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IFISC participated in the II Fira de la Ciència i la Tecnologia d'Inca
Oct. 31, 2017
Members of IFISC (Claudio R. Mirasso, Cristian Estarellas, Marcos Galletero and Adrián García) participated in the II Fira de la Ciència i la Tecnologia d’Inca (October 28-30). Both seniors and children were able to visit the IFISC stand in ...
PhD Thesis: Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices
Oct. 19, 2017
We are proud to congratulate Maria Isabel Alomar on the recent successful defense of her thesis work, "Spin and charge transport in thermally and AC driven nanodevices", supervised by David Sánchez.Her thesis, defended on Monday 9th October, deals with ...
Reversal of thermoelectric current in tubular nanowires
Sept. 4, 2017
An international team of researchers, including an IFISC (CSIC-UIB) member, predicts an inversed current in nanowires subjected to strong thermal gradients.The thermoelectric effect arises when the sides of a conductive material are held at different temperatures. The resulting energy ...
Robin Hood, from the bow to Big Data
June 30, 2017
Tal como hiciera Robin Hood luchando contra la desigualdad en la distribución de la riqueza en Nottingham armado con su arco, un estudio publicado por investigadores españoles y franceses propone un método para promover la redistribución de oportunidades económicas en ...
Explorando las fronteras entre saberes X. De la biología a las ciencias sociales: Nuevos retos en el campo de los sistemas complejos
May 18, 2017
La celebración del décimo aniversario del Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC, UIB-CSIC), coincide con la décima edición del ciclo Explorando las Fronteras entre Saberes que, como viene siendo habitual, es coordinado e impulsado por el IFISC y ...
Análisis de big data para caracterizar el movimiento animal
May 17, 2017
Un equipo de investigadores del IFISC (CSIC-UIB) determina que el movimiento de los elefantes marinos viene dado tanto por la memoria como por la búsqueda de alimentoEl análisis de patrones de movimiento en animales requería hasta ahora un trabajo previo ...
Pint of Science 2017
April 28, 2017
Los días 15, 16 y 17 de Mayo en el Palma 80’s Café se celebrará por primera vez en las Islas Baleares el festival de divulgación científica Pint of Science con el objetivo de acercar la ciencia al público ...
IFISC receives the visit of students from IES Llucmajor
March 28, 2017
On March 23rd, a group of students from IES Llucmajor visited IFISC. The visit started with a presentation of the institute followed by a brief introduction to complex systems’ science done by the Deputy Director Emilio Hernández-García, who also presented ...
A PhD student of IFISC is selected in the FOTCIENCIA14 contest
March 3, 2017
Fotciencia, a national scientific photography contest, has selected the photograph El árbol pendular, presented by IFISC PhD student Jorge Pablo Rodríguez. The competition, which celebrates its fourteenth edition, has made public the catalog of selected works that will be part ...
IFISC researchers demonstrate novel encryption scheme
Feb. 27, 2017
Encryption is a key technology for ensuring privacy for our digital communication. Researchers from IFISC in collaboration with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles have demonstrated a novel encryption scheme that is based on chaos synchronizing ...