 Education - “The nights of the dictatorship and the days of utopia... The exile, education and journeys of Elza Freire in the years 1964 to 1979” (doctorate). Candidate: Nima Imaculada Spigolon. Advisor: professor Débora Mazza. May 13, 2014, at 9:30 am, in the defense room of the Postgraduate Program, Block A, at FE.

 Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Planning - “Analysis of the thermal performance of naturally ventilated residential buildings: an adaptive approach” (master’s degree). Candidate: Francisco Massucci Silveira. Advisor: professor Lucila Chebel Labaki. May 13, 2014, at 10 am, in room CA-22 of the FEC CPG.

 Computing - Graph bag: definition, implementation and validation in classification tasks” (master’s degree). Candidate: Fernanda Brandão Silva. Advisor: professor Ricardo da Silva Torres. May 16, 2014, at 10:30 am, in room 85 of the IC.

 Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing - “Means: arithmetic, geometric and harmonic” (professional master’s degree). Candidate: Jackson da Cruz Pereira. Advisor: professor Antônio Carlos do Patrocinio. May 14, 2014, at 10 am, in room 253 at Imecc.

“Combinatorics and probability with applications in geometry teaching” (professional master’s degree). Candidate: Vicente Mastropaulo Neto. Advisor: professor Antônio Carlos do Patrocinio. May 14, 2014, at 16 pm, in room 253 at Imecc.

“Analysis of a finite difference scheme with an adaptive spatial operator” (master’s degree). Candidate: Alexandre William Camargo. Advisor: professor Lúcio Tunes dos Santos. May 16, 2014, at 10 am, in room 253 at Imecc.

“Estimates for n-widths of Sobolev Classes on the sphere” (master’s degree). Candidate: Henrique Costa dos Reis. Advisor: professor Sergio Antonio Tozoni. May 16, 2014, at 14 pm, in room 253 at Imecc.

 Chemistry - “Molecular aspects of lignocellulosic biomass degradation: enzyme dynamics and nanoarchitecture of plant cell walls” (PhD). Candidate: Rodrigo Leandro Silveira. Advisor: professor Munir Salomão Skaf. May 12, 2014, at 9 am, in the IQ mini auditorium.

“Development and validation of analytical methods for the determination of multi-residue pesticides in cucumber crops, using ultra-performance liquid chromatography” (master’s degree). Candidate: Luana Cristina Macedo. Advisor: professor Isabel Cristina Sales Fontes Jardim. May 14, 2014, at 9 am, in the IQ mini auditorium.