List of Research Facilities

If you are considering to apply to visit us and do some research work (either as a graduate student or as a Post-Doctoral fellow in (Quantum) Cosmological Implications of Superstring Theory, there are several resources made recently available:

• Office with PC (with ZiP, CD-RW), laser printer, netmeeting facilities and full internet connections to the rest of the universe (well, ... almost)
• LAG seminar room, with 5 more PC's (one with Linux, faster CPU and Mathematica software), a laser printer, a HP-deskjet colour printer, netmeeting facilities
• TV-VCR, OH-projector and screen
• Expanding library on subjects such as (i) Superstring theory, (ii) Gravitation and Cosmology, (iii) Quantum Field Theory, (iv) Astrophysics, and (v) Mathematical Methods
• On-line acess to several scientific journals such as (i) Physical Review D, (ii) Classical and Quantum Gravity, and soon, I hope, (iii) International Journal of Modern Physics D, (iv) General Relativity and Gravitation and (v) Gravitation and Cosmology

You can also use UBI's main library, the Physics Department computer room, the photocopy room and try to get hold of the advantageous accomodation for visitors at the UBI-flats.

Potential short term visitors, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows as well as senior researchers may apply to obtain finantial funding (covering travel and living expenses) from several institutions

• FCT (Portuguese Research Foundation)
• NATO (if you a citizen from Russia, Ukraine or other former ex-Soviet Union country)
• FP6 (plenty of opportunities for the fortunate!)
• Bilateral agreements (depending on your nationality)
• INTAS (if you a citizen from Russia, Ukraine or other former ex-Soviet Union country)
• FLAD (if you are a citizen from USA)
• UBI funds (...menacing dark clouds suggest a very slim hope...)
• CENTRA-IST (... unexpected "smoke signs" beyond the mountain ridges also point to that)
• CERN, ESO, POCTI programmes (requiring that a research project has been previously approved by FCT)
• Gulbenkian Foundation (if you are looking for a widely sought and world-class professorship)

Although not constituting a restricitive or limited summary, I proposed several (varied in both time duration and difficulty ranges) research topics for potential graduate students and post-doctoral researchers as well as collaborative visitors.

And also by returning to my homepage you can retrieve more useful information on our seminar series on "Cosmological Scenarions within String-M-theory".

I do hope the above list and links can enthuse and bring you to our research programmes. If you are interested, do use one of the possible ways to contact me as indicated in my homepage!