Published Mon, Jan 25, 2016
In its final adjustments, the new International Institute of Physics building inside the UFRN´s campus will be inaugurated next March 21, in the presence of illustrious guests from the national and international scientific community, academic faculty from UFRN and government officials. The... Published Tue, Jan 12, 2016
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) will host from April 04 to 15, 2015 the Workshop “Physics and Mathematics of Complex Systems: Growing Interfaces, Nonlinear Dynamics, Integrability”, an event dedicated to bringing... Published Tue, Jan 12, 2016
Last January 12, during the CNPq/ MCTI 2016 Universal Open Call, President Dilma Rousseff signed a new law in that will allow scientists to carry out research in the privet sector, while maintain their positions in public universities in Brazil. The government hopes to bust the potential of... Published Wed, Dec 02, 2015
By Michael Schirber, from Physics APS
The van der Waals attraction occurs when two objects come close enough to induce an electric polarization in one another. Researchers have now demonstrated a way to tune the van der Waals force exerted by graphene on a molecule. The technique, which is based... Published Fri, Nov 27, 2015
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the GTH, a special event will be hosted in Natal, from December 16 to 17. The workshop “Celebrating 100 years of General Relativity” is organized by a group of researchers from different institutions in Brazil and will be presented in Portuguese,... Published Wed, Nov 18, 2015
Constructing an effective field theory (EFT) to exploit the hierarchy of length scales in a physical system has become an essential skill to be mastered by the modern theoretical physicist. EFTs play a prominent role in almost all branches of modern theoretical physics including particle physics,...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |