IIP News 02

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IIP News - Year II, number 02
The IIP has opened a call for a new post-doctoral
program for professors in Brazil. This proposal
offers a funding opportunity for physicists who
already have a position in a public educational
institution in Brazil and wish to strengthen their
academic curriculum.
In this first call the IIP is offering five research
scholarships for 2017, with a monthly payment
of R$ 4.100,00 (as a supplement to the professor’s
salary) during a one year internship, renewable
at the end of each year.
During this period the participant must take a
The meeting will be held
at the IIP and will be presided
by the IAC chairman,
Professor Itamar
Procaccia, member of
the Weizmann Institute
of Science (Israel), and
Doctor Honoris Causa by
the UFRN. The University
Rector, Professor Ângeleave
of absence from his/her institution and
join one of the IIP research groups.
Candidates who are not allowed to take a longer
leave from their institutions can decide to
take shorter internship periods with a minimum
stay of 4 to 6 months at the IIP.
Interested parties must send a copy of their
research project, CV, list of publications and
two recommendation letters. The applications
will be analyzed continuously. All documents
should be sent electronically to posdocbrasil@
iip.ufrn.br.
IIP hosts the 2017 annual
IAC meeting
Prof. David Nelson presents
colloquium at the IIP in March
The International Institute
of Physics of the
Federal University of Rio
Grande do Norte (IIP-
UFRN) is hosting from
March 20 to 21 the annual
meeting of its International
Advisory Council
(IAC).
During these two days
the academic directives
and the program
of events for 2018 will be
defined. This is also the
moment to evaluate the
results achieved during
the previous year and to
discuss the development
of new projects at the IIP.
la Paiva, will also be
present on the first day
of the meeting to welcome
the Members.
Among the subjects
that will be discussed
during the meeting,
the renowned scientists
that form the IAC
will evaluate the research
activities at the
IIP during the past year,
select the projects to
be part of the Institute’s
2018 events program
and approve prospective
candidates for collaboration
visits for the
coming year.
About the IAC
The Council is constituted
by scientists from
Brazil and abroad with
outstanding contributions
to science in different
areas of Physics, including
two Nobel Prize
Laureates.
Professor David R. Nelson,
a physicist from Harvard
and IAC member,
will present a colloquium
at the IIP on March
17, entitled “Gene Surfing
and the Survival of the
Luckiest”, when he will
discuss physics views on
the evolutionary history of
the live species. This event will be open to the scientific
community and will take place at the IIP auditorium at
03:30 p.m.
Professor Nelson will be visiting the IIP as part of the annual
IAC (International Advisory Council) meeting, that
will be held from March 20 to 21, will reunite leading scientists
that form the IAC.
Nelson’s research is in a range of theoretical problems,
focusing on attempts to gain new insights into fluids,
liquid crystals, polymers, phase transitions, glasses, superfluids,
superconductors, and biophysics problems.
The prediction of Halperin and Nelson of a fourth “hexatic”
phase of matter, interposed between the usual solid
and liquid phases, has now been confirmed in experiments
on thin films and bulk liquid crystals.
David Nelson is a recipient of the “Award for Initiatives
in Research from the National Academy of Sciences”
(1986); the “Guggenheim Fellowship” (1993-1994); the
“Harvard Ledlie Prize of Harvard University” (1995) and
the “Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize” (2004).