Brazilian scientist is awarded by UNESCO and L'Oréal Foundation

Published Mon, Mar 24, 2014
Brazilian astrophysicist Thaisa Bergmann, while trying to decide her career, heard from her father: "women need to choose an occupation that allows them to work only part-time" It was not lack of confidence in his skills of his daughter - he even helped set up a science lab in the attic, in...

IIP hosts workshop on "Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation" next week

Published Fri, Mar 21, 2014
From March 23 to April 6, the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte will host the workshop “Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation”, which has in its directive board the presence of Francisco Alcaraz (IFSC,...

IIP hosts series of Colloquiums with IAC members

Published Thu, Mar 20, 2014
After the 2014 International Advisory Council Meeting (IAC), hosted by UFRN’s International Institute of Physics from March 17 to 18, a series of Colloquiums are being presented by some of the IAC members at the University´s Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Auditorium. The...

Physics Nobel Prize winner presents Master Class in the opening of UFRN 2014.1 semester

Published Mon, Mar 17, 2014
The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) hosts on Wednesday, March 19, the visit of Professor Gerard ´t Hooft, who will deliver this semester’s Master Class at Otto Brito Guerra Auditorium (Rectory´s Bulding). The lecture is entitled on “The Newly Discovered Higgs Particle”, and...

International Institute of Physics hosts annual IAC meeting in March

Published Thu, Mar 13, 2014
From March 17 to 18 the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) will host the annual meeting of its International Advisory Council (IAC), when the events program and the academic directives for the IIP in 2015 will be defined. The meeting will...

Construction site of the International Institute of Physics new building receives visit of the UFRN Dean

Published Wed, Mar 12, 2014
The Rector of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Ângela Paiva, will visit the construction site of the new International Institute of Physics (IIP) building, this Friday (march 14), for a follow-up on its construction. On the occasion, the IIP´s Director, Prof. Álvaro Ferraz...