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Intro-IFISC 2013
July 31, 2013
Seven undergraduate students will stay at IFISC during summer initiating themselves in research tasks thanks to the IFISC Summer Introduction-to-Research Fellowships. They come from the Universities of Valencia, Barcelona and Balearic Islands, and have been selected among 56 applicants from ...
IFISC Colloquium Montse Casas in memoriam by Angel Plastino
July 31, 2013
Montse Casas in memoriam: Fisher information, supersymmetry and variable mass
July 19, 2013
This is a special Colloquium that looks back on the research activity of Montse Casas (1955-2013), member of IFISC since its foundation and also Rector of UIB ...
El aleteo de una mariposa sigue provocando tornados
May 2, 2013
En marzo de 1963, el matemático y meteorólogo estadounidense Edward Lorenz dejó bien claro porqué los hombres del tiempo se equivocan tanto. Bajo el anodino título de Flujo determinista no-periódico, publicó un artículo que, 50 años después, es uno de ...
Complex photonics: Dynamics and applications of delay-coupled semiconductors lasers
April 30, 2013
Complex phenomena in photonics, in particular the dynamical properties of semiconductor lasers due to delayed coupling, are reviewed in the paper published in Reviews of Modern Physics. Although considered a nuisance for a long time, these phenomena now open interesting ...
Opening Science
March 4, 2013
El Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (CSIC-UIB), en colaboración con la Delegación del CSIC en las Illes Balears y la Universitat de les Illes Balears, coordina el curso de divulgación científica “Abriendo la ciencia”. El curso, una iniciativa ...
Which is the best operation we can perform to transform a classical state in a quantum one?
March 4, 2013
In a recently published work, Fernando Galve and Roberta Zambrini at IFISC, in collaboration with Francesco Plastina (Università della Calabria, Italy) and Matteo Paris (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy), provided an answer to this fundamental question. An indicator of ...
Open Day @ IFISC
March 4, 2013
IFISC organized on February 21, 2013 an Open Day addressed mostly to college and master students. The attendees received information on the different IFISC research lines, visited the experimental labs and the Computational facilities and were briefed on the opportunities ...
Collective phenomena in Wikipedia: Cooperation and conflict
March 4, 2013
The process of conflict resolution in Wikipedia, an iconic, collaboratively edited encyclopedia, is described as the result of the competition between direct interactions among editors and their interactions with a globally shared medium, such as a Wikipedia article. Darwin himself ...
Workshop on Urban Development and Global Systems Science
Feb. 12, 2013
EUNOIA (Evolutive User-centric Networks for Intraurban Accessibility) is a research project funded under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme ICT Programme. The goal of EUNOIA is to take advantage of the opportunities brought by smart city technologies and the ...
Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network
Feb. 1, 2013
The upsetting consequences of flight delays are well known to any traveler. What is less well understood is how these delays rise, propagate and eventually involve an important part of the airport network. In this work Fleurquin, Ramasco and Eguiluz ...