Workshop-School on Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials

Published Wed, Mar 07, 2018
From June 03 to 28 the International Institute of Physics of UFRN in Natal (Brazil) will host the workshop-school “Topological Structures in Ferroic Materials”, an international event that is aimed to senior and young researchers alike, working with different materials, from...

Post-Doctoral Position in Statistical Mechanics at IFSC-USP 2018

Published Thu, Feb 15, 2018
One post-doctoral position is available at the Group of Statistical Mechanics of the São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo. The position is funded by FAPESP (a São Paulo State agency - Brazil) to the project: Quantum Spin Chain, coordinated by Francisco C....

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...