CREF researchers at CCS 2024

The annual Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) is the flagship meeting for the complex systems research community within the Complex Systems Society. This year, CCS will be held in Exeter (UK) from 2 to 6 September, jointly organised by Northeastern University London and the University of Exeter. Researchers from the Fitness and Economic Complexity Group […]

New materials for photonic computers

From combinatorial optimization algorithms to artificial neural networks (NN), modern digital computers have undergone incredible development in recent decades. Yet, they struggle to keep up with the growing trend of high-density applications. Artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning, requires the ability to process increasingly large and complex quantities of data. One of the biggest obstacles […]

The EEE Extreme Events project participates at the Roman conference of the transglobal car expedition

This morning, a six-wheel-drive off-road vehicle crossed the gates of the Viminale to stop in front of the building via Panisperna. It was one of the cars used for the Transglobal Car Expedition, a project combining a passion for adventure with scientific research. Starting in January from New York, the expedition aims to circumnavigate the […]

Unveiling Artistic Techniques in Early Italian Photography Through Spectroscopy and Machine Learning

Title: Spectroscopic Benchmarks by Machine Learning as Discriminant Analysis for Unconventional Italian Pictorialism Photography Authors: Claudia Scatigno (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi), Lorenzo Teodonio (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi), Eugenia Di Rocco (Freelance Restorer – Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia, Spilimbergo), Giulia Festa (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi) Published on Polymers 2024, 16(13), 1850; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16131850 Abstract […]

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy could be a powerful technique in the development of neutron dosimetry

A team of Italian researchers – R.C. Ponterio and S. Trusso (CNR-IPCF), G. Festa and C. Scatigno (Enrico Fermi Research Center), G. Romanelli (University of Tor Vergata), A. Piperno (University of Messina). – has tested a miniaturized device grown by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with VESUVIO, a technique that could be an important tool for nuclear […]

Neutron sensing at spallation neutron sources by SERS

Title: Neutron sensing at spallation neutron sources by SERS Authors: Sebastiano Trusso (Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, CNR, Messina), Giulia Festa (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma, Italy), Claudia Scatigno (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Roma), Giovanni Romanelli (Dipartimento di Fisica & NAST Centre, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), Anna Piperno (Department of Chemical, Biological, […]

Food Pairing Unveiled: Exploring Recipe Creation Dynamics through Recommender Systems

Title: Food Pairing Unveiled: Exploring Recipe Creation Dynamics through Recommender Systems Authors: Giovanni Palermo (Physics Department, University ”Sapienza”, Enrico Fermi Research Centre – Roma), Claudio Caprioli (Department of Physics and Astronomy ”Ettore Majorana”- Catania), Giambattista Albora (Enrico Fermi Research Centre – Roma) Published in: Archive Physics June 21 2024 Link: arXiv:2406.15533 Abstract: In the early […]

Economic complexity and the sustainability transition: a review of data, methods, and literature

Title: Economic complexity and the sustainability transition: a review of data, methods, and literature Authors: Bernardo Caldarola (UNU-MERIT and University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands), Dario Mazzilli (CREF) , Lorenzo Napolitano (European Commission Joint Research Centre – JRC Seville), Aurelio Patelli(CREF)  and Angelica Sbardella(CREF)  Published on Jphys Complexity DOI 10.1088/2632-072X/ad4f3d   Abstract Economic Complexity (EC) […]

Lipari School 2024: Complex Systems from economics to biology and brain

The 2024 edition of the Lipari Summer School on Complex Systems will take place from July 1st to July 7th. Organised by, among others, our Scientific Director Andrea Gabrielli and Tiziana di Matteo, a member of the CREF CDA’s board of directors, it will bring together experts in complex systems from all over the world. […]

Large-scale photonic computing with nonlinear disordered media

Title: Large-scale photonic computing with nonlinear disordered media Authors: Hao Wang, Jianqi Hu, Andrea Morandi, Alfonso Nardi, Fei Xia, Xuanchen Li, Romolo Savo, Qiang Liu, Rachel Grange & Sylvain Gigan published in Nature Computational Science (2024) Cite this article Abstract Neural networks find widespread use in scientific and technological applications, yet their implementations in conventional computers have encountered bottlenecks due to ever-expanding computational needs. Photonic computing is […]