UFG Scientist Presents New Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics at IIP Seminar

Published Tue, Jul 08, 2025
While thermodynamics describes the behavior of matter based on macroscopic systems, quantum mechanics investigates phenomena in the microscopic scale of the universe. Despite the contrast between these approaches, they are connected through gauge theories, which will be the central topic of a...

IIP mini-course explores the connections between Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

Published Thu, Jul 03, 2025
From July 7 to 11, the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP/UFRN) will host the minicourse “Irreversibility and the Structure of Spacetime”. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members, the classes are free...

IIP/UFRN hosts seminar on fracton quantum spin liquids

Published Tue, Jul 01, 2025
Next Friday (July 4), the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP/UFRN) will welcome researcher Nils Niggemann from the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, for the seminar “Fracton Quantum Spin Liquid on a...

IIP hosts professor of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics to discuss the hierarchy problem in energy scales

Published Tue, Jun 10, 2025
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP/UFRN) will host a lecture next Friday, the 13th, by Professor Manfred Lindner from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. The seminar, titled “Hierarchies and conformal UV completions”, will begin at 11...

IIP researcher receives grant to study dark matter decay at ICTP-Trieste

Published Wed, Jun 04, 2025
Researcher Matheus Paixão began his postdoctoral work with the Particle and Astroparticle Physics group at the International Institute of Physics of UFRN (IIP/UFRN) in July 2024. On Monday (June 2), as a result of his efforts since then, he arrived in Trieste, Italy, to spend a month...

IIP/UFRN hosts lecture by ITA professor on dark matter in compact stars

Published Tue, Jun 03, 2025
Dense stellar systems, such as compact stars, provide ideal pressure conditions for studying the potential effects of dark matter on visible matter. The possible interaction between the two forms of matter will be the central theme of the upcoming seminar at the International Institute of Physics...