Guests of Honor


Andre Koch Torres Assis

Bachelor’s Degree in Physics (State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1983).

Doctor’s Degree (Ph.D.) in Physics (State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1987). PhD thesis: Dispersion relations in a bounded, magnetized and warm plasma. Thesis supervisor: Dr. P. H. Sakanaka.

Post-Doctoral positions:

Professor at the Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology, Institute of Physics of the University of Campinas, Brazil.

Major research interests:

  • Relational mechanics, Mach’s principle and the origin of inertia, absorption of gravity.
  • Weber’s electrodynamics, Ampère’s force between current elements, electric field outside stationary resistive wires carrying steady currents, propagation of electromagnetic signals.
  • Cosmology, Hubble’s law of redshifts, cosmic background radiation, tired light, infinite universe in space and time.
  • History and philosophy of science, physics experiments with simple materials.

Institute of Physics
University of Campinas – UNICAMP
Rua Sergio Buarque de Holanda 777
13083-859 Campinas, SP
Brazil

Phone: (+55) (19) 35215515
Skype: AndreKochAssis
E-mail: assis@ifi.unicamp.br
Website: http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis

List of published books: http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis/books.htm
List of published papers: http://www.ifi.unicamp.br/~assis/papers.htm


Latest Works

Publication of Volume 5 of Weber’s Works on Electrodynamics Translated into English (2024), (Apeiron, Montreal), 418 pages, ISBN: 9781987980363. Wilhelm Weber’s Main Works on Electrodynamics Translated into English:

Commented Translation of Coulomb’s Main Works on Electricity and Magnetism,(2022), (Apeiron, Montreal), 515 pages, ISBN-10: 198798031X and ISBN-13: 978-1987980318. This book contains complete and commented translations, from French to Portuguese, of the main works of Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806).