Sergio Doplicher

March 20th at 2.30 pm 

SISSA, Main Lecture Hall

Quantum mechanics has shown to man the limits of rational thought and in the same way as other great scientific revolutions has changed his role within Nature. A theme that has been addressed on March 20th by Sergio Doplicher in a public conference held at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste.

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Frans Pretorius

February 27th, 2:30 p.m.

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall 

The equations of General Relativity have been solved only in very simple cases. Frans Pretorius of Princeton University held at SISSA a public conference to illustrate the innovative method he has employed to obtain solutions of Einstein's General Relativity in realistic problems for modern astrophysics like, for instance, the collision of black holes.

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Frank Close

Wednesday 12th December, 11.30 a.m.

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall

The English scientist explained to the public the long path made up of sacrifice, disappointment and discoveries in search for the Higgs boson, from the beginning until now.

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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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