Archive for year: 2014
Collective Behaviour in Biological Systems
Highlights
Stormi superfluidi e sciami critici
Cover of Nature Physics, September 2014… Read the rest
Ordine dei Servizi Tecnici
Servizi Tecnici UOS – ISC di Tor Vergata 16/12/2014… Read the rest
Ordini dei servizi amministrativi
Ordini dei servizi amministrativi del 16/12/2014… Read the rest
Officina Meccanica
Il Servizio fornisce un’attività di supporto tecnico ai gruppi di ricerca sperimentali di tutte le UOS afferenti all’ISC ed al settore manutenzione degli impianti meccanici e termici dell’Area di Ricerca di Tor Vergata.
L’attività prevalentemente consiste nella progettazione e conseguente realizzazione di componentistica meccanica, apparati sperimentali, prototipi e di attrezzature di supporto alle ricerche.
Gli addetti al servizio sono:
L’ufficio progettazione si avvale di una stazione grafica in ambiente Autocad 2011 per lo studio, la progettazione e la realizzazione dei disegni costruttivi dei vari dispositivi meccanici sperimentali.… Read the rest
Comptes Rendus Physique – special issue on coarsening dynamics
Coarsening is a widespread and much studied phenomenon, historically related to phase separation, but also found in other out of equilibrium systems. Coarsening is a common feature of pattern formation, it may accompany the dynamics of driven systems, and it is a natural outcome of kinetic roughening phenomena.
The list of confirmed contributions and the links to papers on arXiv is here.… Read the rest
Booklet presents research at UOS Sapienza
The first booklet of UOS Sapienza with the description of many research topics for students and interested researchers… Read the rest
Physics of Complexity @ ISC-Sapienza – 17 Novembre 2014
Pomeriggio tematico sulle attività dell’UOS Sapienza
http://www.isc.cnr.it/events/poc-isc/… Read the rest
Rules and Exceptions in Language Dynamics
In all languages, rules have exceptions in the form of irregularities. Since rules make a language efficient, the persistence of irregularity is an anomaly. How language systems become rule governed, how and why they sustain exceptions to rules? Frequent words are unlikely to change over time (e.g., frequent verbs tend to maintain an irregular past tense form). What is the role of frequency in maintaining exceptions to rules?… Read the rest
Mixing by degree in signed social networks
Social networks have empirically been found to be assortative (i.e., the degree of neighboring nodes are positively correlated), while other networks (e.g., technological, biological) show the opposite pattern (disassortative). Why is that so?
How do these patterns change in signed networks, where relations indicate trust/distrust, friendship/enmity? Do individuals who dislike many others tend to dislike each other, or do they dislike those who dislike only very few others?… Read the rest
Dynamics of Virus-Host interaction
In the case of fast mutating viruses (e.g., Influenza virus), the virus-host interaction is driven by cross-immunity: after being infected by a strain, the host acquires immunity to a set of other strains antigenically similar to the infecting one (i.e., triggering the same host immune response). The evolutionary dynamics of viruses is therefore ruled by their relative antigenic distance. Can we understand the non trivial relation between antigenic and genetic distance?… Read the rest
Fractures and crack propagation
The intermittent and self-similar fluctuations displayed by a slow crack during the propagation in a heterogeneous medium can be quantitatively described by an extension of a classical statistical model for fracture. The model yields the correct dynamical and morphological scaling, and allows to demonstrate that the scale invariance originates from the presence of a non-equilibrium, reversible, critical transition which, in the presence of dissipation, gives rise to self-organized critical behaviour.… Read the rest
In the news: Single-neuron ‘hub’ orchestrates activity of an entire brain circuit
Science Daily
News Duet
Daily News
S. Luccioli, E. Ben-Jacob, A. Barzilai, P. Bonifazi, and A. Torcini
“Clique of functional hubs orchestrates population bursts in developmentally regulated neural networks“,
PLOS Computational Biology
(2014) Published: September 25, 2014:… Read the rest
Workshop “Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi” Oct 27
AULA CONVEGNI – P.LE ALDO MORO, 7 – ROMA
Programma
Inizio 9:30
INTERVENTI
10:00 Luciano Pietronero, Dove va la complessità
10:20 Stefano Ruffo, Fisica delle interazioni a lungo raggio
10:40 Angelo Vulpiani, Leggi senza leggi: “solo” teoremi limite?
11:00 PAUSA CAFFE’
11:30 Francesco Sciortino, Gel di equilibrio e liquidi ultrastabili: fisica interessante con la materia soffice
11:50 Fabio Sciarrino, Complessità quantistica e campionamento bosonico
12:10 Francesco Sylos Labini, Il tramonto della ricerca italiana?… Read the rest
In the news: Tech4bio
In September 29th edition of the financial newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore” there is a supplement dedicated to Biotechnology.
A prominent article describes the activities the Tech4Bio group, formed by a considerable number of CNR researchers, belonging to several institutes in the Rome area (ISC, ISM; IMM, IDASC, IFN), with different expertise but a common aim of promoting the formation of a scientific network in the fields of biophysics, biosensing and biotechnology.… Read the rest
European Conference for Complex Systems – Lucca 2014
European Conference for Complex Systems
Lucca, 22-26 September 2014
In the news: Anderson Localization
Con le future fibre ottiche bisturi laser più precisi
SuperFox
The 2th edition of the SuperFox conference (Workshop on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides) will be held in Rome, September 24-26, 2014.
http://www.phys.uniroma1.it/Superfox2014/… Read the rest
New ISC website
The new website is now online.
Comments and contributions may be sent to
webmaster@isc.cnr.it
The old website may be viewed at old.isc.cnr.it… Read the rest
Light and Complexity: nonlinear optics and photonics
see Light and Complexity: nonlinear optics and photonics… Read the rest
Congresso Nazionale SIF
100 th Congresso Nazionale SIF,
Pisa, 22-26 September 2014
Congresso Nazionale SIF… Read the rest
European Conference on Complex Systems
European Conference on Complex Systems ‘14,
Lucca, 22-26 September 2014
European Conference on Complex Systems… Read the rest
Italian Soft Days
Italian Soft Days, first edition
Rome, 17-18 September, 2014
see Italian Soft Days… Read the rest
European Research Council
- Deadline 01/10/2014
- Deadline 21/10/2014
- Open Call 2015 – 07/10/2014
Computational Neuroscience
Computational neuroscience is the study of brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures forming the nervous system. It is an interdisciplinary science that links the diverse fields of Neuroscience, Cognitive science and Psychology with Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering.
The physiology and dynamics of functional and biologically realistic neurons within neural systems are the principal focus of computational neuroscience.… Read the rest
Conferimento incarico di responsabile di UOS Tor Vergata
Conferimento incarico di responsabile di UOS e delle deleghe alla Gestione.
provvedimento mussi… Read the rest
Claudio Conti takes over as director
On July 1st 2014 Claudio Conti took over as director of the Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi after Prof. Luciano Pietronero’s final term.… Read the rest
HyperSpectral Imaging
The hyperspectral confocal reflection (HCR) microscope is an instrument that integrates of optical imaging and spectroscopic methodologies. It is designed for the reflectance spectral image as well as for the morphometric imaging of optical sections of vital tissue samples (in vivo, ex vivo, in vitro) [1,2,3]. Spectral data and images are acquired simultaneously, in an continuum range of wavelengths, from VIS to NIR, with a supercontinuum laser.… Read the rest
Radio 3 Scienza on “Rappresentanza o governabilità”, A. Petri interviewed
Alberto Petri interviewed on “Rappresentanza o governabilità”, RAI ”Radio 3 Scienza”, February 3rd, 2014
… Read the restSMART
New “smart” gels in soft matter
| Founding Body: | MIUR PRIN Progetti di ricerca di interesse nazionale |
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| Total grant: | € 83k |
| Principal Investigator: | Emanuela Zaccarelli |
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| Project duration: | 2014-2017 |
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