IIP/UFRN hosts scientists from 19 countries for workshop on quantum gravity

Published Fri, Jul 18, 2025
Explaining how gravity works at the quantum scale is one of the greatest challenges in modern physics. Researchers from around the world will gather from July 21 to August 1 for the workshop “Quantum Gravity, Holography and Quantum Information”, hosted by the International Institute of...

IIP/UFRN holds seminar on quantum geometry of electronic states

Published Wed, Jul 16, 2025
Why does metal conduct heat and electricity better than wood? To answer this kind of question, condensed matter physics primarily looks at how electrons move and interact within materials. On Friday (18th) at 11 a.m., the auditorium of the International Institute of Physics (IIP/UFRN) will host a...

UFG Scientist Presents New Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics at IIP Seminar

Published Tue, Jul 08, 2025
While thermodynamics describes the behavior of matter based on macroscopic systems, quantum mechanics investigates phenomena in the microscopic scale of the universe. Despite the contrast between these approaches, they are connected through gauge theories, which will be the central topic of a...

IIP mini-course explores the connections between Thermodynamics, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity

Published Thu, Jul 03, 2025
From July 7 to 11, the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP/UFRN) will host the minicourse “Irreversibility and the Structure of Spacetime”. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty members, the classes are free...

IIP/UFRN hosts seminar on fracton quantum spin liquids

Published Tue, Jul 01, 2025
Next Friday (July 4), the International Institute of Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP/UFRN) will welcome researcher Nils Niggemann from the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy, for the seminar “Fracton Quantum Spin Liquid on a...

IIP hosts professor of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics to discuss the hierarchy problem in energy scales

Published Tue, Jun 10, 2025
The International Institute of Physics at UFRN (IIP/UFRN) will host a lecture next Friday, the 13th, by Professor Manfred Lindner from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. The seminar, titled “Hierarchies and conformal UV completions”, will begin at 11...