Maria Chiara Carrozza

October 10, 2012

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall

The latest Paralympic Games have brought it to the spotlight: today technological prostheses, used to replace missing limbs, harmoniously integrate with the human body and promote a new conception of beauty. They are increasingly functional, sometimes even more than "normal" limbs. New frontiers of science on prosthetic device was the topic of the lecture held by Maria Chiara Carrozza (Director of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) on Wednesday 10th October, at SISSA in Trieste.

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October 9, 2012 

Until now it has been a mystery to scientists: how does it work? What is the need of the movement of euglenids, small organisms swimming in any pond? Nobody has ever described it in detail and nobody has ever understood its dynamics. But today, through a mathematical model, scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya have suggested a plausible description of this movement, made by the sliding of the membrane around the outer surface of euglenids.

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September 27, 2012

What do movements have to do with our understanding of language? Some scientists say that the way we understand words describing actions (walking, jumping, dancing...) could be connected to the motor activity of the brain related to movements. Two studies, one published soon after the other in Cortex and in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, have involved some SISSA scientists in Trieste and have explored this hypothesis from different points of view.

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September 28-30, 2012

The first edition of Trieste Next, European Innovation and Scientific Research Forum, was held in Trieste from 28th to 30th September 2012. The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) participated as co-promoter and organised eight events for scientific dissemination.

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