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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Jean Decety

September 20, 2012

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall

Empathy is what makes us human: it is the ability to reflect ourselves in other people's emotions and what creates that fundamental cohesion at the basis of our society. The ability to be empathic originates in our brain, in ancient and basic structures making up the material of which even very complex forms of empathy are made.

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Philippe Nozières

Wednesday June 13, 2012

11.00 a.m.

SISSA - Aula Magna

"Sixty years of condensed matter physics: a changing world, as fascinating as ever in a worrying social context" 
Philippe Nozières.

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