IIP Colloquium with Philippe Courteille

Published Wed, Nov 08, 2023
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIF-UFRN) will hold this Friday, November 10, a colloquium with researcher Philippe Courteille, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics and Materials Science of the Institute of Physics of São...

Students from UFRN receive training for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Published Fri, Nov 03, 2023
A collaboration between the Physics and Astroparticles groups of the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) and the Astrophysics and Astroparticles Group at the University of São Paulo - São Carlos Campus (USP) has opened doors...

With the support of IIP/UFRN the physics tournament for girls had 440 students qualify for the final phase of the competition.

Published Fri, Oct 27, 2023
On September 14, the final exam for the first Physics Tournament for Girls (TFM) was held. The tournament challenged the notion that physics is a field dominated by men and opened the doors to a more inclusive and equal future in the world of science. With the completion of the final exam, the...

The International Institute of Physics hosts the J-PAS meeting this week

Published Wed, Oct 11, 2023
With a diverse program that includes hybrid-format lectures, allowing participants to join either in person or virtually, the 19th J-PAS Collaboration Meeting (Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating) is taking place at the International Institute of Physics at UFRN from October 9 to 14. In Brazil,...

IIP-UFRN offers a mini-course aimed at the institute's postgraduate students with a focus on quantum information

Published Thu, Oct 05, 2023
The mini-course “Semi-Defined Programming and Applications in Quantum Information”, hosted by the International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP-UFRN), commenced on Thursday, October 5th, presented by Dr. Isadora Veeren, visiting researcher at the IIP. The program focuses on...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to attosecond physics

Published Tue, Oct 03, 2023
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced, this Tuesday, October 3rd, the names of the three winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Frenchman Pierre Agostini, the Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and the French-Swedish Anne L' Huillier were selected by this year's awards...