Professor Ady Stern holds a virtual seminar at IIP-UFRN on November 10th

Published Tue, Nov 09, 2021
Professor Ady Stern, a researcher at the Weizmann Institute (Israel), is the guest of the next virtual seminar at the UFRN International Institute of Physics, which will take place on Wednesday, November 10, with live transmission on Youtube (www.youtube. com/iiptv). The seminar “Spread and...

Virtual seminar “Majorana fermions bound to line defects in Kitaev spin liquids” at IIP-UFRN

Published Tue, Oct 26, 2021
The UFRN International Institute of Physics will hold, next Wednesday, October 27th, the virtual seminar “Majorana fermions bound to line defects in Kitaev spin liquids”, presented by Professor Rodrigo Gonçalves Pereira. The event will start at 1pm, with live broadcast on...

Photographing Wigner Crystals

Published Mon, Oct 25, 2021
Imagine a physical system so delicate that even measuring it could disturb it. These are Wigner's crystals, a phase of matter with such low densities that the electric repulsion between electrons becomes more important than the minimal kinetic energy imposed by quantum mechanics. The phenomenon...

IIP-UFRN holds virtual seminar "Spacetime and matter under the microscope"

Published Fri, Oct 15, 2021
UFRN's International Institute of Physics will hold, next Wednesday, October 20th, the virtual seminar “Spacetime and matter under the microscope”, presented by Professor Antonio Duarte Pereira, researcher at the Fluminense Federal University. The event will be broadcast live on...

Virtual seminar with Prof. Itamar Procaccia at IIP-UFRN

Published Tue, Oct 12, 2021
Professor Itamar Procaccia, a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), will present this Wednesday, October 13, the seminar “Anomalous Elasticity and Plastic Screening in Amorphous Solids, as part of the program of virtual seminars of the International Institute of Physics of...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

Published Tue, Oct 05, 2021
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this Tuesday (October 5th) the names of the laureates for the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, honoring the work of physicists Syukuro Manabe (Princeton University), Klaus Hasselmann (Max Planck Institute of Meteorology) and Giorgio Parisi (Sapienza...