Brazilian Academy of Sciences holds diplomas for new members at the IIP

Published Fri, Dec 16, 2022
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) held this Thursday (December 15) the graduation of its new members, elected for the Northeast and Espírito Santo regions, selected for the period 2022-2026. Among the graduates was Professor Rafael Chaves, research leader in quantum information at the...

PASCCO School grantees participate in a special program at the IIP

Published Tue, Dec 06, 2022
  During the Spring Meeting of the Brazilian Physics Society, held in September 2022, the students Paula Pires Ferreira and Maria Luisa Cortez, participated in the event as selected candidates from the PASCCO (Particles, Astroparticles, Fields and Cosmology) School of Physics. This special...

IIP-UFRN hosts workshop on DFT and QT

Published Mon, Nov 07, 2022
Between the 21st and 25th of November, the International Institute of Physics of UFRN will hold the international workshop Quantum Technologies Meet Density-Functional Theory, event that will bring together national and international experts for a series of discussions on intersections between the...

Herch Moyses Nussenzveig, 1932-2022

Published Sat, Nov 05, 2022
It is with deep sorrow that we receive the news of the death of Professor Herch Moyses Nussenzveig, professor emeritus and researcher at the Institute of Physics at UFRJ and author of the most popular books on basic physics written in Brazil. Born in 1932, the young Moyses dreamed of a career as a...

IIP-UFRN holds a virtual seminar on the use of artificial intelligence in the study of proteins

Published Thu, Oct 27, 2022
  Next Monday, October 31, the International Institute of Physics at UFRN will hold the virtual seminar “Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AI”, presented by Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, researcher at DeepMind – a company specializing in artificial intelligence...

IIP researcher is featured on the SBF website

Published Mon, Oct 24, 2022
Professor Farinaldo Queiroz, research leader from the Particle and Astroparticle Physics group at the International Institute of Physics of UFRN, was featured on the website of the Brazilian Physics Society in an interview about the 2nd SBF Spring Meeting, an event that took place for the...