Verità per Giulio Regeni
Giulio Regeni was a scientist like us. We hope his cruel death may serve to focus our attention on the need to respect human rights.
Announcements
TECH UP 2018
Tech Up is a project by Fondazione R&I aimed at collecting the best proposals to address the growing technological needs of big companies. The initiative will be presented on 22 November 2018, starting from 11.30 am at the Contamination Lab...
Fiera del Lavoro FVG - Convegno ALIg 2018
SISSA is one of the institutional supporters of the Fiera del Lavoro FVG that will take place on 24 November 2018 at 12.30 pm at the Teatro Giovanni da Udine, in Udine. The event involves 70 different companies offering more than 400 positions...
PHD4PMI Grant Opportunity
PHD4PMI is a pilot initiative financed and planned by SISSA Strategic Plan 2016-2020 to further enhance the training (soft skills), the Talent Valorization (in public as well as in the private research field) and the Innovation...
JOBFair
JOBFair aims at starting a direct interaction between the leading Italian and international companies and the world of academic excellence, where Students and PostDocs will have the opportunity to have one-to-one meetings with the companies. It is organized by SISSA, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Scuola IMT Alti Studi di Lucca and GSSI Gran Sasso Science Institute.
Registration here.
FINCANTIERI Project - Call for admission
In the framework of the agreement signed with Fincantieri SpA, SISSA announces a selection for the conferment of a fellowship to follow a PhD course. The title of the project is “Parametric structural design of cruise ships with the application of reduced order methods for computational efficiency”.
The investigation will focus on improving the tools calculating the optimal dimensions of the internal parts of cruise ships manufactured by the company.
Call for MIT-FVG projects
The MIT-FVG Project, supporting collaborations between MIT faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts at SISSA, as well as at the University of Udine and at the University of Trieste is open for its second call.
It was launched in summer 2017 for the first time with funding provided by the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, now recently renewed (July 13, 2018).
The maximum award is $25,000.
Grant for female STEM students. Deadline 10 September 2018
The Soroptimist Club of Trieste offers a grant of 6000 euros to a female student wishing to follow a STEM course at University of Trieste in the 2018- 2019 Academic Year.
More information and the competition notice at this link.
Deadline for applications: 10 September 2018
ELECTROLUX PROJECT - Call for admission
The Research Hub by Electrolux Professional offers a 3-year scholarship at SISSA for a doctoral student placement in Electrolux Professional’s Global R&D. The research will be carried out in the frame of the project “Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Performance Enhancement of Professional Food Service Appliances”. The investigation will focus on mathematical modeling, numerical methods and scientific computing as data analysis tools for the development of the next generation Company’s products.
SIAM SISSA Colloquia 2018
On Thursday 5 July 5 2018, the SIAM SISSA Colloquia 2018 will take place at SISSA room 128, starting from 5 pm.
The scheduled speakers are Professor Jacopo Stoppa with a talk entitled "Recent advances in complex differential geometry" and Prof. Nicola Gigli who will discuss "Spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below: state of the art and future challanges".
More information and detailed programme here.
The valorisation of public research in Italy: numbers, examples, proposals
Andrea Piccaluga, Professor of Management Innovation and Director of the Institute of Management at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, will give a seminar entitiled "The valorisation of public research in Italy: numbers, examples, proposals” on 30 May 2018. Prof. Piccaluga is also the President of Netval, the Italian Network of University Technology Transfer Offices.
Introducing Campus party 2018!
The presentation of Campus Party will take place at SISSA in Room 004 on 31 May from 2 to 3 pm. SISSA is an official partner of Campus Party initiative. Thanks to this partnership, all SISSA students and research contract holders will have the chance to participate for free in the second edition of the world's largest international event on innovation and creativity, on 18-22 July in Milan.
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration
On Thursday 15 March, world-class researchers in neurodegenerative diseases will share and discuss the latest results on the role of different protein such as Abeta, alpha-synuclein, tau and prion protein in neurodegenerative diseases.
RNA-based drugs to help against Dravet Syndrome. New funding for Prof. Mallamaci’s lab
“We are using an experimental approach based on a set of RNA drugs we recently developed in our lab. The aim of this new project is to cast light on specific aspects of this method which still need to be clarified, along a pathway which – in the future – might turn this approach into a cure for patients suffering from Dravet Syndrome”.
First MIT-FVG Seed Funds assigned
Four SISSA projects have been recently awarded MIT-FVG Seed Funds. They will support collaborations and exchanges between faculty, research scientists and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT and their counterparts at SISSA for the next 20 months.
SISSA is one of the SOPHYA partners
SOPHYA (Seakeeping Of Planing Hull YAchts) is a research and development project in Maritime Technologies, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
La Fiera del Lavoro FVG - Convegno ALIg 2017
The job fair "La Fiera del Lavoro FVG - Convegno ALIg 2017" will take place on 25 November 2017 at 12.30 PM (midday) at the Teatro Nuovo Giovanni (via Trento, 4) in Udine.
The event is an opportunity to meet 66 companies. More than 300 positions are available.
Third edition of the School in Neuroethics
From 4 to 6 December 2017, a new edition of the School in Neuroethics will take place at SISSA. The training course will be dedicated to “irresistible desires”, with a focus on addiction cravings. During the three-day school, the biological, cognitive and epistemological aspects of this topic will be investigated.
WIOS2017 at SISSA
The first WIOS2017 will take place Thursday 5 October 5 and Friday 6 October at SISSA. WIOS (Women in olfactory science) is the first international forum to unite women scientists in olfactory science. The forum objective is to strength women role in the development and promotion of their representation among the leaders in the field of the chemical senses. More information here.
Former SISSA student awarded by the Italian Astronomical Society
Claudia Mancuso, former SISSA PhD student in Astrophysics now at the Istituto di Radioastronomia of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Bologna, is one of the two winners of the XII edition of the “P. Tacchini” Prize for the best 2016 PhD thesis in Astronomy/Astrophysics.
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