Cine Forum with the movie "Maksimovic: The Story of Bruno Pontecorvo"

Published Thu, Mar 27, 2014
This 2013 documentary, written by Giuseppe Mussardo - member of the International Scientific Council of the IIP, tells the story of how the Italian physicist Bruno Pontecorvo fled to the Soviet Union in the Cold War. Born into a Jewish family settled in Pisa, early on Pontecorvo stood out as a...

UFRN hosts Master Class with Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft

Published Mon, Mar 24, 2014
The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte hosted on last March 19 the opening ceremony of its 2014.1 academic semester, with the lecture of professor Gerard ‘t Hooft – 1999’s Physics Nobel Prize honored – who presented a Master Class on “The Recently Discovered Higgs Particle”....

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...