Geometry at the Quantum Scale, 2024th Edition

Marcos Duarte Maia was born in October 1940 in the Brazilian state of North Rio Grande. He studied Engineering at the State University of Goiás (Brazil) from 1962 to 1964 and obtained a BSc degree in Physics in 1966 at the University of Brasilia under the supervision of Jayme Tiomno. He moved to London in 1967 to work with Hermann Bondi on gravitational waves as a research student at the Kings’s College of the University of London. Soon after, Bondi moved to the ESRO program in Vienna, and his supervision was transferred to Professor Clive Kilmister. In 1971, he defended a thesis on the subject of Eddington’s Fundamental Theory. After his return to Brazil, he was hired by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Brasilia in 1971, where he stayed for the next 20 years, before moving to the Physics Institute of the same university. In 1985 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle; a visiting Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical physics at Santa Barbara, California, and a Visiting Researcher at Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC). Finally in 1993 he was a visiting Scientist at the NASA-Fermilab Astrophysics Center near Chicago. His present position is that of Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Physics of the University of Brasilia.

Edmundo M. Monte has a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil, a Master’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences from UFPB, Brazil, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil, with a thesis in General Relativity. He held a post-doctorate position in Relativity at the Department of Geometry and Topology, Granada University (UGR), Spain, and a Visiting Professorship with a Mathematics Research Fellowship at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy; He was also a Visiting Professor at UGR, Spain. He entered the UFPB through competition as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at UFPB. He is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Physics at UFPB, João Pessoa, Brazil. His research experience is in the area of Physics and Mathematics, with an emphasis on Fundamental Geometric Problems in Spacetime Immersions, working mainly on the following topics: immersions of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, space-time immersions, geometry and topology of space-times, special and general relativity, cosmology and gravitation.