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Towards a better characterization of molecular transistors
March 5, 2018
An international team of researchers proposes a new method that uses
magnetic fields to distinguish between molecular junctions with and without
electronic interactions.Molecular junctions are nanoscale electronic devices consisting of two metallic
electrodes and a molecule sandwiched between them ...
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships SURF@IFISC 2018
Feb. 23, 2018
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC,
UIB-CSIC) announces the 2018 SURF@IFISC (Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellowships) program, addressed to
undergraduate students interested in having a first contact with scientific
research in the field of Complex Systems. These ...
VIII Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems
Feb. 16, 2018
The VIII
Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex Systems is now open for
applications. The School, promoted by the Topical Group on Statistical and
Nonlinear Physics (GEFENOL) of the Spanish Physical Society, is organized by
IFISC (CSIC-UIB) and will ...
IFISC People: Alessandro Sozza
Feb. 1, 2018
IFISC people is a new way to introduce new IFISC members to
the rest of the research staff.
We are glad
to introduce Alessandro Sozza to the other IFISC members. Alessandro is
originally from Turin (Italy), where he completed a ...
11F: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Jan. 29, 2018
The United
Nations General Assembly decided to proclaim 11 February as International Day
of Women and Girls in Science with the aim of achieving full and equal access
to science for girls and women. Within this framework, the platform 11FBalears ...
Open doors day + Poster Party @IFISC 2018
Jan. 25, 2018
Once
again this year, the Institute
for Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC, CSIC-UIB) organizes an “Open
Day” aimed at undergraduate students at the University of the Balearic Islands
with the objective of getting to know the research activities carried ...
High frequency neurons determine effective connectivity in neural networks
Jan. 15, 2018
Understanding how information is routed and processed
in the brain is essential to understand its operation.
However, this is not an easy task: the brain is a extremely
complex network containing billions of neurons, each with its
own connections. In ...
QTD Website launch
Nov. 22, 2017
IFISC
(CSIC-UIB) launches the new QTD Website, a platform for announcements of conferences, workshops, schools,
journals special issues, positions and any other
event related to Quantum Thermodynamics. QTD is a network of
researchers that was first set up as the ...
It's not quantum mechanics that's weird - it's us
Nov. 20, 2017
Quantum theory is famously mind-boggling. But do its paradoxes mean we haven’t yet understood it?Quantum mechanics is so notoriously difficult that Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman cheerfully admitted that even he didn’t understand it.The reason is not ...
Director of Agencia Estatal de Investigación visites IFISC
Nov. 13, 2017
Director of
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Sra. Villegas, visited IFISC past 10
November. The visit started with a presentation of the Institute given by IFISC’s
research staff, emphasizing both the work carried out during the 10 years of ...