Five new post-doctoral openings

Published Wed, Jun 18, 2014
The International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) announces the opening of 5 post-doctoral research positions. The candidates are expected to have proven interest and experience working in one of the following areas: Theoretical Strongly Correlated...

National Institutes of Science and Technology Program opens second edition

Published Wed, Jun 18, 2014
A partnership between the Brazilian Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) launched on June 6 the second edition of the National Institutes of Science and Technology Program (INCTs), considered the biggest...

Professor Sidarta Ribeiro presents the second part of his colloquium "Dreams, Memories and Madness" in the IIP

Published Tue, Jun 17, 2014
The Director of the Brain Institute in Natal, Professor Sidarta Ribeiro, presented on June 10 the second part of the colloquium ``Dreams, Memories and Madness´´, in which the scientist approached the importance of sleep and dreams in the consolidation and structuring of memories, as well as in...

IIP Host Colloquia this Tuesday

Published Mon, Jun 09, 2014
On this Tuesday, June 10, the International Institute of Physics will host special colloquia with Professors Sidarta Ribeiro, at the IIP´s seminar room and the other with Professor David K. Campbell, at the Auditorium of the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics of the Federal...

Proton's magnetism measured with greatest precision yet

Published Thu, Jun 05, 2014
In an attempt to solve the mystery of the Universe´s missing antimatter, physicists have achieved the most precise measurement yet of the proton´s inherent magnetism. Publishing in Nature on 28 May, a group of researchers has mastered a technique to measure the magnetic moment of a proton —...

Tetraquarks existence confirmed in the LHC

Published Mon, Jun 02, 2014
Scientists in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in the Franco-Swiss border, have confirmed few weeks ago the existence of the tetraquark particle and may have discovered a new form of matter. Named as provocative particle Z(4430), the idea was first postulated by physicists in Japan, after the...