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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 ...
Complex Pints
Nov. 8, 2017
On October 7, students enrolled at the the Master in Complex Systems, official
degree taught by IFISC, organized the outreach event Complex Pints at Cafè Teatre Tertúlia. As part of the “Introduction
to Complex Systems” subject the students had the ...
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 ...
COSTNET17
Oct. 18, 2017
A major challenge in many modern economic, epidemiological, ecological and biological questions is to understand the randomness in the network structure of the entities they study: for example, the SARS epidemic showed how preventing epidemics relies on a keen understanding ...
A researcher of IFISC wins a RSEF-BBVA Foundation Physics award
Oct. 2, 2017
Raúl Toral, researcher of IFISC, has been awarded with the prize for the best teaching article in the Spanish Royal Society of Physics (RSEF) publications. RSEF - BBVA Foundation Physics Awards, given annually, recognize creativity, effort and achievement in the field ...
Summer School on Complex Socio-Technical Systems
Sept. 5, 2017
The science of complex systems has a privileged position to contribute greatly to the advancement of knowledge in social and economic systems. In this context, the ease of information technology in generating large amounts of data has brought an unprecedented ...
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 ...
A PhD student of IFISC wins the LT28 best poster award
Aug. 23, 2017
IFISC PhD student Miguel A. Sierra has won the “Best Poster Award” given by the organization of the 28th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT28). The Low Temperature Physics Conference is an international event held every three years, under ...
A study unravels the formation of 'fairy circles' in the posidonia meadows
Aug. 17, 2017
Los llamados ‘círculos de hadas’ son claros sin vegetación de forma circular que surgen en las praderas submarinas de Posidonia oceanica del Mediterráneo, entre otros entornos. Hasta ahora se desconocía como se forman estos vacíos, pero un nuevo modelo matemático ...