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...

4 Tenure-track Professor positions in Theoretical Physics

Published Tue, May 19, 2015
The International Institute of Physics (IIP) invites applications for up to 4 tenure-track Professor positions in any area of Theoretical Physics.Currently, the gross annual salary for these positions is BRL 226.599,62.Interested applicants must submit the following information by August 14,...

Workshop on Quantum Fields and IR Issues in de Sitter Space to be hosted by the IIP-UFRN

Published Mon, May 18, 2015
During the month of July the IIP-UFRN will host a two week international workshop “Quantum Fields and IR Issues in de Sitter Space”. The event will be focused on different views on the problems of quantum field theory in de Sitter Space and is expected to contain an overview of the...