News
Monitoring the economy through air transport
Sept. 4, 2023
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researcher Massimiliano Zanin has successfully secured the "RE-TE" (Regional Economy-Travel Expectations) project. This project is part of the ERC Proof of Concept initiative and its main
objective is to monitor the economic situation at European, national and local ...
How networks avoid collapsing under heavy navigational use?
July 25, 2023
IFISC researchers discover that the evolution of networks has a hidden mechanism for naturally creating bypasses that facilitate navigability.The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, shows how bypasses exist in various networks ...
Dr. Ernesto Estrada, IFISC researcher, elected Fellow of the Network Science Society
July 14, 2023
Dr. Ernesto Estrada, researcher at IFISC
(CSIC-UIB), has been elected Fellow by the prestigious Network Science Society
(NetSci). As one of only six individuals elected in the class of 2023, Dr.
Estrada's exceptional contributions to the field of network ...
IFISC People: Sara Cloux and Dhafer Ferchichi
July 6, 2023
We are glad to introduce Sara Cloux and Dhafer Ferchichi to the other IFISC members.Sara Cloux completed her doctorate in Marine Sciences, Technologies, and Management at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her research focused on the Lagrangian transport ...
IFISC hosts the Complexity72h workshop
June 23, 2023
IFISC (Institute of Cross-disciplinary Physics
and Complex Systems, UIB-CSIC) will host
the fourth edition of the Complexity72h workshop, which will take place at
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on June 26-30 2023.
Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop
for young researchers in ...
The language puzzle: how Physics helps unlock linguistic mysteries
June 22, 2023
The field of language dynamics, which
applies physics to linguistics, is a relatively new interdisciplinary area of
research. Physicists have successfully used their methods to study various
aspects of language. By analyzing linguistic data and using mathematical
models, physicists have ...
Unveiling the role of Coulomb interactions in high-energy electron collisions
June 15, 2023
A group of three research teams, in which IFISC
(UIB-CSIC) researcher Sungguen Ryu participated, have conducted groundbreaking
experiments demonstrating that high-energy
electrons repel each other upon collision in a beam splitter due to strong
Coulomb interactions. These results clearly show ...
The eminent scientist Margarita del Val will give a lecture at UIB on interdisciplinary research in epidemics
June 13, 2023
The CSIC Representation in the Balearic
Islands, the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and the Institute of
Cross-disciplinary Physics in Complex Systems (IFISC, UIB-CSIC) are organizing
the lecture "Investigación
interdisciplinar en epidemias desde la Plataforma de Salud Global del ...
IFISC (UIB-CSIC) researchers present a new quantum method of pattern classification
June 1, 2023
Researchers at IFISC (UIB-CSIC) have proposed
a novel method for pattern classification using a single nonlinear quantum
oscillator instead of a lattice of spins (bits). The study, published in the
prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, focuses on the implementation of ...
New tool to predict the optimal time of intervention to control the nymphs of Philaenus spumarius, insect vector of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe
May 18, 2023
Researchers
from two CSIC institutes developed a predictive tool that can help limit the
populations of the main insect vector of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which causes diseases that seriously
affect several key crops in our agriculture, such as olive ...