An extensive list of potential thesis projects submitted by MAP-fis faculty will be available before the start of the academic year in September 2009. These projects will typically be focused in one of the core areas of the MAP-fis program, that is within the general areas of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Condensed matter Physics and Nanosciences, Theoretical and Computations Physics, Metrology and Oceanography or Optics and Photonics.