ICTP-SAIFR School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neuroscience

Published Wed, Jul 01, 2015
The School on Complex Networks and Applications to Neurosciences will cover theoretical aspects and current trends in the Theory of Complex Networks including their structural properties, dynamical processes, and multiplex networks with applications to social, technological and biological systems....

IIP hosts School and workshop on Black Holes and Cosmology

Published Mon, Jun 22, 2015
The IIP hosted from June 08 to 19, the school and workshop “Theoretical Frontiers in Black Holes and Cosmology”, an event dedicated to discussions regarding new developments in this field and to exchange of experiences between scientists from Brazil and abroad. This was also a...

Team of scientists creates ultracold molecules

Published Tue, Jun 16, 2015
Researchers in the United States have successfully developed in laboratory a process to cool molecules to a temperature of 500 nanokelvins, just a little above absolute zero. The experimental physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used a gas of sodium potassium (NaK) to...

Scientists discuss weakly bound quantum-mechanical systems in Natal

Published Tue, Jun 02, 2015
Gathered in Natal for a week long international event, scientists from different institutions around the world participated from May 24 to 30 in the IIP first event of 2015, the Workshop on “Weakly Bound Exotic Nuclei”. The activities took place at Praiamar Hotel, with strong interactions...

IIP Distinguished Professor is awarded

Published Fri, May 29, 2015
Professor Lev Bulaevskii, former member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA) and Distinguished professor of the IIP, was awarded with the 2015 Abrikosov Prize in Vortex Physics, in recognition for his pioneering work on "concepts describing equilibrium and dynamic states of vortex matter in...

Thesis advised by IIP Professor to be defended this Friday

Published Wed, May 20, 2015
This Friday, May 22, the UFRN’s Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (DFTE) will host the thesis defense of the Doctorate student Madson Rubem Silva. His research work was done under the supervision of the IIP Professor Dmitry Melnikov and is titled “Black Holes, AdS-BCFT and...