Moving around in the half-light is difficult but not impossible. To help us in this undertaking we have the rods, a type of light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors) present in the retina of vertebrates ...
Pursuing the safety policy for the management of Phase 3 and continuing in managing safety issues but also those related to work/life balance, it is necessary to provide the entire SISSA community with indications for possible cases related to health situations also connected to family life.
As you know, due to a worsening of the national health situation, new measures have been implemented by the Italian government; these measures have only a minor impact on our activity (with the exception of the ban on meetings in presence.
The MIT-FVG Project, financed with FVG Region funding, promoting scientific collaborations between MIT faculty and scientists and their counterparts at SISSA, at the University of Udine and at the University of Trieste, has opened its 2020-2021 MISTI's Global Seed Funds call for proposals.
The maximum funding per proposal is $ 23.000 and the call deadline is December 14th 2020. Funding may be used to cover travel and meeting costs to facilitate international projects and collaboration. Funds may not be used to cover salaries or materials.
A modification imperceptible to the human eye can deceive sophisticated artificial intelligences. A team of researchers from the University of Trieste, SISSA and Oxford University, has shown a new way to make these neural networks more robust and difficult to deceive...
From Google to Facebook, from Airbnb to Amazon, the web really envelops our life. How to avoid getting entangled in it without however demonizing its use? How to learn to use technology intelligently? ...
Following the kick-off meeting of the initiative, held at SISSA last January, the path towards one of the most powerful supercomputers continues on ...
Dear all, in the coming weeks and months, the probable increase in infections will further put to the test the strategies adopted to protect the health of our community. We would like to inform you that we have officially appointed...
On Monday 12 October at 11.15 am Piero Angela will be awarded the Master honoris causa from SISSA Master’s Course in Science Communicatio "Franco Prattico" (MCS) ...
As part of the anti-contagion measures, the Italian Government has just extended the use of the masks also outdoors when close to other people who are not cohabitants...
The School is starting again part of its activities and a number of procedures have been put in place to guarantee everybody's safety. They are summarised below through some Frequently Asked Questions.
October 2020 marks the launch of the European partnership project entitled: TREX - “Targeting Real Chemical accuracy at the Exascale" European Centre of Excellence in materials modelling and design by stochastic simulation methods ...
Dear all, it is with great satisfaction that we announce the restart of teaching activities at SISSA starting from Monday 5 October. All the classrooms have been equipped to ensure maximum safety for teachers and students...
For the next SISSA-ICTP Colloquia we are proud to host John Michael Kosterlitz, British-born American physicist who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in using topology to explain superconductivity in two-dimensional materials. His talk, a "Random walk through Physics"
Re-establishing motor skills and neuronal connectivity thanks to the implantation of carbon nanotubes in the injury site. This is the result of a new study conducted by SISSA and the University of Trieste that rewards a ten years interdisciplinary collaboration...
It is called RACHAEL, after the "replicant" protagonist of Blade Runner, the innovative project that combines traditional market research with artificial intelligence and Big Data. A unique start-up in Italy which, thanks to the application of interpretative and predictive models...
The international prize “Prof. Luigi Tartufari ", among the most prestigious awards of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei has been won by Pasquale Calabrese, professor of statistical physics at SISSA ...
"L'Alfabeto della Scienza", the new book by Professor Giuseppe Mussardo, theoretical physicist of SISSA, will be showcased in an event at Caffé San Marco in Trieste Friday, September 25 starting at 18:30.
The opinion of the Commission of Experts for the Evaluation of Schools of Higher Education was extremely positive: in the note it is concluded that "SISSA is an international doctoral school of the highest quality, combining excellence in research in physics, mathematics and neurobiology with the didactic quality of the best doctoral schools of the Anglo-Saxon system".
SISSA expresses its grief for the death of Nicolò D'Amico, President of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) and Full Professor of Astrophysics at the Physics Department of the University of Cagliari. Nicolò D'Amico has been a reference point ...
