«It is a great honour for me to receive this award. I see it as an acknowledgement for my research, but also for SISSA, the institute where I have worked for many years and which has given me the opportunity to carry out my studies in the best possible way...
The celebrations to mark SISSA’s 40th Anniversary continue with a new edition of SISSA Summer Festival. From 21 June to 5 July, every week, the open-air amphitheatre of the School will entertain with concerts and plays dedicated to the relationship between art and science...
A work led by SISSA and published on Nature Nanotechnology reports for the first time experimentally the phenomenon of ion ‘trapping’ by graphene carpets and its effect on the communication between neurons...
Guido De Philippis has won the Gold medal “Guido Stampacchia”. The prize awards under 35 scientists who have carried out significant research in the field of Variational Analysis and Applications. The Prize is announced every three years by “International School of Mathematics “Guido Stampacchia”, part of the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for ScientiIic Culture, and the Mathematics Italian Union (Unione Matematica Italiana).
A laser pulse that for a few picoseconds – i.e. one millionth of one millionth of a second- transforms a material into a high-temperature superconductor...
“Thanks to science in the kitchen we can become fantastic hackers", says Davide Cassi, Professor of Physics of Matter at the University of Parma, where he has founded and manages the Gastronomic Physics Laboratory. Cassi will hold a conference during SISSA in FESTA, the appointment...
The great adventure which led SISSA to become a prestigious international scientific institution began on 6 March 1978 by Presidential Decree. The numerous awards which it continues to win bear witness to its excellence and to the quality of its research...
On its 40th Anniversary SISSA publishes the Manifesto on the Role of Women Networks in Research signed by internationally acclaimed female researchers and delegates of several women networks in science...
Brain blood flow is regulated to ensure adequate power for neuronal computation. It is controlled at the arteriole level by smooth muscle, but there is controversy over whether it is also regulated by pericytes at the capillary level. On Thursday 7 June, David Attwel of UCL will...
The Ministry for Economic Development - MISE finances with more than 7.5 million euro the project of Triveneto Universities – including SISSA – aimed at setting up the SMACT Competence Centre focused on digital technologies – Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, IoT – and on business...
A new approach to measure quantum entanglement in multiparticle systems. This is the key outcome of a study conducted by SISSA, ICTP and IQOQI-Innsbruck recently published in Nature Physics...
SISSA scientists played an important part in winning the Gruber Cosmology Prize 2018, the prestigious award recently assigned to the Planck experiment...
Just like in the most sophisticated forms of musical counterpoint, the plot of "Divorare il cielo" unfolds among different voices within a unifying theme: the conflict between desire and self protection. The latest book by Paolo Giordano – teacher of creative writing at SISSA...
In line with the human and social values that have characterized SISSA from the very beginning, the School organizes a charity dinner for the SISSA people on Friday 25 May. The dinner is part of the celebrations of SISSA 40th Anniversary.
The second edition of MARS42 - Research Beyond Academia is ongoing at SISSA. MARS42 is an Innovation School for Scientific Changemakers that provides Master of Science students, PhD students and Post-Docs with a guidance for reading research...
A study by SISSA shows that, differently from younger individuals, centenarians recognise natural foods more accurately than processed foods, because they have eaten them with greater frequency during their lifetime...
From subatomic particles to supermassive stars, from fractals to the simmetries of the Universe. Sperical cows, dark matter, graphene, air quality and climate change. This, and much more, is Pint of Science Trieste 2018...
On Tuesday 8 May, Naftali Tishby will present a novel comprehensive theory of large scale learning with Deep Neural Networks, based on the correspondence between Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck framework...
An international platform to strengthen the role of women in science. This is the initiative promoted on 9 May as part of the celebrations for the School’s 40th Anniversary. Proceedings will be opened by Marica Branchesi...
Thanks to the programme for collaborations of excellence, Luca Peliti, formerly professor of statistical mechanics at the University Federico II in Naples, has recently joined SISSA. From 20 April he will be teaching the course “Stochastic thermodynamics and thermodynamics of...
