What is PICME?
The Scientific Initiation Program (PICME) is a program that offers university students who have excelled in the Mathematical Olympiads (OBMEP or OBM medalists) the opportunity to pursue advanced studies in Mathematics simultaneously with their degree, giving them access to a solid mathematical education that will enrich their professional development.
For more information visit: https://picme.obmep.org.br/
Who can take part?
Mathematical Olympiad medal-winning students regularly enrolled in IMPA Tech undergraduate programs.
How to participate?
If you are an OBMEP or OBM medalist and are regularly enrolled on the Innovation and Technology Undergraduate Mathematics Course, you must apply via the PICME portal.
Applications are announced by the general coordination of PICME via your e-mail address registered on the PICME portal.
The selection process for PICME/IMPATech scholarship holders is subject to the quota assigned to the institution and depends on the student’s academic performance.
Scholars must take one of the following courses directed study topicsoffered by professors from IMPA Tech or partner institutions.
Participation in directed studies by IMPA Tech students who are not PICME scholars is allowed for second term students with excellent academic performance (CR ≥ 8.0), as well as those enrolled in later terms.
These activities can be validated as hours of complementary activities, as provided for in the regulations.
Check the offer of directed study topics by period:
Period 2026.1
The summary of each proposal can be consulted by IMPA Tech students at this LINK.
Exponential and Parameterized Exact Algorithms
Ueverton Souza
Analysis in metric and vector spaces
Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira
Candido Portinari’s linguistic signature
Cilene Rodrigues, Emilio Vital Brazil, Asla Medeiros e Sá, Uéverton Souza and Rodrigo Ribeiro
Numerical Cognition in the Primate Order: A Theoretical and Experimental Study
Cilene Rodrigues
Differential forms and Stokes’ theorem
Vinicius Ramos
Illustrating Mathematics
Asla Medeiros e Sá
Geoacoustic inversion using the peeling method II
Pavel Petrov
LLMs Under the Microscope: Foundations, Functioning and Implications of Large-Scale Language Models
Emilio Vital Brazil
Martingales
Milton Jara
Statistical modeling of infectious diseases
Leonardo Bastos
Coagulation Models
Milton Jara
Semantic representations during visual imagination from fMRI data
Tiago Bortolini and Jorge Moll
On the analytical aspects of linear transformations and their implications
Pavel Petrov
Optimal Mass Transport (theory)
Augusto Gerolin
