IIP hosts School on Physics and Neuroscience in August

Published Fri, Aug 01, 2014
From August 11 to 17 the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte will host a Summer School on Physics and Neuroscience in Natal. The event will take place at Imirá Plaza Hotel, located at Via Costeira Avenue. The school will have as Directors Dr....

IOP Science publish editorial about Professor Mikhail Portnoi´s research

Published Thu, Jul 31, 2014
Professor Mikhail Portnoi, visiting researcher of the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, was cited in an IOP Science Editorial about his work on carbon materials along with Professors Richard Hartmann (De La Salle University in Philippines) and...

Proton Spin Mystery Gains a New Clue

Published Tue, Jul 29, 2014
Protons have a constant spin that is an intrinsic particle property like mass or charge. Yet where this spin comes from is such a mystery it’s dubbed the “proton spin crisis.” Initially physicists thought a proton’s spin was the sum of the spins of its three constituent quarks. But a 1987...

UERN opens selection process for Masters in Physics

Published Fri, Jul 25, 2014 | Tags: Astrophysics, Cosmology, Physics
The State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) is opening a public call for its Post-Graduate Program in Physics (PPGF), developed from a partnership between UERN and the Semi-Arid Federal Rural University (UFERSA), both institutions located in Mossoró/RN, Brazil.Besides granting the title of...

ICe hosts seminar with Physicist Dr. Marcelo Magnasco

Published Mon, Jul 21, 2014 | Tags: Brain, Nature
The Brain Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (ICe-UFRN) will host this Wednesday (July 23) a lecture with Dr. Marcelo Magnasco, from the Rockefeller University (USA). The presentation “Balancing on a knife´s edge: Criticality as a biological strategy for flexibility and...

ICe hosts seminar with Physicist Dr. Marcelo Magnasco

Published Mon, Jul 21, 2014
The Brain Institute of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (ICe-UFRN) will host this Wednesday (July 23) a lecture with Dr. Marcelo Magnasco, from the Rockefeller University (USA). The presentation “Balancing on a knife´s edge: Criticality as a biological strategy for flexibility and...