IIP researcher publishes a new exact formula for the Ising Model

Published Thu, Feb 08, 2018
In a recent work published in Physical Review Letters, Professor Jacopo Viti (IIP and ECT-UFRN) presented  a new exact formula for the best-known bidimensional  lattice model, the Ising Model. The paper was written in collaboration with Dr. Giacomo Gori, from SISSA Trieste (Italy) and for...

Postdoctoral fellowship in Condensed Matter Theory

Published Fri, Feb 02, 2018
Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China in collaboration with Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden A two-year postdoctoral fellowship in condensed matter theory, promoted by the Beijing Computational Science Research Center in collaboration with the Department of...

Workshop Geometry of Soft Matter

Published Fri, Jan 05, 2018
From May 21 to 25 the International Institute of Physics of UFRN (www.iip.ufrn.br/events) will host the workshop “Geometry of Soft Matter”, in Natal, Brazil. This event will bring together researchers working on different aspects of soft matter field and aim to enable its participants...

Congratulations to Prof. Itamar Procaccia!

Published Fri, Dec 15, 2017
Professor Itamar Procaccia, from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and member of the IIP’s International Advisory Council, was announced this week as one of the winners of the 2017 “EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize”. The European Physics Society award also...

Quantum weirdness alters basic cause-effect relations

Published Tue, Dec 12, 2017
Why do things happen? What causes Nature to behave the way we observe it to? These are among the most fundamental questions in science and philosophy. If interventions are available, one can modify a system, observe the effects of such modifications, and, from those effects, infer cause-effect...

IIP researcher receives international award for his researches

Published Thu, Dec 07, 2017
Professor Rodrigo Pereira, from the IIP, was one of the 20 scientists honored with the 2017 “Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards, presented to researchers who completed their doctorates less than 18 years ago and who in the future are expected to continue producing cutting-edge...