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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 ...
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 ...