LHC: Higgs boson, may have been glimpsed

Published Thu, Dec 15, 2011
This week at CERN ATLAS and CMS experiments reported on the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. According to the official report: "The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 116-130 GeV...

A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley and Liacir Lucena

Published Wed, Nov 09, 2011
Perspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems for the Next Decade: A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley and Liacir Lucena Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil The conference program is now available on the main conference...

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...