Supercomputers, cryptography, precision sensors are on the research horizon for a new international centre of excellence that will be inaugurated on Monday 25 March in Trieste. The Institute aims at becoming an international reference point for training and research...
It is known that there are important similarities between the visual system of primates and the artificial neural networks of the latest generation. Now we know how that these similarities exist also with the visual system of rats ...
How does the brain work? What happens in pathological conditions like aphasia, depression or dementia? These are just some of the questions that researchers will try to answer during the Brain Awareness Week...
Our brain comprises 85 billion nerve cells and just as many so-called glial cells, which work in close contact with the former to guarantee their proper function. All originate from brain stem cells. But what decides when and how many of them become neurons or glial cells?...
The campaign asks everyone to save energy by switching off as many non-essential electrical devices as possible. Fully embracing the philosophy of the initiative, these days SISSA has been carrying out...
The prize is awarded to an early career scientist who has made outstanding research contributions to an area of statistical physics nonlinear physics, complex systems, or complex networks, as evidenced by a top quality and highly cited paper...
Promises of food, sums of money or entertaining pastimes: it does not matter what the temptation is, a new study shows that patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease who are treated with Deep Brain Stimulation...
A team of researchers from SISSA and OGS in Trieste, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, and UPC in Barcelona show that a specific body deformation called metaboly allows Euglena to crawl remarkably fast in narrow spaces. This feature could be a source of inspiration...
How do we perceive time? Why do plants take on specific shapes? What is machine learning? These are just some of the questions that SISSA researchers will answer on Wednesday 20 February during the Student Day. The Institute will open the doors to hundreds of students...
“HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future” is the event promoted by SISSA and ICTP's Master in High Performance Computing, which will take place at SISSA on Friday 15 February 2019, from 2 pm
On Wednesday 20 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by physicist Paul Fendley entitled “Between Order and Disorder”. The event will take place in room 128-129 at 2.30 pm...
SISSA is proud to support the presence of Italian and foreign scientists of renown scientific and cultural level as well as refugee scientists as visiting professors. Through the programme for collaborations of excellence...
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019 and to join forces to build an inclusive scientific community, ICTP, OWSD and SISSA, in collaboration with Soroptimist Trieste, are organizing an event scheduled on 8 February 2019...
Since the set up of the European Research Council in 2007, SISSA has secured 21 ERC grants, thus ranking among the top host institutions in Italy, especially with respect to the small faculty size...
The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, in collaboration with SISSA, Trieste and Udine universities, promotes the scientific system and the support for vocational education and training through the organisation of an event aimed at presenting the projects funded...
On Wednesday 16 January a talk by Itamar Procaccia of the Weizmann Institute of Science on the physical origin of mechanical failure of amorphous media closes the series of 2018 SISSA Colloquia...
Are you a scientist, a researcher, a student? Are you good at communicating? The Trieste edition of FameLab 2019 is what you are looking for! FameLab is the international competition challenging young scientists with a talent for communication to tell in 3 minutes...
On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary, the School is pleased to announce the foundation of the SISSA Alumni Society. It is open to all former SISSA students who have completed a PhD course, obtained a MPhil degree, or attended a Master’s degree...
On World Human Rights Day, major Italian experts in the field will gather in Gorizia to discuss “The value of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in International Law”...
The event, which will take place at the foyer of SISSA Aula Magna Paolo Budinich from 6 pm, will present the work of playwrights Marco Di Stefano and Chiara Boscaro. Actresses Ariella Reggio and Marcela Serli, together with theatre expert Roberto Canziani, will take part in the event...
