Notícies
Big Data to characterize the spatial integration of immigrant communities
March 15, 2018
A research team analyzes the spatial integration of immigrant communities using language detection and tweet localization Due to the globalization process, the world's major metropolises are increasingly characterized by a growing heterogeneity in their populations. Newly arrived immigrants face challenges …
Big Data to study marine fauna
March 9, 2018
An international research team maps the trajectories of 2500 animals from 50 different species to understand how they travel through the ocean. Understanding the mechanisms that govern the movement of marine animals is essential to facilitate their conservation. An international …
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. The …
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 scholarships, …
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 …