IIP/UFRN awards medals to Ceará winners of the Physics Tournament for Girls

Published Wed, May 14, 2025
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP/UFRN) held a ceremony last Friday (9), at the Legislative Assembly of Ceará (Alece), to award 56 medals from the latest edition of the Physics Tournament for Girls (TFM). Created to encourage the interest of elementary and high school girls...

Professor from the University of Liverpool talks about new technologies to detect dark matter at IIP/UFRN

Published Mon, May 12, 2025
Although it constitutes a large part of the universe, dark matter—unlike visible matter, which is made up of protons and electrons—cannot be observed through traditional methods. To discuss new ways of detecting it, the International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP/UFRN) will host,...

IIP/UFRN seminar discusses the connection between conformal field theories and the quantum structure of black holes

Published Tue, May 06, 2025
Next Friday, May 9th, at 11 a.m., the International Institute of Physics (IIP/UFRN) will host another seminar in its auditorium. The guest speaker is Professor André Alves Lima, from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), who will present the talk “Conformal field theories and...

IIP/UFRN seminar explores Takesaki duality and its possible applications in Physics

Published Tue, Apr 22, 2025
With applications that go beyond mathematics, von Neumann algebras play an important role also in theoretical physics. One of the concepts that emerged from this theory—Takesaki duality—will be the central topic of the next seminar hosted by the International Institute of Physics at...

IIP/UFRN offers course on Particle Physics for high school and undergraduate students

Published Wed, Apr 09, 2025
The International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP/UFRN) is now accepting applications for a free scientific initiation course in Particle Physics. The classes, which will take place from May to September 2025, in a hybrid format, aim to spark the...

Charged lepton flavour violation to be discussed in upcoming IIP seminar

Published Mon, Apr 07, 2025
Although never observed in practice, charged lepton flavor violation is predicted by various theories beyond the Standard Model. This Friday, April 11th, the topic will be discussed in a seminar at the International Institute of Physics (IIP/UFRN). Conducted by postdoctoral researcher Gabriela...