La Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università italiane (CRUI) e i tre rettori delle università del Friuli Venezia Giulia hanno lanciato un appello ai candidati premier chiedendo un impegno pubblico per salvare il sistema universitario italiano.

A questo appello si è unito il Direttore della SISSA, la Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste, che ha voluto precisare alcuni aspetti fondamentali. "Non esiste sviluppo in un paese avanzato senza istruzione di terzo livello, e questa può essere fornita essenzialmente solo dalle università", precisa Martinelli. "In Europa il sistema universitario è sostanzialmente quello pubblico, nel nostro paese è urgente cambiare completamente rotta, fermando il de-finanziamento e il blocco del turn over degli ultimi anni".

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The call for the Master in Complex Actions (MCA) of SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, is now open. The course, which aims at integrating scientific thought with the practices of public and private organizations, has now reached its third edition and will feature this year two important new elements: the focus will be on Energy and the destination of the study trip will be Saudi Arabia.

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June 17-21, 2013 - SISSA

Hilbert schemes of points are a traditional field of interest for algebraic geometers. Work by Nakajima and others established a relation between their geometry and the representation theory of Heisenberg-Clifford algebras.

More recent research connected Hilbert schemes with other infinite-dimensional algebras, such as Cherednik algebras, quantum Heisenberg algebras, Kac-Moody algebras, and so on. This conference aimed at providing an updated survey of the state of the art in this area of research in its various aspects.

June 17-21, 2013

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A few years ago it was found that certain proteins, the prions, when defective are dangerous, as they are involved in neurodegenerative syndromes such as the Creutzfeldt-Jakob and the Alzheimer diseases. But now research is showing their good side, too: when performing well, prions may be crucial in the development of the brain during childhood, as observed by a study carried out by a team of neuroscientists at SISSA which appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience.

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