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...

Happy birthday Prof. Silvio Salinas!

Published Fri, Oct 21, 2022
Silvio Salinas, an internationally renowned statistical physicist, celebrates his 80th birthday this Friday, October 21, at a commemorative conference at the Institute of Physics at USP, o “Encontro aberto organizado pela Física Geral, com diversos convidados”. Salinas played a...

Virtual seminar with Natan Andrei

Published Thu, Oct 20, 2022
Next Monday, October 24th, the International Institute of Physics at UFRN will host a virtual seminar with Professor Natan Andrei, from Rutgers University. The seminar “Kondo Effect in 1-D superconductors” begins at 2:00 pm and will be broadcasted live at...

Tutorial on education for high-performing students at IIP

Published Wed, Oct 19, 2022
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte held last October 18 a special training session for its professors and guests, with Professor Izabel Hazin, researcher at the Instituto Metrópole Digital, who presented a tutorial on teaching students...