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The kick-off meeting of Spoke 9, which is led by SISSA with the participation of the University of Padua, the University of Trieste, and the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), will be held at SISSA on Friday 17 March from 9.30 a.m...

The Telethon Foundation has awarded a two-year grant to Antonello Mallamaci's research project on FOXG1 syndrome, a rare genetic disease that leads to complex neurological symptoms...
 

Luca Heltai, professor of Numerical Analysis at SISSA, is one of the Invited Plenary Speakers at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23) that will be held in Amsterdam from the 26th of February to the 3rd of March...

Enrollments are now open for the tenth edition of the specialization course “Master in High Performance Computing” (MHPC) co-organized by the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

MHPC is an innovative advanced training program with the aim of training a new class of professionals able to exploit and manage the powerful, complex and modern technologies underlying HPC.

The next SISSA Colloquium will be held February 23rd at 16:30 in room 128-129, with a special lecture by Bruno Mota (Instituto de Física - Universidade Federal do RIo de Janeiro) with the title " Universality, fractality and a new morphological syntax for the cerebral cortex "

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On 14 February at 6 p.m. at the Antico Caffè San Marco will be held the event "Il mare non è un luogo silenzioso" (The sea is not a silent place), organised by Area Science Park, ICTP, Rai FVG and SISSA. The meeting will be an opportunity to discover and learn about marine sounds...

An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one sixth the size of the present one. An object so dark that it is almost invisible, even to highly sophisticated instruments. Its nature has long been the subject of debate, but now a SISSA a study... 

The traditional Boltzmann Lecture for 2023 will be held on Wednesday, February 22nd, at 15:00 in room 128-129. The seminar will be held by Fabian Essler, Professorial Research Fellow at The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, with the title Eigenstate Thermalization and Conservation Laws.

A new study reports the first experimental creation of a quantum potential with energies given by sequences of prime numbers, paving the way for a new approach to the investigation of mathematical problems related to number theory using quantum physics...

FameLab is back in Trieste: the city will host the local selection of the international competition challenging young scientists with the talent of communication to tell in just 3 minutes the object of his or her study, or a scientific topic they are interested in...

Fatti per Capire is the new information project of the National Science and Technology Museum of Milan, conceived by journalist Barbara Gallavotti, designed to provide the media and the general public with the tools to make informed decisions about science and technology.

The first Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquium of 2023 will be held Monday, January 30 by Professor Michele Parrinello of IIT. The seminar titled "The Physics of Catalysis", will explore how state-of the-art simulations based on machine learning can give insights on how catalysis happens...

JoTTOFair is the meeting event where the research carried out at the six Italian Schools for Advanced Studies that take part in JoTTO meets the business world…

From 21st to 28th January the best of Central and Eastern European cinema comes back to town for the Trieste Film Festival. Accreditations are already on sale, and there is a special price for the SISSA community…


 

The list of those admitted to the prestigious funding was made public by the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research (ANVUR). The School thus marks an en plein, seeing both the Departments with which it competed recognised...

Started in November 2022, the four-year project was awarded the prestigious EIC Pathfinder Challenge Grant, funded by the European Innovation Council. CROSSBRAIN is coordinated by the University of Rome Tor Vergata, with the participation of SISSA Professor Michele Giugliano's team...

This hypothesis, the authors of a new study say, is in excellent agreement with observations made by the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope, which takes measurements of the “cosmic web”...

The annual Intra-Area Meeting in Physics will be held in SISSA December 16th. The aim is to bring together the several physics group active at SISSA for a day of confrontation, exchange of ideas and know-how, results and scientific vision...
 

The inauguration ceremony of Leonardo, the supercomputer ranked fourth in the Top500 list of the fastest computers in the world, was held today, 24 November, at the Bologna Technopole, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella...

Two more European Research Council (ERC) grants for SISSA. The projects of researchers Laura Donnay and Katja Reinhard, worth a total of almost two and a half million euros, will start in the coming weeks and will last five years...