UFRN awards scientist Itamar Procaccia with Doctor Honoris Causa title

Published Tue, Oct 23, 2012
Professor Itamar Procaccia, from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), receives on this Friday, October 26, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). The ceremony is scheduled for 6pm in the Otto Guerra de Brito Auditorium, located in the...

Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2012

Published Tue, Oct 09, 2012
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012 to Serge Haroche (Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) and David J. Wineland (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO,...

Workshop on quantum tecnology brought together 57 researchers

Published Tue, Sep 04, 2012
The International Institute of Physics (IIP), of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), held from August 20 to 31, 2012, the workshop "Advances in Quantum Technology: From Quantum Information to Quantum Devices".  The meeting took place in the auditorium of the Theoretical and...

International Meeting at UFRN discusses on advances in quantum technology

Published Mon, Aug 20, 2012
The International Institute of Physics (IIP), of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), has started this Monday, Aug. 20, the workshop ´´Advances in Quantum Technology: From Quantum Information to Quantum Devices´´. The meeting takes place at the auditorium of the Theoretical...

Lecture-course on synthetic conductors and electronic systems has a positive outcome

Published Tue, Jul 24, 2012
The lecture-course given by professors Serguei Brazovski and Natasha Kirova, both from University Paris-Sud 11 (France) has ended last July, the 10th. The course entitled “Physics of synthetic conductors as low dimensional correlated electronic systems” was organized by  the Post-graduation...

Physicists discuss integrability in an international meeting in UFRN

Published Tue, Jul 10, 2012
The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) will be the stage for the highest level discussions on the field of theoretical physics from next Monday, 16th of July. Organized by the International Institute of Physics (IIP), the event entitled "The Beauty of integrability: Low-dimensional...