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IFISC People: David Abella, Annalisa Caligiuri, Juan Manuel García and Lucía Ramírez
Feb. 1, 2021
We are glad to introduce David Abella, Annalisa
Caligiuri, Juan Manuel García and Lucía Ramirez to the other IFISC members.
David Abella studied physics at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and took the IFISC's
Master in Physics of Complex Systems ...
Experimental evidence of the Radar COVID application
Jan. 27, 2021
Identifying
the contacts with whom an infected person has been is key in any
pandemic to stop the spread of the pathogen. This can be done
manually, by asking the sick person, however it is an extremely slow
and complex ...
Conseller d’Educació, Universitat i Recerca visits IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
Jan. 22, 2021
On January 22, the conseller
d'Educació, Universitat i Recerca del Govern de les Illes Balears Martí March, accompanied by the secretaria
autonómica de Universitat, Recerca i Política Lingüística, Agustina Vilaret, and the director
general de Política Universitària i Recerca ...
Defining the 'temperature' of language features
Jan. 22, 2021
It is estimated that 'modern' human
language has been with us for at least 100,000 years. Unfortunately, the
historical evolution of languages is often poorly documented, and evidence does
not go further back in time than the moment when ...
IFISC researcher coedits a book on Mesoscopic Physics
Jan. 12, 2021
IFISC
(UIB-CSIC) researcher David Sánchez recently edited, together with Kharkiv
Polytechnic Institute researcher Michael Moskalets, a book entitled Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems.
The book
includes 19 review papers and research articles from a Special Issue published
in the interdisciplinary ...
The Andreev-Coulomb effect in quantum dots
Dec. 28, 2020
Quantum
dots are nanoscale systems where electrons are confined in the three spatial
dimensions. This unique feature allows us to control the current that passes
through a quantum dot, which thus shows properties similar to a transistor. A
remarkable transport ...
The University of the Balearic Islands and the Sicomoro Foundation sign a collaboration agreement
Dec. 17, 2020
The Rector of the University of the Balearic Islands,
Llorenç Huguet, and the President and founder of the Sicomoro
Foundation, José María
Fuster van Bendegem, signed today a collaboration agreement between UIB, FUEIB
and the foundation through the Institute of ...
IFISC places its Non-linear Photonics Laboratory at the forefront of ultra-fast information processing research worldwide
Dec. 17, 2020
In order to upgrade and extend its experimental
capabilities in the field of complex photonics research, IFISC (UIB-CSIC) has
acquired new equipment for its Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory consisting of an ultra-fast
system for the generation and detection of photonic signals ...
IFISC publishes a monograph on the COVID-19 pandemic in the Medicina Balear journal
Dec. 14, 2020
A
multidisciplinary approach, which comes from collaboration between different
branches of knowledge, is key to being able to analyse how the COVID-19
pandemic has affected our society. For this reason, since the state of alarm
was activated in March, researchers ...
An IFISC Master's student chosen as a finalist in the TalenTIC awards
Dec. 4, 2020
The technology consultancy Informática El Corte
Inglés (INETUM) and the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) have
awarded the fifth edition of the TalenTIC prizes for Degree theses
(TFG) and Master theses (TFM) aimed at innovations in information and
communications ...