IFISC researcher wins Emerging Researcher Award from the Complex Systems Society
Former IFISC postdoctoral researcher, Aleix Bassolas, has been awarded the Emerging Researcher award. The award, given at the closing ceremony of the Conference on Complex Systems Congress (CCS) by the Complex Systems Society, has highlighted Bassolas' research work and his “outstanding contributions to Complex Systems Science”.Aleix Bassolas did his PhD at IFISC under the supervision of researchers José Ramasco and Maxime Lenormand. His thesis entitled "A journey across the multiple scales of human mobility", was defended last year 2019. His contributions open new avenues for urban mobility from the perspective of complex systems. His most cited papers include: Systematic comparison of trip distribution laws and models. M Lenormand, A Bassolas, JJ Ramasco. Journal of Transport Geography 51, 158-169, 2016Hierarchical organization of urban mobility and its connection with city livability. A Bassolas, H Barbosa Filho, B Dickinson, X Dotiwalla, P. Eastham, Nature communications 10 (1), 1-10, 2019Touristic site attractiveness seen through Twitter. A Bassolas, M Lenormand, A Tugores, B Gonçalves, JJ Ramasco. EPJ Data Science 5 (1), 1-9, 2016In order to recognize exceptional contributions to the science of complex systems the society established in 2014 the junior scientific award aimed at recognizing extraordinary scientific achievements by CSS young researchers (within 7 years of PhD completion). In addition to Bassolas, the researchers Michelle Feng (University of California) and William Gilpin (University of Texas) have been awarded in this category.
http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/ifisc-researcher-wins-emerging-researcher-…
Conference on Complex Systems CCS 2022
IFISC
(UIB-CSIC) organizes the Conference on
Complex Systems, CCS 2022. The conference will take place next October,
17-21 at the Palma Auditorium. More than 600 researchers, from all over the
world and from different fields of complexity science, will gather to learn
from each other and establish the state of the art in complex systems research.
The CCS is the largest and most important annual
meeting of the international complex systems community and it comes under the
auspices of the Complex Systems Society.
The talks will cover topics related to the science of complex systems such as
Economics and Finance, Social systems, Ecological systems, City Science,
Mobility and Transport, Energy, Environment, Climate and Global change, Complex
Networks…
Thematic keynote, invited and
contributed talks, a poster session, round-table discussions and a public event
will contribute to a rich program. The conference aims to represent a broad
spectrum of topics on Complex Systems. Keynote speakers include:
Elsa Arcaute, University
College London UCL, UKJean-Philippe
Bouchaud, CFM & Académie des Sciences, FranceJesús
Gómez Gardeñes, Universidad de Zaragoza, SpainPaula
Hidalgo, UN Pulse, USA-UgandaPaulien Hogeweg, University
of Utrech, NetherlandsMarton
Karsai, Central European University, Vienna.Filippo
Menczer, Indiana University, USAAnxo
Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.Wolf
Singer, FIAS, Frankfurt, GermanyAnna Traveset, IMEDEA
(CSIC-UIB), SpainPhilip Walther, University
of Vienna, Austria
A dissemination session in Spanish
open to general public will be held on Thursday 21, in Auditorium’s Sala Mozart
at 7 p.m. The session, aimed to approach science to society, is entitled
"Complejidad para Comprender la Sociedad”, and includes “World Wide Waste Web: Red de comercio internacional de basuras” by Ernesto Estrada (IFISC); “Leyes
de Movilidad Humana: desde el individuo a emisiones vehículos en ciudades” by Marta González (UC Berkeley
and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and “Aquellos maravillosos años: los círculos de
Dunbar y las amistades en el instituto” by Anxo Sánchez (Universidad Carlos III).
Also, coinciding with the CCS and
profiting the opportunity offered by the presence of a wide variety of experts
in different topics, a school for PhD students and early-stage researchers is
organized in the Sa Riera bulding of the UIB, the CCS Warm-up. The school aims
to offer young researchers the opportunity to learn new methods, present their
work and meet fellow researchers.
This
edition of the conference, organized by IFISC, takes place after previous
events held in Lyon, Singapore, Thessaloniki and Cancun.
www.ccs2022.orghttp://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/ccs-2022/
IFISC researcher Massimiliano Zanin to share best practices at Balearic Islands ERC Proposal Reading Days
IFISC, together
with the UIB European Projects Office (OPE), the Spanish Foundation for Science
and Technology (FECyT), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the
Direcció General de Política Universitària i Recerca (DGPUR) are organizing a
full day activity in the Balearic Islands on the European Research Council/ ERC
Grants, meant to stimulate investigator-driven frontier research in Europe
through competitive funding across all fields, on the basis of scientific
excellence.
The ERC Proposal Reading
Days will be held on October 11 at the UIB. This initiative will
offer future ERC Grant candidates the opportunity to learn more about
the modalities of participation, as well as read some of the proposals that
were funded in previous calls.
IFISC researcher Massimiliano Zanin, beneficiary of an ERC Starting Grant, will
participate in an exchange of best practices with Marta Puxan (UIB, ERC
Consolidator Grant), Anna Traveset (IMEDEA, ERC Advanced Grant), Luis M.
Martínez (IN-CSIC-UMH, ERC Synergy Grant) and Estefanía Muñoz (FECyT, ERC
National Contact Point Spain).
For more information about the ERC Reading Days 2022 please consult: https://www.horizonteeuropa.es/erc-proposal-reading-days-2022http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/ifisc-researcher-massimiliano-zanin-share-…
We welcome the new students of the Master’s Degree in Physics of Complex Systems
Today we welcome the new students who will be taking
the renewed IFISC Master in Physics of Complex Systems during this academic
year. 11 students from 4 countries, graduated in different
bachelors such as physics, computer science or Earth sciences, have enrolled
our master's degree. These students will take the new syllabus for the first
time.
Last year the IFISC Faculty decided to update the
Master’s contents and skills. Within the block of core subjects, the program
makes a special emphasis on Data Science, Machine Learning and Information
Theory, since these fields are consolidating within Complex Systems research
and are increasingly important for complex science practitioners. On the other
hand, the number of elective courses increase, allowing students to specialize
in the branch of Complex Systems science of their interest.
The Master's Degree in Physics of Complex Systems
was created in 2012 with unique characteristics based on interdisciplinarity,
novelty and rigor. More than one hundred students have since been trained in
its classrooms, achieving high levels of excellence and satisfaction.
http://ifisc.uib-csic.es/en/news/we-welcome-new-students-masters-degree-phy…