29 February 2020
The 2020/2021 calendar of Lectures and Colloquia

The 2021 calendar of Lectures and Colloquia at SISSA
- Tuesday 13 April 2021
New Avenues in Cosmology in the New Decade and Beyond
David Spergel, Princeton University and Flatiron Institute, USA
- Wednesday 3 March 2021
Anton Alexeev, Université de Genève, Switzerland
- Saturday February 20 2021
Boltzmann Lecture 2021
- DATE TBD
Joint SISSA-ICTP Colloquia
Riccardo Sabatini, Orionis Biosciences, USA
Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquia 2020
- Wednesday 14 October - 4 pm, Zoom webinar
A Random Walk Through Physics To The Nobel Prize
John Michael Kosterlitz, Brown University, USA
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- Thursday 2 July 2020 - 4 pm, Zoom webinar
Generic regularity in obstacle problems
Alessio Figalli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Wednesday 3 June - 4pm, Zoom webinar
The Stochastic Thermodynamics of Computation
David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA
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- Wednesday 13 May - 4 pm, Zoom webinar
Digital Herd Immunity and COVID-19
Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University, USA
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- Wednesday 6 May - 3 pm, Zoom webinar
Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19
Alex Vespignani, Northeastern University, USA
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- Friday 24 April - 2 pm, Zoom webinar
Epidemic control of COVID-19 through instantaneous contact tracing: the case for a mobile app-based solution
Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford (UK)
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SISSA Colloquia 2020
- Tuesday 12 November 2020
Partitions, polynomials and generating functions
Ragni Piene, University of Oslo, Norway
- Wednesday 1 July 2020 - 10 am, Zoom webinar
Universality and Structures in Natural Language and DNA Sequences (no smoothie, please)
Mirko Degli Espositi, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Monday 27 January 2020 - 6 pm, SISSA, "P. Budinich" Main Lecture Hall
Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Barry Barish, Caltech and UC Riverside, USA
SISSA Colloquia are organised also thanks to the active participation of its PhD students, who are now represented in the Colloquia Committee.
Plenary Scientific Lectures 2020
- Thursday 2 July 2020 - 2 pm, Zoom Webinar
The Neurobiology of Long-Term Memory: Key Molecules, Diverse Cell Types, Temporal Dynamics, and Critical Periods
Cristina Maria Alberini, New York University, US - Monday 29 June 2020 - 10 am, Zoom Webinar
Don't average! Learning from fluctuations in diffusive processes
Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam (Germany) and University of Edinburgh (UK) - Monday 15 June 2020 - 10.00 am, Zoom webinar
Themes and Motifs in Theoretical High Energy Physics
Alberto Lerda, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy - Wednesday 6 May 2020 - 10.00 am, Zoom webinar
From inelastic X-ray scattering to neuroscience
Giancarlo Ruocco, IIT and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - Thursday 30 April 2020 - 10.00 am, Zoom webinar
Synthetic Quantum Matter
Rosario Fazio, ICTP and Università Federico II, Italy - Tuesday 28 April 2020 - 10.00 am, Zoom webinar
Pattern Formation Through Spatial Segregation
Susanna Terracini, University of Torino, Italy
Special Lectures 2020
- Thursday 20 February 2020 - 2.30 pm, SISSA, Room 128-129
Boltzmann Lecture | Hydrodynamics of integrable many-body systems
Herbert Spohn, Technical University Munich, Germany
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