Notícies
Highways and railways can be traced in a map using Twitter Data, according to IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researchers
Nov. 12, 2014
"Tweets on the Road" is a mobility study done by researchers at the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, IFISC (CSIC / UIB) following geolocated tweets posted from the roads and railways of Europe between September 2012 and November …
EUNOIA final event: Big Data, Urban Models and Transport Planning: the EUNOIA project
Nov. 10, 2014
Cities are growing rapidly worldwide, and the quest for sustainable urban transport is becoming an increasingly urgent challenge for all major cities around the world. To make informed decisions, urban planners and policy makers need to evaluate the impact of …
The Catalan Way is clearly visible using geolocated tweets even an hour before the starting of the demonstration.
Sept. 12, 2014
The Catalan Way, shaping a V following Barcelona's main avenues, is clearly visible on a map by plotting geolocated tweets. The demonstration on occasion of the Day of Catalonia was called for 5:14 pm, today September, 11. This study has …
Summer School in Statistical Physics and Complex Systems, organized by the IFISC, hosts 40 students in its fourth edition
Sept. 9, 2014
Statistical Physics, which was born as an attempt to explain thermodynamic properties of systems from its atomic and molecular components, has evolved into a solid body of knowledge that allows for the understanding of macroscopic collective phenomena. One of the …
Crowdsourcing Dialect Characterization through Twitter
Aug. 12, 2014
Language is the most characteristic trait of human communication but takes on many heterogeneous forms. Dialects, in particular, are linguistic varieties which di er phonologically,gramatically or lexically in geographically separated regions. However, despite its fundamental importance and many recent developments, …
Professors Raul Toral and Pere Colet publish the book Stochastic Numerical Methods
Aug. 1, 2014
Stochastic Numerical Methods introduces at Master level the numerical methods that use probability or stochastic concepts to analyze random processes. The book aims at being rather general and is addressed at students of natural sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, etc.) …
Konstantin Hicke has presented his tesis “Synchronization and application of delay-coupled semiconductor lasers”
July 18, 2014
The work in this thesis is focused on the complex dynamics of semiconductor laser (SL) devices which receive time-delayed feedback from an external cavity or are delay-coupled with a second semiconductor laser. We investigate fundamental properties of the dynamics and …
Ricardo Martinez presented his tesis “Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics in Ecology: Vegetation patterns, Animal mobility and temporal fluctuations”
July 9, 2014
El estudio de patrones de vegetación y los movimientos colectivos de animales centran la tesis de Ricardo Martinez en el IFISC Los patrones son formas que se crean y se repiten a menudo en la naturaleza. Granos de arena, formaciones …
54 students opted for SURF fellowships
July 2, 2014
El Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC), centro mixto de la UIB y el CSIC, contará este verano con 7 becarios de introducción a la investigación, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF). A la convocatoria, que exigía tener aprobados …