Notícies
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 …
Measuring bottlenecks in the ocean
Sept. 1, 2021
The ocean provides a fluid environment with complex patterns of flow and dispersal for the organisms that live within it. How these flows transport organisms is relevant for biodiversity with potentially important implications for ecosystem health and climate. An international …
Dynamical phase transitions in quantum Reservoir Computing
Aug. 23, 2021
Information can be processed by physical, chemical and biological systems with a major example being our brain. In this context, quantum reservoir computing is a promising approach in the fields of complex systems and artificial neural networks characterized by a …
Game theory to understand rigged economies
July 27, 2021
From Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' to the very tangible effect of corruption and market manipulation, economic systems have always been under suspicion. "The game is rigged!" is often heard as a slogan to denounce injustices or counter-intuitive behavior given the …
67 students competed for SURF@IFISC 2021 fellowships
July 15, 2021
67 students from 26 universities and 6 different countries competed for the seven fellowships offered in the 2021 edition of SURF@IFISC. The SURF program is part of one of the IFISC compromises: to offer training for the future generations of …
GIGABYTE highlights IFISC's research work with its hardware
June 16, 2021
GIGABYTE, one of the world's leading hardware manufacturers, has published an article on its website describing IFISC research carried out by means of their products. VPP4Islands, SuMaECO, ARCTIC, Xylella and DISTANCIA-COVID are examples of research projects that benefit from the …
Voces, CSIC Balears: Reservoir Computing, artificial intelligence and quantum physics
June 8, 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 (IMEDEA …
IFISC People: Felipe Olivares and Luisina Pastorino
June 7, 2021
We are pleased to announce that Felipe Olivares and Luisina Pastorino join IFISC within the ARCTIC (Air Transport as Information and Computation) project under the supervision of Dr. Massimiliano Zanin. Felipe Olivares got his PhD degree in physics on Information …