IIP researchers use neutron stars as laboratories to study dark matter

Published Wed, May 27, 2020
Researchers at the International Physics Institute at UFRN are working on new ways to better understand what dark matter really is. The IIP Particle and Astroparticulate Physics group developed a detection method based on spectroscopic measurements of neutron stars. The results are available in the...

Field theory approach to protein folding

Published Wed, May 20, 2020
Physicists at the IIP-UFRN are using unconventional tools from physics research to study the ways in which protein molecules can fold themselves, a phenomena that is the basis of the existence of life. The paper “Chern-Simons-Higgs model as a theory of protein molecules” on this...

Dia Nacional do Físico 2020

Published Tue, May 19, 2020
Nesta terça-feira, 19 de maio, o Brasil comemora o Dia Nacional do Físico, data definida pela Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF) em alusão à 1905, o assim chamado, “Ano Milagroso” em que Albert Einstein publicou quatro trabalhos que tiveram profundo...

IIP researcher talks about the growth of COVID-19 in Brazil

Published Fri, May 15, 2020
Professor Rafael Chaves, lead researcher of the quantum information group at the IIP-UFRN, was one of those interviewed by the Tribuna do Norte newspaper, in an article about the growth in the number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil and about the importance of maintaining population quarantine levels...

CALL for Applications: Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity for a Brazilian postdoctoral fellow at the WIS

Published Wed, May 13, 2020
Sponsorship The Paulo Pinheiro de Andrade Fellowship Fund.   Funding An annual sum of $28,000 paid through the WIS. The host PI will be responsible to supplement the fellowship to WIS regular postdoctoral fellowship level, including travel allocation.   Deadline May 31,...

Plataforma Europea de Divulgación de la Ciencia

Published Wed, May 13, 2020
Queridos/as compañeros/as de la Ridphe: No cabe duda de que uno de los mayores desafíos para quienes nos enfrentamos a la organización de una nueva actividad de divulgación científica o comunicación social de la ciencia es elegir el formato adecuado,...