Notícies
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 grapewines, …
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 …
Understanding the energy costs of computing
May 15, 2024
Researchers from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) UIB-CSIC (Mallorca, Spain), the University of Colorado, the Santa Fe Institute, and the The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), have made advancements that refine our fundamental …
PhD Student from IFISC Wins Award at CompleNet 2024 for Best Student Contribution
May 2, 2024
Fernando Díaz-Díaz, PhD student at IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has been honored with the best student contribution award at the 15th Conference on Complex Networks, CompleNet 2024. The conference recognized Díaz-Díaz's innovative work on signed networks which can significantly influence our understanding …
IFISC researcher Daniel Ruiz is awarded by the Cátedra del Mar Iberostar
April 9, 2024
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researcher Daniel Ruiz has won one of the prizes awarded by the Iberostar Cátedra del Mar to young researchers with his project "Aerial identification of seagrass meadows at risk using artificial intelligence". These awards promote research in marine …
La Resistència Científica 2.0 is back!
April 4, 2024
The CSIC Delegation in the Balearic Islands and IFISC present at CaixaForum Palma the cycle La Resistència Científica 2.0, a late night science show in which specialists from various research centers in the Balearic Islands will make relevant aspects of …
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) research on Quantum Reservoir Computing is highlighted by the editorial staff of Optics Express
Feb. 27, 2024
An IFISC study, published in Optics Express and featured as an Editor's Pick, reveals the potential of quantum squeezing in the machine learning architecture known as Reservoir Computing. A recent article published by IFISC researchers in Optics Express, entitled "Squeezing …