Announcements

SISSA invites all undergraduate and graduate students to attend the Summer School on Atomistic Simulation Techniques in Trieste. The school, organized by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS Simulation Centre, will be held from 14 to 30 June 2017. 
In 2017 the School will be entirely focused on quantum mechanics and in particular will be devoted to electronic properties of materials, chemical- and bio-molecules.
 

The SISSA Open Access Policy has been approved and here you can find the full text. The Open Access Policy has to be applied to the new institutional "SISSA Digital Library", the open access repository established for the purpose of accommodating the School’s scientific research products through the IRIS - "Institu

On Thursday 12 April 2017, at 2.30 pm the Mathlab group will hold a seminar on "The Geometry and Mechanics of Growing Elastic Sheets".

During the seminar, Prof Eran Sharon from the Racah Institute of Physics - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will present experimental methods for the construction of “programmed” responsive sheets, discussing different types of self-shaping principles. In particular, the talk will focus on the connection of the topic to shape selection in chemical and biological systems. 

The colloquium "Quantum technologies and quantum control" will be held at SISSA on 22 March 2017 at 4.30 pm. Professor Tommaso Calarco, who leads the Integrated Quantum Science and Technology centre at the Ulm and Stuttgart University in Germany, will talk about quantum technologies and their application in futuristic visions. 

A SISSA study recently published on Perception shows that even neutral olfactory stimuli affect the processes underlying moral decisions, favouring deontological moral choices. According to the first author Cinzia Cecchetto and her colleagues this effect occurs when a neutral odour is presented below detection threshold, when compared to the same odor perceived either as positive or negative and it is reflected at the level of autonomic responses.

SISSA wishes to express its solidarity to Mohamed Hassan, the first executive director of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in the developing world (TWAS) and now the interim director in the same institution. Prof.

 18-01-2017 Un nuovo studio sulle mappe ottenute dal satellite Fermi della NASA ha permesso di rivelare, per la prima volta in modo chiaro, l’emissione di raggi gamma associata agli ammassi di galassie. La ricerca ha visto la partecipazione della Sissa, accanto a INAF, INFN, Università di Roma Tre, Torino, Aachen, Manchester e Pechino. 

 10-01-2017 “Physico-mathematical methods for complex data”: this is the title of the symposium that will be held at SISSA on 13 January 2017. Riccardo Zecchina of the Politecnico di Torino will open the meeting with a talk on neural networks architectures. Antonietta Mira of the Università della Svizzera Italiana will discuss a methodology for statistical inference in complex models. The symposium will be closed by Yonatan Loewenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a talk on the computational modeling of operant learning.

Luca Venturi, che ha conseguito una laurea specialistica in matematica UNITS-SISSA (laurea triennale in matematica presso università degli studi di Pavia), il 21 dicembre 2016 riceverà, presso la sede di Confindustria Pavia, il premio di Laurea per la sua tesi di laurea magistrale discussa all’Università di Trieste il 14 luglio 2016 dal titolo “Weighted reduced order methods for parametrized PDEs in Uncertainty Quantification problems”.