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...
From 11 to 19 April, the scientific book fair organised by SISSA Master's Course in Science Communication “Franco Prattico” and the City of Trieste returns to the bookshops of Trieste ...
SISSA offers 2 fellowships in the framework of an "Advanced Training Programme" leading to a fast track PhD in connection with the Inter-University Master course in Physics jointly delivered by the Universities of Trieste and Udine ...
Binge eating, as if the impulse of the moment could not be contrasted by a deeper thought, which would lead to maintaining a healthier eating behaviour. The results of a new study conducted by Damiano Terenzi, Raffaella Rumiati and Marilena Aiello...
On Wednesday 4 April, a lecture by Karen Vogtmann of Warwick University will open the series of appointments with SISSA Colloquia...
Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were deemed able to perform such complex operations as...
Tiny and very promising for possible applications in the field of nanoelectronics: they are the graphene nanoflakes studied by a SISSA’s team...
It is widely agreed that the nature of knowledge production in contemporary societies is changing, due especially to the so called phenomenon of marketisation in universities and other
public organisations. On 21 March, SISSA will be holding a panel discussion to...
