New class of particles discovered at the LHC

Published Tue, Jul 14, 2015
Researchers from CERN announced this Tuesday (July 14) the discovery of a new class of particle, known as Pentaquark. The results achieved by the team have been submitted to Physics Today and is available online (click here). According with the scientists in Switzerland, this work will help to...

Event on DMRG gather scientists from different fields in Natal

Published Fri, Jul 03, 2015
The IIP hosted, from June 22 to 27, a workshop and symposium on “DMRG Technique for Strongly Correlated Systems in Physics and Chemistry”, an event dedicated to discussions about the technique in physics and correlated areas. The first lecture of the series was presented by the creator of...

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...