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...

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...