Art - “Musical perception: current situation of the discipline in higher education music courses” (master’s degree). Candidate: Cristiane Hatsue Vital Otutumi. Advisor: professor Ricardo Goldemberg. The 14th, at 14 pm, at the IA postgraduate course.

Biology - “Reproductive biology of the harvestman Acutisoma proximum (Arachnida: opiliones): alternative mating strategies in males and parental care in females” (master’s degree). Candidate: Bruno Alves Buzatto. Advisor: professor Glauco Machado. On the 14th, at 14 pm, in the IB postgraduate thesis defense room.

“Influence of biotic interactions on the fitness, abundance and defense of colonial ascidians” (PhD). Candidate: Gustavo Muniz Dias. Advisor: professor Luiz Francisco Lembo Duarte. On the 18th, at 13 pm, in the IB postgraduate thesis defense room.

Computing - “Isamap: dynamic binary translation oriented to instruction mapping” (master’s degree). Candidate: Maxwell Monteiro Andrade de Souza. Advisor: professor Guido Costa Souza de Araújo. March 10, 2008, at 9 am, in room 1 in the IC auditorium.

“A decentralized peer-to-peer middleware for workflow computing” (master’s degree). Candidate: Thiago Senador de Siqueira. Advisor: professor Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira. Day 14, at 16 pm, in room 1 of the IC.

Food Engineering - “Production of Cutinase by Fusarium Oxypoum using agro-industrial by-products” (master’s degree). Candidate: Laira Priscila Fraga. Advisor: professor Gabriela Alves Macedo. The 11th, at 9 am, in the FEA main hall.

“Production of ²-1,3-glucanase from Cellulosimicrobium cellulans 191 for enzymatic lysis of the yeast K. marxianus var. bulgaricus and obtaining b-galactosidase” (master’s degree). Candidate: Giselle de Arruda Rodrigues. Advisor: professor Hélia Harumi Sato. Day 19, at 9 am, in the FEA main hall.

Mechanical Engineering - “Simulation by streamlines with compressibility and spatial and dynamic variation of oil composition” (PhD). Candidate: Valcir Tadeu Beraldo. Advisor: professor Denis José Schiozer. March 19, 2008, at 9 am, in room A of the DEP at FEM.

Physics - “Quantitative analysis of atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy images: application to the study of roughness and interdiffusion in InGaP/GaAs quantum well interfaces” (master’s degree). Candidate: Luiz Henrique Galvão Tizei. Advisor: professor Daniel Mario Ugarte. Day 12, at 10 am, in the IFGW postgraduate auditorium.

Humanities - “The focus of criticism: art and truth in the correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin” (doctorate). Candidate: Lucianno Ferreira Gatti. Advisor: professor Jeanne Marie Gagnebin. 10th, at 14 pm, in the IFCH postgraduate room.

“The architecture of otherness: the Portuguese-Brazilian city in travel literature (1783-1845)” (master’s degree). Candidate: Amilcar Torrão Filho. Advisor: professor Maria Stella Martins Bresciani. On the 17th, at 14 pm, in the IFCH postgraduate thesis defense room.

“Yes, we have bananas.” São Paulo industrial cinema: the Vera Cruz film company, film actresses and Eliane Lage” (doctorate). Candidate: Ana Carolina de Moura Delfim Maciel. Advisor: professor Cristina Meneguello. On the 18th, at 14 pm, in the projection room of the IFCH postgraduate building.

Language - “The epigrammatic palimpsest of martial: intertextuality and generation of meanings in the work of the poet of bile” (doctorate). Candidate: Robson Tadeu Cesila. Advisor: professor Paulo Sérgio de Vasconcellos. 10th, at 14pm, in the IEL thesis defense room.

“Discursive markers in Latin: pragmatic and textual considerations about Latin prepositions, interjections and conjunctions in Donato and Prisciano” (master’s degree). Candidate: Fábio da Silva Fortes. Advisor: professor Marcos Aurélio Pereira. March 13th, at 14 pm, in the IEL thesis defense room.

“Criticism, memory and narration - a study of Antonio Candido’s memorial texts” (master’s degree). Candidate: Rodrigo Soares de Cerqueira. Advisor: professor Francisco Foot Hardman. Day 14, at 10 am, in the IEL thesis defense room.

“Construction and elaboration of Machado characters and narrator in Rio de Janeiro tales and midnight stories” (doctorate). Candidate: Cilena Margarete Pereira. Advisor: professor Carlos Eduardo Ornelas Berriel. The 14th, at 14 pm, in the IEL thesis defense room.

“Traces of Spinoza in Goethe’s literary production” (doctorate). Candidate: Marco Antonio Rassolin Fontanella. Advisor: professor Marcio Orlando Seligmann Silva. 14th, at 14pm, at IEL.

“Virtual traces of an (un)announced death: an analysis of suicide discourses on the “Brazilian” orkut page” (master’s degree). Candidate: Monica Vasconcellos Cruvinel. Advisor: professor Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre. March 17, 2008, at 10 am, in the thesis defense room at IEL.

“People in Brazil: who are they in Portuguese as a foreign language textbooks” (master’s degree). Candidate: Cássia Cristina Furlan Marin. Advisor: professor Carmen Zink Bolonhini. Day 19, at 10:30 am, in the IEL thesis defense room.

Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing - “Cosmology and the Maupertuis-Jacobi principle” (doctorate). Candidate: Luciana Aparecida Elias. Advisor: professor Alberto Vazquez Saa. Day 14, at 14 pm, in room 253 at Imecc.

“Homological properties of Hopf algebras” (PhD). Candidate: Cristiane Alexandra Lázaro. Advisor: professor Dessislava Kochloukova. Day 14, at 14 pm, in room 321 at Imecc.

“Tempered distributions and stochastic calculus” (master’s degree). Candidate: Luis Roberto Lucinger de Almeida. Advisor: professor Pedro José Catuogno. On the 17th, at 14 pm, in room 253 at Imecc.

“Solution criteria for the Dirichlet problem” (master’s degree). Candidate: Adilson Eduardo Presoto. Advisor: professor Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo. On the 18th, at 14 pm, in room 253 at Imecc.

“On the number of rational points of curves on finite bodies” (master’s degree). Candidate: Tiago Nunes Castilho. Advisor: professor Fernando Torres. Day 20, at 11 am, in room 253 at Imecc.

Dentistry - “Effect of salivary flow on chewing efficiency and interocclusal distance during speech” (master’s degree). Candidate: Simone Guimarães Farias Gomes. Advisor: professor Renata Cunha Matheus Rodrigues Garcia. Day 11, at 8:30 am, at FOP.

“Clinical and radiographic evaluation of the osteoinductive potential of the sinus membrane in maxillary sinus lifting using only a blood clot. Preliminary study” (doctorate). Candidate: Greison Rabelo de Oliveira. Advisor: professor José Ricardo de Albergaria Barbosa. Day 14, at 09 am, at FOP.

“Prevalence of occlusopathies in children aged 6 and 7 years and its relationship with breastfeeding and social class” (professional master’s degree). Candidate: Luiz Fabiano Bortolo. Advisor: professor Marcelo de Castro Meneghim. Day 19, at 9 am, at FOP.

“Facial injuries in elderly patients treated at the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba at Unicamp” (master’s degree). Candidate: Rafael Grotta Grempel. Advisor: professor Luis Augusto Passari. Day 19, at 14 pm, at FOP.