Published Wed, Jul 23, 2025
On Monday, 21st, the International Institute of Physics (IIP/UFRN) welcomed a group of students from the Global STEM Academies cultural exchange program, organized by the American Field Service (AFS). The group, composed of high school students from sixteen different countries, visited the research... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |