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Nobel Prize in Physics for Complex Systems Research
Oct. 5, 2021
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klauss Hasselmann “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”. This year’s Laureates have all ...
A new world down there, finalist in the 2nd UIB Science Communication Competition
Oct. 4, 2021
David Sánchez, researcher at IFISC (UIB-CSIC),
has been selected as a finalist in the 2nd Science Popularisation Competition
organised by the Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Institutional Relations and
the Unit for Scientific Culture and Innovation of the University of the ...
Assessing blackout risk in the power grid with high penetration of variable renewable energies
Sept. 27, 2021
Renewable energies related to the sun or wind will be
decisive in the transition to a 100% renewable energy system. These energy
sources have many advantages in terms of cost, efficiency and sustainability,
but they also represent a risk in ...
Nit de la Recerca 2021
Sept. 17, 2021
The European
Researchers' Night is a science outreach project promoted by the European
Commission as part of the Marie Sktodowska-Curie actions of the Horizon 2020
programme, and has been taking place simultaneously in more than 300 European
cities since 2005 ...
Deep Neural Networks using a single neuron
Sept. 13, 2021
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a useful
tool for a wide range of tasks such as image classification, object detection,
image resizing or text generation. They are extremely powerful, but they
require sufficient computing power and large data sets to ...
Measuring bottlenecks in the ocean
Sept. 1, 2021
The
ocean provides a fluid environment with complex patterns of flow and
dispersal for the organisms that live within it. How these flows
transport organisms is relevant for biodiversity with potentially
important implications for ecosystem health and climate. An
international ...
Dynamical phase transitions in quantum Reservoir Computing
Aug. 23, 2021
Information can be processed by physical,
chemical and biological systems with a major example being our brain. In this
context, quantum reservoir computing is a promising approach in the fields of
complex systems and artificial neural networks characterized by a ...
Game theory to understand rigged economies
July 27, 2021
From Adam
Smith's 'invisible hand' to the very tangible effect of corruption and market
manipulation, economic systems have always been under suspicion. "The game
is rigged!" is often heard as a slogan to denounce injustices or
counter-intuitive behavior given ...
67 students competed for SURF@IFISC 2021 fellowships
July 15, 2021
67 students from 26 universities and 6
different countries competed for the seven fellowships offered in the 2021
edition of SURF@IFISC. The SURF program is part of one of the IFISC
compromises: to offer training for the future generations ...
GIGABYTE highlights IFISC's research work with its hardware
June 16, 2021
GIGABYTE, one of the world's leading hardware
manufacturers, has published an article on its website describing
IFISC research carried out by means of their products. VPP4Islands,
SuMaECO, ARCTIC, Xylella and DISTANCIA-COVID are examples of research
projects that benefit from ...