BASIC INFO

Transfers

Shuttle transfers between Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis and the conference Hotel will be provided upon arrival on October 7/8 and upon departure on October 11/12. The departure place and times of shuttle-busses will be announced at a later stage via email.
If you wish to extend your stay in Brazil and you arrive earlier or depart later than the Symposium Period, please make your individual travel arrangements.

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Health and safety tips

Although in October mosquitoes are not particularly active and dengue fever is not endemic in Florianopolis, we recommend that you use repellent and wear long pants and closed shoes, especially on the cultural tour.
The Congress is not liable for personal injury of conference delegates (or any accompanying persons) during or as a result of the event. It is advisable to travel with a valid travel health insurance.

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Smoking policy

In the state of Santa Catarina smoking is prohibited and subject to fines at most places (basically, you can only smoke inside your own house or in an open area). There are no smoking-bedrooms at the Slaviero hotel.

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Poster info

For your convenience, you may send your file to Vanessa at comercial03@postmix.com.br and have your poster ready when you arrive. Posters must be sent at least 2 days prior to delivery date. Suggested size is 80x120cm (standard) vertical. For this size cost is around R60,00 (paid in the Brazilian currency – Reais R$), with top and bottom rods and a cord to hang it (this is important because we will hang posters in hooks).
Please note that participants must remove the poster at Postmix, which is a 2-minute walk from the Congress.

Postmix
R. João Pio Duarte Silva, 42
Córrego Grande, Florianópolis – SC
+55 (48) 3234-3999

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Accommodations

The participants will be staying at the Slaviero Executive Hotel, located within walking distance from UFSC and POLO.
A block of single hotel rooms will be reserved for all symposium attendees. Your rooms will be direct-billed to CAPES for the following dates: arrival October 8 / departure October 11 (October 12 for OC Members 2019). Please note that any additional nights apart from the dates listed will have to be covered by the individual participant. You will also be responsible for additional charges, e. g. if you wish a double room, or for any incidentals, upon check-out. To avoid duplicate reservations, please do not contact the hotel directly.
Costs for meals (coffee and dinner) as indicated in the conference program will also be covered for all participants.

Slaviero Hotel
R. Des. Vítor Lima, 380 - Trindade, Florianópolis – SC
+55 (48) 3203-1000
www.slavierohoteis.com.br

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Cultural tour

On Wednesday, October 10, we will have a sea tour that will go from the Hercilio Luz bridge to the Fortress of Santo Antônio and to the Anhatomirim Island (Fortress of Santa Cruz).
The tour will be hosted by The Scuna Sul Company, pioneer in maritime tours, with 33 years of experience and throughout these years recognized by the quality and safety in its services provided. It counts on a team of qualified professionals and its leaders are shipbuilders, builders and naval designers with world-wide recognition, through this presents wonderful itinerary for you to know Florianópolis, islands and coasts through the sea.
Visit Scuna Sul website.

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Barbecue restaurant

Barbecue is one of the most famous Brazilian specialties. On Wednesday, October 10, our dinner will be at Churrascaria Ataliba, a famous Southern Brazilian style "rodízio" (all you can eat) barbecue restaurant. The restaurant offers also a salad bar and different types of vegetarian pasta.

Churrascaria Ataliba
Rod. José Carlos Daux, 3008
Saco Grande, Florianópolis - SC
+55 (48) 3333-0990
www.ataliba.com.br

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Florianópolis

Situated on the island of Santa Catarina and serving as the state capital, Florianópolis is one of Brazil’s major tourist destinations. With a population of almost 500.000 inhabitants it is the second most populous city in the state of Santa Catarina after Joinville. Besides its beautiful beaches and islands at the coastline, there are many mountains and mangrove forests that surround the city. Florianópolis is also a popular base for island excursions that have a more remote, tranquil setting.

The island was originally inhabited by the Cariho American Indians when the Portuguese arrived in the 17th century. In 1726 the town Vila do Desterro was officially founded and eventually grew into the capital of the island, known today as Florianopolis. Today the port has much less activity as it did during colonial times, but the city remains a thriving commercial and tourist center. During the past decade technology and software development firms also experienced strong growth, and today Information Technology services are one of the top revenue generators besides international tourism. Several technology centers are spread around Florianópolis, making the city an important pole in this economic sector.

Today, the northern part of the island is characterized by modern infrastructure and architecture, whereas the western and southern sides still reflect the 18th century colonial times. While strolling through the narrow streets and original neighborhoods of central Florianopolis, visitors can see some great architectural and historical highlights such as the old quays, a covered market built in 1898 that is sitting on the waterfront. At the Praca 15 de Novembro, the city’s greatest cultural square, many local artisans are selling their handicrafts. The neoclassical Catedral Metropolitana at its north end is one of the most attractive and important churches in the area and well worth a visit for its excellent works of art on the interior. Nearby is the magnificent Palacio Cruz e Souza, which was once the governor's residence. Inside it houses the Museu Historico de Santa Catarina, which displays a bland of baroque and neoclassical art, décor, and furniture.

Metamaterials to Programmable Materials

Metamaterials are artificial materials composed of designed functional building blocks, the so-called meta-atoms. "Meta" means "beyond", indicating that metamaterials can have exotic properties not supported by any natural materials. Initially, metamaterial research was largely focussed on tailoring of optical properties, however, in the last couple of years the concept was extended to mechanical, seismic and acoustic metamaterials among others. While most metamaterials realized so far were static, exciting new opportunities arise for dynamically tunable implementations of metamaterials. This leads to the concept of programmable or smart, materials, which have the ability to adjust their physical properties in a programmable fashion based on an external stimulus or a user input. In this session, we will discuss the state of the art of metamaterials and programmable materials, and explore future concepts, such as meta-atoms for individual or multifunctional combined applications such as sensing, actuation, computation, information processing and/or other related tasks.


Organizers:
Andréa de Camargo
(São Carlos Institute of Physics, IFSC/USP, São Carlos)
Isabelle Staude
(Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)


Controlled Nanomaterials as a New Chapter in Plasmonic Catalysis
Pedro H. C. Camargo
(Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo)


One- and Bi-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Biological and Chemical Applications:
An Ab initio Study
Solange Binotto Fagan
(Franciscan University Center Santa Maria)


Nanotools and Nanomaterials Built from DNA
Tim Liedl
(Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)


Nonlinear Interaction of Light with Artificial Surfaces
Thomas Zentgraf
(Department of Physics, University of Paderborn)

BRAGFOST 2019

The BRAGFOST 2019 symposium is scheduled from September 5 to 8, 2019 in Munich. The four topical sessions for the 2019 symposium are:

• Circular Economy
• Resilience Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Genetic Engineering of Living Systems