====== Marcio Argollo Homepage ======
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* BSc. (Mar 93 - Dec 97) - [[ http://www.uff.br | Universidade Federal Fluminense ]] - [[http://www.if.uff.br |Physics]]\\
* MSc. (Mar 98 - Oct 99) - UFF - Physics, Statistical Physics.\\
* PhD. (Nov.99 - Jan.02) - UFF - Physics, Statistical Physics.\\
* Postdoctoral research associate (Feb. 02 - April 02), [[ http://www.cbpf.br | CBPF ]], at Constantino Tsallis' group.\\
* Postdoctoral research associate (May 02 - Nov. 05), University of Notre Dame, prof. [[ http://www.barabasilab.com/ | László Barabási's ]] group.\\
* Visiting Professor (Jan. 05 - Aug. 05), UFF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.\\
* Associate Professor (Dec. 06- ), [[http://www.if.uff.br |IF-UFF]], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
You can find my CV [[http://lattes.cnpq.br/2172046254229187|here]].
During my MSc years we developed a strategy to increase pattern recognition in attractor neural networks. The idea was to reduce the similarity of memories, replacing each one with the pattern resulting from successive iterations of a (pseudo)chaotic cellular automaton rule. We also proposed a new dynamics that improved the Hopfield-Tank approach for solving the traveling salesman problem. Advantages of a neural-network implementation of the latter problem are their direct in-silico and optical implementations.
My PhD thesis is divided in two parts. One deals with small-world networks, their geometric properties and the critical behavior of the average shortest-path length near zero addition of long-range bonds. We prove that the transition from regular to random behavior is first order. On the second part of the thesis nonequilibrium phase transitions are studied. We define a lattice model of structural rigidity and a translation of the latter problem into a reaction-diffusion one, finding numerical estimates of the set of critical exponents of the model.
===== Research =====
I have been introduced to the fascinating field of statistical mechanics of complex systems at the beginning of my undergrad years. I have learned many interesting problems like the traveling salesman problem, memory storage and retrieval in attractor neural networks, complex networks and other biologically-inspired problems.
Some of these studies resulted in [[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hdWhavkAAAAJ|publications]].
Currently, I take part in a team effort developing [[http://pseudomonas.procc.fiocruz.br|a computational model for Pseudomonas aeruginosa]], a multi-drug resistant pathogen associated with a broad spectrum of infections in humans. My focus is on the reconstruction of its metabolic network.
===== Teaching =====
== Física Computacional - GFIXXXX ==
* Bibliografia e listas de exercícios - [[http://cursos.if.uff.br/fiscomp-0210/|2010-2]]
* Bibliografia e listas de exercícios - [[http://cursos.if.uff.br/fiscomp-0111/|2011-1]]
* Bibliografia e listas de exercícios - [[http://cursos.if.uff.br/fiscomp-0210/|2011-2]]
== Semana da Física 2009 ==
* Mini-tutorial [[marcio:semana2009|"Ferramentas de Computação em Física"]]
== Termodinâmica ==
* [[marcio:home:thermo|Maxwell construction and the Van der Waals equation]]\\
== Escola do CBPF 2010 ==
* {{:marcio:cbpf2010-aula1.pdf|Aula 1}} (Referencias e adicionais {{:referencias_aula1.tgz|aqui}}\\
* {{:marcio:cbpf2010-aula2.pdf|Aula 2}} (Referencias e adicionais {{:marcio:referencias_aula2.tgz|aqui}}\\
* {{:marcio:cbpf2010-aula3.pdf|Aula 3}}\\
* {{:marcio:cbpf2010-aula4.pdf|Aula 4}}\\
===== Musica =====
__**Horace Silver Quintet & Elvin Jones Trio 1968 (On Jazz Omkring Midnat - Denmark TV)**__[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dX28TGFLwY|(link)]]
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**Magic moment begins at 8:15 with Horace Silver, followed with perfection by Billy Cobham at 11:10** \\
**Horace Silver Quintet:** \\
Piano: Horace Silver\\
Trumpet: Bill Hardman\\
Tenor Sax: Bennie Maupin\\
Bass: John Williams\\
Drums: Billy Cobham\\
**Elvin Jones Trio:**\\
Drums: Elvin Jones\\
Sax; Flute: Joe Farrel\\
Bass: Jimmy Garrison
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__**Mahavishnu Orchestra live 1972, Syracuse University**__ [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTXjmVd6AI|(link)]]
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**Things start to get vicious at 20:50**\\
John McLaughlin - guitars\\
Billy Cobham - drums\\
Rick Laird - bass\\
Jan Hammer - keys\\
Jerry Goodman - violin
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**From Billy Cobham's [[http://www.billycobham.com/html/biography.php|personal website:]]** In 1992, Cobham was engaged by UNICEF to work with autistic outpatients and street children in the city of Santos (São Paulo) Brazil, in a musical project which lasted for several years.\\
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Marcio Argollo Ferreira de Menezes\\
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense\\
Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n\\
Niterói,RJ (24210-346)\\
E-mail: [[marcio@mail.if.uff.br]]\\
TEL: (55 21) 2629-5773\\
FAX: (55 21) 2629-5887\\
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