Registration period for the EPF extended until this Friday

Published Mon, Nov 13, 2017
The registrations for the Encontro Potiguar de Física (Potiguar Physics Meeting) were extended until this Friday, November 17. Interested ones can find more information about the event at www.fisica.ufrn.br/epf2017. About the EPF The EPF will be hosted in the city of Caico/RN on December...

IIP host colloquium with Professor Tao Han

Published Fri, Nov 10, 2017
The IIP will host next Thursday, November 16, a colloquium with Professor Tao Han – University of Pittsburgh (USA) – entitled Under the Higgs Lamppost: Physics Motivations for Future Colliders. This activity is part of the program for the workshop “LHC Chapter II: The run for new...

SBF and UFRN host Physics meeting in Caico

Published Wed, Nov 08, 2017
From December 05 to 06 2017 the city of Caicó-RN will host the second edition of the  Encontro Potiguar de Física (Potiguar Physics Meeting), a local event that will join physicists from all corners of Rio Grande do Norte. This activity aims to better integrate the local...

Webinar about dark matter with Prof. Farinaldo Queiroz

Published Mon, Oct 30, 2017
Tomorrow, October 31, the Lawphysics – a webinar cycle created to connect physicists working on astroparticles, high energy physics, and astrophysics – will broadcast a presentation by Professor Farinaldo Queiroz, the IIP researcher who will lead a research line in high energy physics...

Workshop LHC Chapter II: The Run for New Physics

Published Tue, Oct 24, 2017
The harvest of data at Run II of the LHC is expected to have profound implications for physics beyond the Standard Model, both on the theoretical and phenomelogical levels. In order to debate the possible developments of this event, the IIP-UFRN (Brazil) will host the workshop “LHC ...

LIGO and Virgo detect gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars

Published Tue, Oct 17, 2017
The LIGO-Virgo collaboration announced last October 16 that for the first time scientists were able to directly detect gravitational waves, in additions to light from the collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitational waves and...