Program
| November 17, 2014 – UC Berkeley CITRIS-Banatao Conference Room and Kvamme Atrium |
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| Start | Duration | Activity |
| 08:30 | 00:30 | Welcome Coffee |
| 09:00 | 00:30 | Opening Session Ron Gronsky, Faculty Assistant to the Chancellor for International Relations (UCB) |
| 09:30 | 00:45 | Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP Scientific Director Science and Technology in São Paulo, Brazil  |
| 10:15 | 00:15 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | 00:15 | Break |
| Theme 1: Energy | ||
| 10:45 | 00:20 | Marie-Anne van Sluys, Biology Institute (USP) Energy security: BIOEN Research Program and the Sugarcane genome |
| 11:05 | 00:20 | David Zilberman, Agricultural Economics(UCB) |
| 11:25 | 00:20 | Marcia Azanha Moraes, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ-USP) Ethanol from sugarcane in Brasil. From state intervention to a free market |
| 11:45 | 00:20 | Ana Claudia Arias, Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC) – UCB |
| 12:05 | Lunch | |
| Theme 2: State-Society Relations (Urban Studies, Democracy, Violence, Growth, Higher Education) | ||
| 14:00 | 00:20 | Sergio Adorno, Center for the Study of Violence (USP) Building democracy daily: human rights, Violence and institutional trust |
| 14:20 | 00:20 | James Holston, Social Apps Lab at CITRIS (UCB) Challenges for Democracy 3.0 and Smarter Cities |
| 14:40 | 00:20 | Marta Arretche, Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEBRAP and USP) Democracy and inequality-reduction in Brazil |
| 15:00 | 00:20 | John Aubrey Douglass, Center for Studies in Higher Education (UCB) – with Renato Pedrosa (UNICAMP) and Igor Chirikov (SERU/CSHE) Seeking a Comparative Lens: Undergraduate and Graduate Education in California and Brazil |
| 15:20 | 00:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:40 | 00:20 | Roundtable discussion and closing for Day 1 |
November 18, 2014 - UC Berkeley Overall themes: (1) advanced manufacturing and materials, (2) infrastructure and energy |
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| Start | Duration | Activity |
| 08:30 | 00:30 | Welcome Coffee |
| Theme 1: Advanced manufacturing and materials – session 1 | ||
| 09:00 | 00:20 | Tarek Zohdi, Mechanical Engineering (UCB) Modeling and simulation of advanced manufacturing of new multifunctional materials |
| 09:20 | 00:20 | Edgar Dutra Zanotto, Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCAR (USP) Glass-ceramics: a glorious past and bright future |
| 09:40 | 00:20 | David Dornfeld, Mechanical Engineering (UCB) Sustainability as a driver for innovation in advanced manufacturing |
| 10:00 | 00:20 | Eduardo Campello, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (USP) Particle-based computational methods for the simulation of discontinuous media and discrete materials |
| 10:20 | 00:25 | Break |
| Theme 1: Advanced manufacturing and materials – session 2 | ||
| 10:45 | 00:20 | Hugo Resende, Lightweight Structures Laboratory (IPT) Challenges for the Lightweight Strutures Laboratory in Brazil |
| 11:05 | 00:20 | Paul Wright, Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (UCB) |
| 11:25 | 00:20 | Mark Asta, Computational Materials Science (UCB) |
| 11:45 | 13:45 | Lunch |
| Theme 2: Infrastructure and energy – session 1 | ||
| 13:45 | 00:20 | Paulo Monteiro, Civil and Environmental Engineering (UCB) Multi-functional energy-efficient structural materials |
| 14:05 | 00:20 | Julio R. Meneghini, Departament of Mechanical Engineering (POLI – USP) Wake instabilities issues: from circular cylinders to stalled airfoils |
| 14:25 | 00:15 | John Coates, Fossil Fuels (UCB) |
| 14:45 | 00:15 | Coffee break |
| Theme 2: Infrastructure and energy – session 2 | ||
| 15:00 | 01:20 | Philippe Remy Bernard Devloo, Structures – Civil Engineering (UNICAMP) NeoPZ – An object oriented framework for the development of finite element algorithms |
| 15:20 | 00:20 | Khalid Mosalam, Civil and Environmental Engineering (UCB) Recent advances in hybrid simulations with applications to continuum structures, energy infrastructure and building envelopes |
| 15:40 | 00:20 | Paulo M. Pimenta, Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (POLI-USP) Contributions to computational mechanics from our research group at USP |
| Panel Discussion: Higher Education in California and São Paulo: perspective of International Collaborations | ||
| 16:15 | 00:15 | Renato H.L. Pedrosa, Department of Science and Technology Policy (UNICAMP) Higher Education in São Paulo: recent trends and opportunities |
| 16:30 | 00:15 | Judson King, Center for Studies in Higher Education (UCB) |
| 16:45 | 00:15 | Oscar Dubon, (UCB) |
| 17:00 | 00:15 | Ron Gronsky, Materials Science & Engineering (UCB) |
| 17:15 | 00:15 | Closing of the workshop in Berkeley |
| 17:15 | 00:15 | Brazilian Nature – Mystery and Destiny Exhibition Venue: Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium (UCB) |
November 19, 2014 – San Francisco California Academy of Sciences and Exploratorium Visits – by invitation only |
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November 20, 2014 - UC Davis The Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts |
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| Start | Duration | Activity |
| 08:30 | 00:40 | Welcome coffee |
| 09:10 | Opening Session: FAPESP International Strategy Chair: Adrienne Martín, Interim Vice Provost (UCD Global Affairs) |
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| 09:10 | 00:10 | Welcome to UCD Ralph Hexter, Provost (UCD) |
| 09:20 | 00:45 | Opening Speech Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP Scientific Director Science and Technology in São Paulo, Brazil |
| 10:05 | 00:10 | Harris A. Lewin, Vice Chancellor for Research (UCD) Research at UCD and Program Overview |
| 10:00 | 00:15 | Discussion |
| 10:15 | 00:15 | Break |
| 10:30 | Sustainable Energy Research Chair: Bryan Jenkins, Energy Efficiency Center (UCD) |
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| 10:30 | 00:20 | Sonia Yeh, Institute of Transportation Studies (UCD) Global Transportation Growth and the Role of Low Carbon Transport Policies |
| 10:50 | 00:20 | Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Biology Institute (USP) Bioenergy / biofuels: sugarcane genomics |
| 11:10 | 00:20 | Ruihong Zhang, Biological & Agricultural Engineering (UCD) Biodigestion & Biogas Energy |
| 11:30 | 00:15 | Q+A |
| 11:45 | 02:00 | Break / West Village Lunch – by invitation |
| 13:45 | Environmental & Marine Sciences Chair: Mark Schwartz, John Muir Institute of the Environment (UCD) |
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| 13:45 | 00:20 | Luciano Martins Verdade, Isotopic Ecology Lab / Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA – USP) Monitoring “biocomplexity”: The complexity of processes as drives of the diversity of biological patterns |
| 14:05 | 00:20 | Rick Grosberg, Coastal & Marine Sciences Institute (UCD) Dispersal, connectivity, and the challenge of sustainable fisheries in the sea |
| 14:25 | 00:20 | Edmo Campos, Oceanography Institute (USP) Climate related research in the South Atlantic – observations and modeling |
| 14:45 | 00:15 | Q+A |
| 15:00 | 00:30 | Break |
| 15:30 | Agriculture & Food Research Chair: Marcia Azanha Moraes, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” (ESALQ-USP) |
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| 15:30 | 00:20 | Paulo Mazzafera, Plant Science (UNICAMP) Control of lignin biosynthesis in sugarcane |
| 15:50 | 00:20 | Richard Michelmore, The Genome Center (UCD) The UC Davis Genome Center and Generic Plant Genomics |
| 16:10 | 00:20 | Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento, Cooperative Center of Environmental Engineering (USP) Industrial process chemical engineering – water treatment, photochemical processes, biotechnology |
| 16:30 | 00:20 | Walter Leal, Molecular and Cellular Biology (UCD) From genome to deliverables in agriculture and medical entomology |
| 16:50 | 00:20 | Bernadette D.G.M. Franco, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (USP) Food safety challenges in the 21st century |
| 17:10 | 00:20 | Josette Lewis, World Food Center (UCD) World Food Center: Connecting Research to Impact |
| 17:30 | 00:15 | Q+A |
| 17:45 | 00:15 | Break |
| 18:00 | 00:45 | Brazilian Nature – Mystery and Destiny Exhibition Venue: Mondavi Center Atrium |
November 21, 2014 - UC Davis |
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| Start | Duration | Activity |
| 08:30 | 00:30 | Welcome Coffee |
| 09:00 | Opening Address | |
| Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (UCD) | ||
| Consul General – Ambassador Eduardo Prisco Paraíso Ramos | ||
| 09:20 | 01:00 | Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities in University-Industry Collaborative Research: Brazil-USA & Industry-Academis Chair: Associate Vice Chancellor Paul Dodd (UCD Interdisciplinary Research & Strategic Initiatives) |
| Cleve Justis, Executive Director Child Family Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (UCD) | ||
| Dushyant Pathak, Associate Vice Chancellor Technology Management & Corporate Relations (UCD) | ||
| Hugo Resende, Director Lightweight Structures Laboratory (IPT) | ||
| Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director (FAPESP) | ||
| Ricardo H.R. Castro, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (UCD) | ||
| Roxanne Duan (MedImmune) | ||
| Q+A | ||
| 10:20 | 00:10 | Break |
| 10:30 | 01:55 | Cancer & Inflammatory Disease Studies Chair: Harris A. Lewin, Vice Chancellor for Research (UCD) |
| 10:30 | 00:20 | Roger Chammas, Cancer Biology (USP) Adapting to a move: galectin-3 roles in cancer |
| 10:50 | 00:20 | Luis Carvajal-Carmona (UCD: Genome Center, Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine) Cancer genetics studies in European and Latin American populations |
| 11:10 | 00:20 | Silvia R. Rogatto, Molecular Oncology, Genetics (UNESP) PHF21B as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas |
| 11:30 | 00:20 | Bruce German, Foods for Health Institute, Food Science & Technology (UCD) The role of microbiota in human health: Lessons from human milk |
| 11:50 | 00:20 | Licio Augusto Velloso, Medical Sciences Faculty(UNICAMP) Dysfunction on the hypothalamus in obesity |
| 12:10 | 00:15 | Q+A |
| 12:25 | 01:20 | Lunch – Mondavi Center with Poster Session |
| 13:45 | 01:20 | Biomedical Science Research Chair: James Hildreth, Dean of UCD, College of Biological Sciences |
| 13:45 | 00:20 | Hernandes F. Carvalho, Structural and Functional Biology (UNICAMP) Cell-cell interactions in the prostate gland |
| 14:05 | 00:20 | Julie Sutcliffe, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging (UCD) Molecular imaging at UC Davis: bench to bedside |
| 14:25 | 00:20 | Rosana Bassani, Center of Biomedical Engineering (CEB-UNICAMP) Multidisciplinary investigation at the Center for Biomedical Engineering (CEB) of UNICAMP |
| 14:45 | 00:20 | Crystal Ripplinger, Pharmacology (UCD) Cellular Calcium Signaling in Cardiac Arrhythmias |
| 15:05 | 00:20 | Q+A and Break |
| 15:25 | Social Sciences & Humanities Chair: Euclides de Mesquita Neto (FAPESP/UNICAMP) |
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| 15:45 | 00:20 | Leopoldo Bernucci (FAPESP – UOIP) Amazonia as Palimpsest: readings and misreadings in travel books |
| 15:45 | 00:20 | Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Literary Theory (UNICAMP) Framing Theory from Brazil |
| 16:05 | 00:20 | Ann Stevens, Center for Poverty Research (UCD) |
| 16:25 | 00:30 | Panel Discussion: Perpectives on Communication & Education in Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, and Technology Leopoldo Bernucci (UCD: Spanish) Fabio Akcelrud Durão (UNICAMP: Literary theory) Ann Stevens (UCD: Center for Poverty Research) Marta Arretche (USP & CEBRAP Center for Metropolitan Studies) TBC Mario Biogioli (UCD: School of Law) |
| 16:55 | Closing Session | |
| 16:55 | 00:15 | Harris Lewin, Vice Chancellor for Research (UCD) |
| 17:10 | 00:15 | Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP Scientific Director |
| 17:25 | End of activities for the day | |