Post-doctoral positions in Quantum Information and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Published Fri, Mar 24, 2017
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) is expecting to fill post-doctoral research positions in the fields of Quantum Information and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Successful candidates should demonstrate a high level of expertise and...

Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft presents colloquium at the IIP

Published Tue, Mar 21, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, the International Institute of Physics of UFRN will host a special colloquium, at 05:00 pm, presented by Professor Gerrard 't Hooft, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics. This is an event with open registration to the local community. Professor ‘t Hooft is a researcher at...

Workshop "Topology Matters" from the Johannes Gutenberg University

Published Thu, Mar 02, 2017
The Johannes Gutenberg University will host from July 25 to 28 the SPICE-Workshop “Topology Matters", in Mainz, Germany. The workshop "Topology Matters" aims to bring together the top scientists in the fields of spintronics, superconductivity, topological insulators, and multiferroics, to...

New method uses heat flow to levitate variety of objects

Published Thu, Feb 16, 2017
Although scientists have been able to levitate specific types of material, a pair of UChicago undergraduate physics students helped take the science to a new level. Third-year Frankie Fung and fourth-year Mykhaylo Usatyuk led a team of UChicago researchers who demonstrated how to levitate a...

Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality

Published Mon, Jan 30, 2017
Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating the rarest - and potentially one of the most valuable - materials on the planet. The material - atomic metallic hydrogen - was created by Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac Silvera and...

Workshop Collective Spin Transport in Electrical Insulators

Published Wed, Jan 25, 2017
From May 02 to 26, the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) will host in Natal (Brazil) the workshop “Collective Spin Transport in Electrical Insulators”, when researchers from different countries will discuss the latest...