Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos

Video: GISC member explains his famous Parrondo's paradox in this interview at SISSA (Trieste). Don't miss it!
https://t.co/eD2fHGmLfH
https://youtu.be/igp0K7TnWqw

Demons, Ratchets and Parrondo's Paradox It’s a strange, counterintuitive phenomenon: a system of two guaranteed losing games than can actually produce a winning result. And not by playing them with...

Si tienes menos de 30 años y estás en el programa de empleo juvenil y quieres trabajar un año investigando en redes sociales, hoy se ha convocado un contrato para incorporarse al grupo del miembro del GISC Anxo Sánchez en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Referencia 2019/053, plazo una semana.

Convocatorias de contratos de personal con cargo a proyectos

Some speakers are GISC members. Great plan if you are around!

Today we are celebrating our XVI GISC Workshop! You can find program and abstracts in the link.

XVI GISC Workshop

"The Goldstone mode and resonances in the fluid interfacial region" by Andrew Parry and Carlos Rascón. You can read the whole Nature Physics paper here in the link. Congratulations, Carlos!

The Goldstone mode and resonances in the fluid interfacial region Accurately capturing both microscopic and mesoscopic properties of fluid–gas interfaces is a long-standing challenge. Now, a microscopic theory of correlation functions that can be scaled up to explain mesoscopic surface tension phenomena is put forward.

GISC member Mario Castro interviewed on his recent work on epidemics expansion, and more concretely the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015 (Spanish).

https://www.telecinco.es/informativos/ciencia/existen-motivos-virus-extiende-mas-rapido-region-que-en-otra_0_2633925095.html

You can find the research paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01529/full

¿Los virus se extienden de forma diferente según la región? Entre los años 2014 y 2016 el virus del Ébola fue noticia en todo el mundo. La epidemia, que llegó a España, se originó en diciembre de 2013 en Guinea y se extendió a otros países como Liberia, Sierra Leona, Nigeria, Senegal, Estados Unidos, Malí y Reino Unido. Finalmente la OMS declaró&nbs...

"A window of opportunity for cooperativity in the T Cell Receptor", work by GISC member Mario Castro and colleagues in Nature Communications.

A window of opportunity for cooperativity in the T Cell Receptor T cells can be activated by a small, two-digit, number of antigen peptide molecules even though the receptor for antigen (TCR) is of low affinity. Here the authors present evidence that all TCRs within a nanocluster can become activated when only a subset is bound to antigen.

Next Friday, February 2nd, we will celebrate our XV Workshop. Check out all the information here!

https://sites.google.com/site/xvgiscworkshop/

GISC member José Cuesta with friend Javier Galeano publish yet another article in El País, this time about the bacteria living in our bodies.

Tribuna | El Serengueti de nuestro cuerpo Las bacterias son los seres vivos más abundantes del planeta, y solo en el fondo marino hay tantas bacterias como estrellas habría en cien millones de universos como el nuestro

GISC member Édgar Roldán, Early Career Prize of the Statistical And Nonlinear Physics Division of the European Physical Society. Congratulations!
http://www.eps.org/members/group.aspx?id=85204

European Physical Society (EPS)

Again a GISC member writes in El Pais, this time Jacobo Aguirre: La cooperación, el poder de los débiles.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/06/ciencia/1499334028_959259.html

Tribuna | La cooperación, el poder de los débiles ¿Qué nos impulsa a compartir el plato con quien nos rodea, incluso cuando el hambre aprieta?

GISC member Mario Castro writes in El País that maths are good for your health (in Spanish).

Tribuna | Las matemáticas son beneficiosas para la salud Los datos no hablan si no se les interroga, y la sala de interrogatorios es el modelo matemático