The Feynman Lectures on Physics now available for free in an on-line version

Published Fri, Sep 05, 2014
Richard Feynman is one of the most memorable Physicists in History, not only for his role in the Manhattan Project and his work over the investigations about the 1986 Challenger disaster but also for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. This contribution granted him a...

Workshop “Correlations, Criticality, And Coherence In Quantum Systems” to be held in Évora in October

Published Fri, Aug 29, 2014
From October 06 to 10, 2014, the workshop “Correlations, Criticality, And Coherence In Quantum Systems” will be hosted in Évora – Portugal, promoted by European and US projects, as well as European and Chinese research centers. The main focus areas of the workshop will be quantum criticality...

IIP hosts international workshop on Turbulence in October

Published Wed, Aug 20, 2014
From October 06 to 16 the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) will host, at the Praiamar Hotel, the workshop ``Turbulence: In the sky as on the Earth´´, an international event that will gather specialists from different countries to...

4th Bangkok Workshop on High-Energy Theory to be held in January 2015

Published Tue, Aug 19, 2014
The Chulalongkorn University in Thailand will host from January 19 to 23, 2015, the “4th Bangkok Workshop on High-Energy Theory”, an international event with focus on a broad range of issues in high-energy theory, such as gravity quantization (including string and matrix theories),...

Professor Mauro Ferreira present seminar on "Friedel Oscillations in Graphene" at the DFTE

Published Wed, Aug 13, 2014
The Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (DFTE-UFRN) will host this Thursday (August 14) a special seminar, delivered by Professor Mauro S. Ferreira from Trinity College Dublin – a visiting professor at UFRN for the next three years,...

IIP hosts workshop on “Geometrical Aspects of Quantum States in Condensed Matter Physics”

Published Tue, Aug 12, 2014
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) is hosting in Natal, Brazil, the workshop "Geometrical Aspects of Quantum States in Condensed Matter Physics", from August 18 to 29, 2014. The goal of the event, organized by Professors Paul Wiegmann...