Experimenting with quantum cause and effect

Published Tue, May 31, 2022
A research project developed by IIP’s physicist, Prof. Rafael Chavesx and Dr. Davide Poderini, in collaboration with scientists from Germany, Italy and Poland, explores questions about cause and effect in the quantum world. In the paper “Experimental test of quantum causal...

IIP-UFRN holds a special seminar on Higher Education

Published Thu, May 26, 2022
This Friday, May 27, the International Institute of Physics at UFRN will hold a special event on the future of teaching and the role of universities in Brazil and in the world. The virtual seminar “Transformations of Higher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Universities” will...

IIP-UFRN holds a virtual seminar with Prof. Guilherme Pimentel

Published Thu, May 26, 2022
Professor Guilherme Pimentel, researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy), is the guest of the next edition of the series of virtual seminars of the International Institute of Physics at UFRN, which will be held on May 30, from 2 pm, with broadcast to the live at www.youtube.com/iiptv. In...

IIP-UFRN holds virtual seminar with Dmitry Efetov (LMU)

Published Fri, May 20, 2022
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN will hold on May 23 the virtual seminar “Plethora of Many-Body Ground States in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene”, with Professor Dmitri Efetov, from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU-Munich) . The event, which is organized in...

IIP holds a virtual seminar with Prof. Anne Spiering (Niels Bohr Institute)

Published Thu, May 12, 2022
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN will hold on May 16 the virtual seminar “Quantum chaos and integrability in super Yang-Mills theories”, presented by physicist Anne Spiering (Niels Bohr Institute). The event will start at 2 pm, with live broadcast on You tube. Anne...

First image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy

Published Thu, May 12, 2022
Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed this Thursday, May 12, the first image of the supermassive black hole (BH) that is at the center of the Milky Way. The research group's work provides valuable data on the functioning of the BH that is in the middle of our...