Visiting Professor at IIP

Published Tue, Nov 01, 2011
In November we will receive the visit of Professor Avadh Saxena from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. He will be presenting a seminar on November 10, 2011 here at IIP's seminar room. Avadh Saxena is Group Leader of the Condensed Matter and Complex Systems group (T-4)...

Physics by the pool

Published Mon, Oct 17, 2011
The first session was given on 14/9 by me on Chern numbers.  I showed that it can be seen quite easily that the first Chern number, which is an important topological number in several areas of physics like topological insulators or the physics of skyrmions, is a generalization of the winding...

It's Turbulent Over There

Published Thu, Oct 06, 2011
It’s Turbulent Over There“All the stars with their planetary systems are born out of the interstellar medium,” explains UW–Madison astronomy professor Alexander Lazarian who is presently a visiting professor here at the International Institute of Physics, with graduate student Blakesley...

Journal Club

Published Sat, Oct 01, 2011
These meetings are aimed at finding a common ground for future collaborations in High Energy Physics and related fields.As a consequence of the massive production of new lines of research it is almost impossible to follow all the developments in HEP. A viable way out is to coordinate motivated...

20th Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics

Published Sun, Mar 27, 2011
We are glad to announce and invite you to participate in the 20th Latin American Symposium on Solid State Physics - SLAFES XX to take place in Maragogi, AL, March 27 - 31, 2011, Brazil. Abstract submission is open at http://www.slafes-xx.ifsc.usp.br.    The list of confirmed invited speakers...

Postdoctoral position in condensed matter theory at Louisiana State University

Published Tue, Mar 01, 2011
Postdoctoral position in condensed matter theory at Louisiana State University Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in theoretical condensed matter physics in the group of Prof. Ilya Vekhter at Louisiana State University. Our main focus is in the studies of correlated electron...