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Boosting the output power of lasers by breaking their symmetry
Nov. 11, 2021
More uniform light intensity profiles are possible in
large-aperture semiconductor lasers if the optical aperture is intentionally
deformed. An international team from Łodz University of Technology, Institute
of Microelectronics and Photonics in Warsaw, Technical University of Berlin,
and IFISC (UIB-CSIC ...
IFISC and IMEDEA organize the V Symposium on Ecological Networks
Nov. 5, 2021
Researchers from IFISC and IMEDEA organize the V Symposium on ecological networks (ECONET) in Palma. The event will
be held between November 10 and 12, and will bring together, for the first
time, biologists and theoretical physicists who work on ...
Voces, CSIC Balears: Artificial Intelligence, laser and Reservoir Computing
Oct. 20, 2021
IFISC
(UIB-CSIC) and the Institutional Representation of CSIC in the
Balearic Islands join forces and create "Voces, CSIC Balears",
a bimonthly podcast for the dissemination of science. Through
interviews with scientists working at CSIC's centres in the Balearic
Islands ...
Disease outbreak simulations reveal influence of “seeding” by multiple infected people
Oct. 14, 2021
A new
computational analysis suggests that, beyond the initial effect of one infected
person arriving and spreading disease to a previously uninfected population,
the continuous arrival of more infected individuals has a significant influence
on the evolution and severity of ...
IFISC participates in the development of the CSIC's White Book on Scientific Challenges 2030
Oct. 11, 2021
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is
launching 14 strategic themes to coordinate cutting-edge, multidisciplinary
research teams to expand the frontiers of knowledge in areas such as the origin
of life, the composition of matter, space exploration, the functioning of ...
Nobel Prize in Physics for Complex Systems Research
Oct. 5, 2021
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klauss Hasselmann “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”. This year’s Laureates have all ...
A new world down there, finalist in the 2nd UIB Science Communication Competition
Oct. 4, 2021
David Sánchez, researcher at IFISC (UIB-CSIC),
has been selected as a finalist in the 2nd Science Popularisation Competition
organised by the Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Institutional Relations and
the Unit for Scientific Culture and Innovation of the University of the ...
Assessing blackout risk in the power grid with high penetration of variable renewable energies
Sept. 27, 2021
Renewable energies related to the sun or wind will be
decisive in the transition to a 100% renewable energy system. These energy
sources have many advantages in terms of cost, efficiency and sustainability,
but they also represent a risk in ...
Nit de la Recerca 2021
Sept. 17, 2021
The European
Researchers' Night is a science outreach project promoted by the European
Commission as part of the Marie Sktodowska-Curie actions of the Horizon 2020
programme, and has been taking place simultaneously in more than 300 European
cities since 2005 ...
Deep Neural Networks using a single neuron
Sept. 13, 2021
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a useful
tool for a wide range of tasks such as image classification, object detection,
image resizing or text generation. They are extremely powerful, but they
require sufficient computing power and large data sets to ...