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11 February, International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Feb. 7, 2017
With the clear objective of "achieving full and equitable access to and participation in science for women and girls in order to achieve gender equality", the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed February 11 as the International Day of ...
The strength and the voice of the neighbor in our pocket
Jan. 30, 2017
The newspaper Ara Balears has published a report on the application 2GoodNeighbors, a star-up that "helps local communities and users who need to interchange tariffs and services". The IFISC collaborates in the development of a smart-chat integrated in the application ...
What are the Complex Socio-Technical Systems? Challenges in the framework of Spanish science
Jan. 30, 2017
What are Complex Socio-Technological Systems? In June 2016 researchers and doctoral students of the IFISC attended the second Workshop on Complex Sociotechnical Systems organized by the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de la Universitat de València, the Asociación para el ...
Open doors day + Poster party @IFISC 2017
Jan. 16, 2017
Monday 6th February 2017, Seminar room IFISC – Montserrat Casas
One more year and coinciding with the celebration of its 10 years, the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC-CSIC / UIB) organizes its open day destined to university students of ...
The journal Entropy selects an IFISC paper as front page
Dec. 12, 2016
The rapid progress in the manipulation of small systems at submicron scales has spurred the interest in the field of quantum thermodynamics. The goals of this discipline is the understanding of the fundamentals of thermodynamics in quantum systems typically driven ...
Seminal paper by IFISC researchers on applications of chaos reaches 1000 citations
Dec. 5, 2016
11 years ago, researchers from 6 European countries, collaborating within the European project OCCULT, coordinated by IFISC researcher Claudio Mirasso, published a seminal paper demonstrating the functional utilisation of complex dynamics in optics (1). The paper successfully demonstrated the utilisation ...
IFISC seeks the collaboration of Palma's local Government for state of the art projects on mobility and cities as Complex Systems
Oct. 26, 2016
The Institute for Cross Disciplinary and Complex systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) on Campus UIB received today the visit of the Mayor of Palma, José Hila, and the Councilor for Education and Sports, Susana Moll. They met the IFISC’s Governing Board ...
IFISC organizes the conference 'Crossroads in Complex Systems'
Sept. 14, 2016
On occasion of IFISC 10th anniversary next 2017. we have organised the Conference "Crossroads in Complex Systems". The conference will take place next June, 5-8. http://crossroads2017.ifisc.uib-csic.es/Thematic keynote, invited and contributed talks, a poster session, round-table ...
IFISC and 2GN start a collaboration
Sept. 5, 2016
IFISC has started a collaboration with 2GN, an AAPP that aims to revitalize neighborhoods and relationships between neighbors through the social economy by using new technologies.IFISC collaborates with this innovative initiative to deepen in the research of sociotechnical systems.
Researchers from IFISC and Stanford show the drag effect in quantum dots
Aug. 5, 2016
A scientific collaboration between IFISC and Stanford University has demonstrated for the first time the drag effect between correlated electrons in quantum dots. A quantum dot is a nanoscale system where electrons become confined in the three spatial directions. When ...