Nominations for the Boris Dubrovin medal are open
17 February 2020
The Boris Dubrovin medal, in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, The Boris Dubrovin medal, in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, is acceping nominations for candidates...
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In memoriam of Jacques Mehler
13 February 2020
SISSA Cognitive Neuroscience professor Jacques Mehler passed away in Paris on February 11 at the age of 83. Jacques Mehler was a key figure of the cognitive revolution in psychology in the 1960s and conducted foundational research on human cognition...
Boltzmann Lecture | Hydrodynamics of integrable many-body systems
12 February 2020
This year's Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Thursday, 20 February, featuring Herbert Spohn from Technical University Munich...
SISSA Student Day returns on Thursday 13 February
06 February 2020
500 students, 50 activities envisaged, scores of researchers involved and themes that range from artificial intelligence to the mysteries of the Universe...
EU Funds €3M Project to Develop Nanodevices against Epilepsy and Parkinson’s
04 February 2020
Novel nanotechnologies could be used as brain implants, modulating the activity of nerve cells electrochemically and treating neurological diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s...
HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future
03 February 2020
The Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) organizes the 2nd edition of the event "HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future" to build a dialogue on the trends and needs of the HPC world...
“Spirit of Abdus Salam Award” to Erio Tosatti
30 January 2020
Tosatti has been awarded “For his leading role in the establishment of high-level training and research activities in Condensed Matter Physics at ICTP, and for mentoring many capable young scientists from developing countries...
Alessandro Bressan's paper is the most cited MNRAS article of the last decade
29 January 2020
"PARSEC: stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code" is the most cited Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’s paper of the last decade. This article, published in 2012...
Towards one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world: the Leonardo project kicks off
28 January 2020
Taking stock of the progress and laying the foundations for future collaborations. This is the twofold objective of the kick-off meeting of the Leonardo project, that will take place at SISSA on 29 and 30 January 2020...
Seeking candidates for School's Director
27 January 2020
The International School for Advanced Studies (known as SISSA) seeks candidates for the position of Director of the School...
A new approach to reveal the multiple structures of RNA
22 January 2020
The key of the extraordinary functionality of ribonucleic acid, better known as RNA, is a highly flexible and dynamic structure. Yet, the experimental characterisation of its different configurations is rather complex. A study conducted by SISSA and published in Nucleic Acids Research...
SISSA Colloquium: Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves
14 January 2020
Barry C. Barish (Caltech and UC Riverside) will be the featured speaker for the first SISSA Colloquia of the year, focused on the discovery of Gravitational Waves...
ERC at SISSA
14 January 2020
Since the set up of the European Research Council in 2007, SISSA has secured 24 ERC grants, thus ranking among the top host institutions in Italy, especially with respect to the small faculty size...
Applications are open for PhD courses 2020/2021
08 January 2020
SISSA is accepting applications for PhD courses for the academic year 2020/2021. The school will be awarding a total of 63 fellowships across its three major research areas, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics.
SISSA Lectures & Colloquia 2020
01 January 2020
A series of Lectures and Colloquia are planned this year at SISSA also thanks to the active participation of its PhD students, who are now represented in the Colloquia Committee...
New clues on dark matter from the darkest galaxies
18 December 2019
They are called low-surface-brightness galaxies and it is thanks to them that important confirmations and new information have been obtained on one of the largest mysteries of the cosmos: dark matter ...
ERC alla SISSA: in nove video le ricerche altamente innovative finanziate dall'UE
17 December 2019
Emotions, projects, dreams are at the core of the stories of nine SISSA researchers funded by the European Research Council (ERC), now available on video. Thanks to them and their scientific excellence, SISSA explores...
New ERC Consolidator Grant to SISSA professor Francesco Benini
10 December 2019
The project "Non-perturbative dynamics of quantum fields: from new deconfined phases of matter to quantum black holes" will tackle the problem of strong interactions: an intrinsic complexity of quantum systems, across-the-board, that makes them extremely hard to study...
Physics at SISSA
06 December 2019
Advances and discoveries in science are fed by the continuous exchange of knowledge and skills among different researchers. This is the key to SISSA success and is also the spirit of the annual Intra-Area Meeting in Physics that will be held on Friday 13 December...
Erio Tosatti appointed member of Accademia dei Lincei and CAS
05 December 2019
Erio Tosatti, professor Emeritus of SISSA and coordinator of scientific programs at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), has received recognition of his expertise from two prestigious science academies...
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