Notícies
IFISC People: Josu Blanco, Sreetama Das and Javier Osca
Nov. 11, 2024
We are pleased to introduce Josu Blanco, Sreetama Das and Javier Osca to the rest of the IFISC members.Josu Blanco, originally from Donostia-San Sebastian, holds a degree in Physics from the University of Cantabria and a Master's degree in Plasma …
David Abella, IFISC researcher, awarded at the second edition of the UIB Chair of Urban Studies Awards
Nov. 11, 2024
The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), through the Chair of Urban Studies, has announced the winners of the second edition of its annual awards. On this occasion, the prize for doctoral research has been awarded to David Abella Bujalance, …
New mathematical framework reveals architecture of biotic interactions
Oct. 25, 2024
An interdisciplinary team with IFISC participation has developed a model that integrates multiple types of biotic interactions in a single framework. What is innovative about this mathematical framework is that it is not limited to ecological networks, but can be …
Researchers analyze how our relationships affect the adoption of innovations
Oct. 21, 2024
The study, published in PNAS Nexus, reveals that indirect connections in social networks influence the adoption of innovations, with an impact that reaches up to two-thirds that of direct contacts.The experiment demonstrates that the influence of friends of friends can …
How European vineyards dodged a devastating American disease
Oct. 15, 2024
Study reveals how Europe escaped Pierce's disease and warns of increasing risk due to climate change A team of researchers, including researchers from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has revealed the reasons why European vineyards escaped the devastating Pierce's disease, caused by the …
Breaking the Barrier: Engineered Dissipation to Overcome Barren Plateaus in Quantum Algorithms
Oct. 7, 2024
A team of researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) has unveiled a groundbreaking approach to tackle one of the most significant challenges in quantum computing: barren plateaus. This phenomenon severely restricts the performance of variational …
Signed networks model enhances understanding of global conflicts and alliances
Sept. 9, 2024
Researchers at IFISC and the University of Milano-Bicocca develop a model using signed networks to understand international relations.The study, published in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, proposes a local balance index to evaluate countries' contributions to global stability.The …
Maxi San Miguel wins the Best Teacher Award of the 2023-2024 master course
July 17, 2024
Maxi San Miguel, researcher at IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has been awarded the Best Teacher of the 2023-2024 academic year in the Master's program in Physics of Complex Systems at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). This award, funded by the …
Climate change boosts olive tree-devouring bacteria in the Mediterranean
June 3, 2024
New research focuses on the impact of global warming on infection of European vineyards by Xylella fastidiosa under different climatic scenarios. Xylella fastidiosa, the deadly disease-causing bacterium that has already wiped out millions of plants of emblematic Mediterranean crops, like …
New research proposes using mathematical tool to decipher complex social dynamics
May 31, 2024
Researchers at the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems develop a model that characterises the dynamics of group interactions The study, published in ‘Nature Communications’, uses temporal hypergraphs to study how conversation groups form in different social contexts Traditional …