GISC in the Media

01-01-2000: Juanma Parrondo's games attract wide media coverage. Read more here.

07-02-2008: Jose Cuesta and Anxo Sánchez talk about the emergence of cooperation (Spanish)

26-05-2008: Esteban Moro's article Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market receives coverage in Actibva (in Spanish)

04-04-2009:  Article on Deutschlandfunk about Esteban Moro' work on gossiping in social networks and how information spreads (in German).

17-07-2009: Esteban Moro talks about information diffusion in social networks (Spanish)

12-08-2009: Esteban Moro's work on viral phenomena gets wide media coverage:

• On New Scientist: published: 'Infectious' people spread memes across the web.
• On ABC news: Why are persistent hoaxes possible?
• On Phys.org: New model for social marketing campaings details how information goes viral
• On El País: Information spreads deceptively slow in social networks (in Spanish).
• On ABC (Spanish paper): Lazy people make information spread slower (in Spanish).

16-02-2011: Anxo Sánchez and Jose Cuesta talk about why total cooperation is impossible (text and video in Spanish)

26-04-2011:Interview with Esteban Moro about information diffusion in social networks (Spanish)

20-06-2011: Esteban Moro and Giovanna Miritello published a paper about the diffusion of information in social networks, and it got some media coverage:

• Radio program on the Spanish National Radio (RTVE) about the work. (Spanish)
•  Interview and article about the results, in UC3M news portal (video in Spanish)
• Article on Spanish National Radio (RTVE) (Spanish)

12-07-2011: Daniele Vilone and Anxo Sánchez's work studying chaos in the evolutionary dynamics of populations and using discrete models, has been reviewed in the italian edition of Scientic American. See the text here.

20-12-2011: Jelena Grujic, Jose Cuesta and Anxo Sánchez from GISC, along with researchers of BIFI in Zaragoza have carried out the largest experiment ever on games on networks, with over 1200 volunteers playing a prisoner's dilemma simultaneously.

• Three videos about the experiment, which were broadcasted on TV, can be found in Youtube and on the Aragon TV website, (video 1, starting at 27'30'', and video 2, starting at 26'28'')
• Many newspapers and digital media websites have informed about the experiment: ABC, El Heraldo de Aragón, 20 minutos, adn.es, Aragón digital, Qué, El Periódico de Aragón, El Economist, Agencia SINC, Madr+d, Aragón Universidad, Tendencias 21...
• For more detailed information about the event, see Europa Press.
• The experiment, as well as an outlook of future prospects, has been reviewed at Diario Médico

12-03-2012: The economists fail when they say humans are rational: Anxo Sánchez was interviewed by Diario de Mallorca about his work on cooperation (Spanish)

22-04-2012:Evolution and co-evolution: Anxo Sánchez interviewed by SINC (Spanish).

22-11-2012: Esteban Moro participated in EmTech, the spanish MIT Technology Review conference, with a discussion on the flow of information through social network.  His Seminar was highlighted in the MIT Technology Review itself and in the spanish magazine Muy Interesante (Spanish).

02-01-2013: Esteban Moro was recently interviewed at the MIT Technology Review. He held a lucid discussion on the impact of Social Networks on the communication patterns among human (Spanish)

30-10-2013: Esteban Moro was interviewed by Spanish TV channel Antena 3 on the factors that influence viral campaigns on the Internet. Watch him talk about it here (Spanish)

01-11-2013: Anxo Sánchez's article "Towards a Proper Assignment of Systemic Risk: The Combined Roles of Network Topology and Shock Characteristics" has received considerable media attention:

• Press release by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with video included (Spanish with English subtitles).
• News article on publico.es. (Spanish)
• Anxo Sánchez is interviewed in the Science, Health and Technology section of NTN's news program. (Spanish)
• The previous interview is extended with Luis Quevedo. (Spanish)
• Another interview on the radio program "La última seducción", on Onda Vasca. (Spanish)

19-02-2014: Anxo Sánchez has been interviewed about some results on the emergence of cooperation:

• Article with interview excerpts on news website SINC (Spanish).
• Radio interview on RTVE (Spanish).

10-04-2014: Esteban Moro's paper "Using Friends as Sensors to Detect Global-Scale Contagious Outbreaks" gets wide media coverage:

• On The Chronicle of Higher Education: The science of going viral.
• On Phys.org: How 'social contagion' begins and escalates.
• On Science Daily: System detects global trends in social networks two months in advance.
• On Huffington Post: Tus tuis predicen el futuro (Spanish)
• On Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's press release: video included (Spanish with English subtitles).
• Besides, the article was reviewed in Technology Review MIT.

15-07-2014: Anxo Sánchez published a paper in Nature Communications on cooperation between teenagers. This work was echoed in the news and he was interviewd about it:

• Interview for NTN24 (Spanish).
• Interview for Eferves Ciencia (Galician).
• Interview for RTVE with BIFI's Yamir Moreno (Spanish).

26-10-2014: Esteban Moro and Anxo Sánchez appeared on TVE's tres14 (a popular science program). You can watch the video here. (Spanish) (click here if you can't see the video in the other link)

21-01-2015: Anxo Sánchez participated in a web discussion about Complexity with Luis Quevedo and Josep Perelló. Watch the video here! (Spanish)

03-02-2015: Juanma Parrondo was interviewed for the Spanish newspaper La Nueva España! You can read the whole interview here. (Spanish).

03-02-2015: Juanma Parrondo and Esteban Moro appeared on TEDx Barrio La Latina, in Madrid. They talked about Big Data and Quantum Cryptography. Click here to read the details.

10-02-2015: Juanma Parrondo and Esteban Moro appeared on "Para Todos La 2", a program in the Spanish National Television. Click here to watch the video! (Spanish)

03-03-2015: Anxo Sánchez was interviewed on Extremadura Radio about the latest post in his blog "Aquí hay dragones" at Investigación y Ciencia. Click here to listen to it! (Spanish).

13-04-2015: Members of GISC integrated in ComplejiMad will start collaborating with Rivas City council to promote research in complex systems, among many other things. Read all about it here! (Spanish)

Members of our group and collaborators found out that neural differentiation was controlled by the presence of a protein in the cells close to the neurogenic wavefront. This has had an important impact on the media:

• The front page of CSIC highlights this news (6th of June, 2012), the news can be found here (in Spanish)
• The website of CNB (National Center of Biotechnology) provides also an extended report on the discovery.
• The discovery has also been highlighted in multiple general media: La Información, Europapress, Madri+d, informativostelecinco.com, Asturias Mundial, Diario de Salamanca, Crónica de Cantabria, Noticias Yahoo!, psiquiatria.com, dicyt.com, Actualidad Universitaria...

 A mathematical model to recreate the behavior of ecosystems has been developed by members of our group, which has attracted a lot of attention in national and international media

• Species are to ecosystems as cells are to the human body (in English and Spanish, attached video in the spanish version). Other links: Madri+D, BBC, Público, CORDIS (site for investigation and development, European Union), Ideal, Libertad Digital, EFE Verde, La Voz de Asturias, El Comercio, El Norte de Castilla, Noticiero Diario (Argentina), Noticias TNO (Venezuela), Science Daily.

We also study thin liquid films or drops of liquid, you can find more information in the following links.

• Physicists saved for drowning in complexities of wetting theory
• A link to europhysicsnews

The study of the Brazil-nut effect has attracted the attention of the media

• Simplifying a Nutty Problem
• EurekAlert

The properties of graphene and graphene-based materials are studied by GISC members

• Metal to insulator transition in graphene.

On March 2014, Mario Castro and Rodolfo Cuerno's published a paper on nanofoams that received a lot of attention from the media! Read some of them here:

• Press release by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with video included (Spanish with English subtitles).
• Press release by CSIC (Spanish).

The obtention of an equation that accurately describes how intricate cauliflower-like patterns evolve over time has been reviewed:

• In the October'12 issue Physics World, a leading broad-scope physics magazine.
• In the RSEF (Real Sociedad Española de Física) website