LIGO Does It Again

Published Thu, Jun 16, 2016 | Tags: A Second Robust Binary Black Hole Coalescence Observed
The two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanford Washington and Livingston Louisiana have caught a second robust signal from two black holes in their final orbits and then their coalescence into a single black hole. This event, dubbed GW151226, was seen on December 26th at 03:38:53 (in...

Nature Magazine publish paper with collaboration of UFRN researcher

Published Thu, Jun 09, 2016
The latest issue of Nature Magazine published a paper developed by a team of experimental and theoretic physicists on manipulation of atomic systems. The publication had the collaboration of Professor Tommaso Macrì, from the UFRN’s Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics and...

IIP Facebook Page

Published Mon, Jun 06, 2016
The International Institute of Physics (IIP-UFRN) is now available on Facebook, with photos, videos, and news about the activities taking place in the Institute and in science worldwide. This new space will also be an interactive channel between the institution and researchers interested to...

IIP host workhop Quantum Non-Equilibrium Phenomena

Published Wed, Jun 01, 2016 | Tags: The event will also offer special talks to the local community
The IIP will host from June 06 to 18 the workshop “Quantum Non-Equilibrium Phenomena”, an international event that will gather scientists from Universities of the Americas, Europe and Asia to present the latest advancements in this field of research. The entire event will be hosted at...

IIP and DFTE-UFRN host special event for the Brazilian Physicist Day

Published Mon, May 23, 2016
The IIP and the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (DFTE-UFRN) held a joint event last May 19, to celebrate the Brazilian Physicist Day. During this special activity, the IIP auditorium was crowded with students, Professors and researchers from the local scientific community, who...

IIP and DFTE host special events to celebrate the Physicist Day in Brazil

Published Fri, May 13, 2016
The Brazilian Physics Society celebrates next Thursday, May 19, the national Physicist Day, a special date that honors the work of these scientists. The day is also a reference to the year when Albert Einstein published his work regarding his Theory of Relativity, 1905. This specific date is a...