IIP-UFRN hosts seminar with Professor Alex Dias

Published Fri, May 25, 2018
The IIP-UFRN hosted this Friday, May 25, a seminar with Prof. Alex Dias, physicist from the ABC Federal University, about the axion particle and its implications for the researches in the field of dark matter. The seminar “Why Looking for Axions and Axion-Like Particles?” will approach...

Global physics experiment challenges Einstein with the help of 100,000 volunteers

Published Wed, May 16, 2018
On November 30th, 2016, more than 100,000 people around the world contributed to a suite of first-of-a-kind quantum physics experiments known as The BIG Bell Test. Using smartphones and other internet-connected devices, participants contributed unpredictable bits, which determined how entangled...

Workshop “Transport in Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems”

Published Thu, May 03, 2018
From July 16 to August 03 the International Institute of Physics of UFRN will host the Workshop “Transport in Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems”, an international that will bring together theorists working in several promising areas of quantum transport in Solid State Physics. The...

Carolina Nemes Award 2018

Published Thu, Apr 19, 2018
The Brazilian Physics Society (SBF) has opened the registrations for candidates for the Carolina Nemes Award, created to recognize women's contributions to the development of Brazilian physics, as well as help reduce the visible gender asymmetry in the number of physicists in the country. The...

IIP-UFRN researchers amongst the winners of the 2017 JINR Prizes

Published Fri, Apr 13, 2018
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia) announced a few days ago the names of the winners of the 2017 JINR Prizes. Those prizes are awarded for outstanding theoretical, experimental, technological and applied series of works carried out in the JINR fields of research which must have been...

IIP-UFRN researcher publishes in the Physics Reports

Published Thu, Apr 05, 2018
IIP-UFRN researcher, Professor Farinaldo Queiroz, was one of the guest writers for the 2018 issue of the Physical Reports, the American scientific journal that presents reviews for different topics in research and provides an important reference to future work in those areas. The invitation to the...