Spiky reviewed on CNR’s Science Almanac
An article in CNR’s almanac presents Spiky a product developed at ISC’s Computational Neuroscience Lab in Sesto Fiorentino. … Read the rest
Archive for month: June, 2015
Valentina Mussi interviewed by Frascati Scienza
EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS’ NIGHT 2015
ISC researcher Valentina Mussi interviewed by Frascati Scienza in preparation for the European Researchers’ Night 2015.… Read the rest
ISC in Talk Scienza on CNR WebTV
ISC Talk Scienza
Scienza della complessità: una mappa per il labirinto… Read the rest
GROWTHCOM Project Summer School
Lipari (September 6-12, 2015)
GROWTHCOM Project Summer School: Socio-Economic Complex Systems
Target audience: PhD students, postdocs, young and senior researchers interested in Socio-Economic Complex Systems.
The deadline for application is July 20, 2015. The official language is English.
The school is organized within the Project Growthcom “Growth and Innovation Policy-Modelling: Applying next Generation Tools, Data and Economic Complexity Ideas” financed by the European Commission within the FP7 Framework Programme.… Read the rest
Key Enabling Tecnologies at CNR: brochures by DSCTM
Two brochures on Key Enabling Tecnologies at CNR with contributors from ISC
have been published by the Dipartimento Scienze Chimiche e Tecnologie dei Materiali.
- Advanced Materials
- Photonics
Replica Symmetry Breaking
Experimental evidence of replica symmetry breaking in random lasers
Spin-glass theory is one of the leading paradigms of complex physics and describes condensed matter, neural networks and biological systems, ultracold atoms, random photonics and many other research fields.
According to this theory, identical systems under identical conditions may reach different states. This effect is known as replica symmetry breaking and is revealed by the shape of the probability distribution function of an order parameter named the Parisi overlap.… Read the rest
Dynamic Coarsening
Crystal surfaces led out of equilibrium by a growth or erosion process may undergo morphological instabilities and develop distinct structures: ondulations, mounds or pyramids, bunches of steps, ripples.
Emergent pattern may increase in size with time by means of a coarsening process which may continue forever or stop at some relevant length scale.
Paolo Politi’s group has studied the dynamics for three different types of instabilities, stressing the main physical ingredients: kinetic, energetic and athermal instabilities.… Read the rest
Silent Flocks
A paper on the collective behaviour of bird flocks, in which a spin wave model is brought to the continuous limit as in fluid elements of a large hydrodynamic system, has been published in Physical Review Letters and it has been the subject of a synopsis in the APS magazine Physics.
Both spin and density waves can propagate throughout flocks, but in some cases their contributions are quickly damped.… Read the rest