Full Permanent Professor Position

Published Thu, Dec 29, 2011
  OPENING FOR FULL PROFESSOR POSITION (“PROFESSOR TITULAR”)   The official rules governing this Selection Procedure for a Full Professor Position can be viewed on The UFRN webpage http://www.prh.ufrn.br/conteudo/concursos/prog_efet021-2011.htm   Below is a summary of the main topics of...

Closing conference for the Academic Year 2011

Published Fri, Dec 16, 2011
By request of Professor Jose Renan de Medeiros, Coordinator of PPGF / UFRN, I am pleased to invite all to the closing conference for the Academic Year 2011 program of graduate studies in Physics, delivered by Professor AlexLazarian (Institute of Physics of Christmas...

LHC: Higgs boson, may have been glimpsed

Published Thu, Dec 15, 2011
This week at CERN ATLAS and CMS experiments reported on the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. According to the official report: "The main conclusion is that the Standard Model Higgs boson, if it exists, is most likely to have a mass constrained to the range 116-130 GeV...

A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley and Liacir Lucena

Published Wed, Nov 09, 2011
Perspectives and Challenges in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems for the Next Decade: A Conference in Honor of Eugene Stanley and Liacir Lucena Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil The conference program is now available on the main conference...

Visiting Professor at IIP

Published Tue, Nov 01, 2011
In November we will receive the visit of Professor Avadh Saxena from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. He will be presenting a seminar on November 10, 2011 here at IIP's seminar room. Avadh Saxena is Group Leader of the Condensed Matter and Complex Systems group (T-4)...

Physics by the pool

Published Mon, Oct 17, 2011
The first session was given on 14/9 by me on Chern numbers.  I showed that it can be seen quite easily that the first Chern number, which is an important topological number in several areas of physics like topological insulators or the physics of skyrmions, is a generalization of the winding...