Dados Pessoais (Personal Info)
Outreach activities
This is mainly done in PORTUGUESE.... however, I will list briefly what I do and will leave the links to those interested in browsing through my native language.
Talks and seminars in schools and at INPE´s miniobservatory.
Organization and teaching, since 1998, in the Introductory Course of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Curso de Introdução à Astronomia e Astrofísica - CIAA), for elementary and high school teachers and undergraduate students. I have taught Cosmology since 1998 and, in 2006, I was invited to teach The Solar System chapter. The material I prepared (text, PPT and some workshop material - all in portuguese, sorry...) can be found here.
Following my hobby as a guitar player, I prepared a text about the Physics of Music and presented it in some Meetings in Physics Education in Brazil. The text can be found here. Coordination, with Drs. João Batista Canalle, Jaime da Rocha and Prof. Nuricel Villalonga Aguilera, of the Brazilian team that goes to the International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO), in 2002 (Caucasus - Nizhnij Arkhiz), 2003 (Stockholm, Sweden), 2004 (Simeiz, Crymea - South of Ukraine) and 2006 (Mumbai, India).
Production of some astronomy teaching tutorials with Jatila van der Veen, from UCSB. Go visit her CMB website. It is great!!!
Participation in the Teaching Comission of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (CESAB), from 1996 to 2000.
Interesting papers
Some of them I really enjoyed, some others I wrote myslef...
The material used for the presentation about astrology and science can be found here. There is a number of good papers in English in this link.
The purpose of Astronomy (Emanuel Davoust). The title is self-explanatory.