The 1st BRAZIL-USA WORKSHOP FOR BLACK PHYSICISTS AND PHYSICISTS will be the first academic gathering of Black physicists from Brazil and the United States. The goal of the conference is to provide mentoring opportunities, increase participants' access to recruiters, offer opportunities for social networking, and inform the broader physics community about best practices that will be gathered during and after the meeting. The conference allows students to have close interactions with professional physicists and gain exposure to high-quality researchers and scientific presentations. In addition to being the meeting that promotes the persistence of underrepresented physics students in academia, the conference will host high-level research lectures, offer opportunities for peer-to-peer interactions, and allow students the opportunity to gain exposure to the scientific community.
The 1st WORKSHOP FOR PHYSICS AND BLACK PHYSICISTS BRAZIL-USA will consist of three days of educational sessions, exhibitions, interactive social networking opportunities, as well as a student career fair and poster sessions on cutting-edge issues related to current trends in physics and science.
The event will also address issues related to the promotion of justice, diversity, and inclusion, as well as ensuring equity and human rights. It will promote diversity and inclusion policies, following a philosophy of equality that creates opportunities and treatment for all people regardless of race (color), gender, and religion, fostering an atmosphere that encourages free expression and the exchange of scientific and educational ideas. The event will discuss the structures and systems that create and reinforce inequalities, and propose solutions to replace them with systems that create opportunities for diverse groups of people. Diversity includes, among other characteristics, ethnic heritage, race, skin color, class, geographic origin, nationality, language, culture, field of study/work/research, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical abilities and disabilities.