SISSA Lectures & Colloquia 2023

SISSA Colloquia 2023

• Thursday February 23rd 2023, 16:30 
  Universality, fractality and a new morphological syntax for the cerebral cortex
  Bruno Mota, Instituto de Física - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquia 2023:

• Tuesday May 9th 2023, 16:00 
  Large Random Matrices and beyond
  Alice Guionnet, Director of Research, ENS de Lyon
  Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building
   
• Wednesday April 12th 2023, 16:00 
  On some variational problems involving functions with bounded Hessian
  Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP
   
• Monday January 30th 2023, 16:00 
  The Physics of Catalysis
  Michele Parrinello, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova
  Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquia 2022:

• Wednesday October 19th 2022 - 17:00
  Sciama SISSA Colloquium
  Theodor Jacobson, University of Maryland
  Aula 128-129, SISSA (in person)
   
• Friday September 23rd  2022 - 15:00
  Quantum computing for applications in physics and chemistry
  Ivano Tavernelli, IBM Quantum, IBM Research
  Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP (in person)

   

• Tuesday June 14th  2022 - 16:00
  Quantum entanglement at all distances
  Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
  Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP (in person)

The 2020-2021 archive of Lectures and Colloquia at SISSA:

• Wednesday November 24th 2021 - 16:00
  Probing the synaptic plasticity theory of memory
  Antonino Cattaneo, European Brain Research Institute & Scuola Normale Superiore
  Watch the webinar
   
• Thursday 10 June 2021 - 16:00
  The  Schrödinger equations as inspiration of beautiful mathematics.
  Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Watch the webinar
   
• Tuesday 25 May 2021 - 16:00
  New Avenues for Cosmology in The New Decade
  David Spergel, Flatiron Institue & Princeton University, USA
  Watch the webinar

• Thursday 13 May 2021 - 16:00 - Joint SISSA-ICTP Colloquia
  Riccardo Sabatini, Orionis Biosciences, USA
   
• Wednesday 17 March 2021 - 16:00 - Joint SISSA-ICTP Colloquia
  Integration by localisation in finite and infinite dimensions
  Anton Alexeev, Université de Genève, Switzerland
   
• Monday 22 February 2021 - 14:30 -  Boltzmann Lecture 2021
  Thermodynamic concepts out of equilibrium: from classical to quantum
  Prof. Leticia Cugliandolo, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies Sorbonne Université, Paris and Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
  Watch the webinar

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquia 2020

• Wednesday 14 October - 16:00, Zoom webinar
  A Random Walk Through Physics To The Nobel Prize
  John Michael Kosterlitz, Brown University, USA
  Watch the webinar
   
• Thursday 2 July 2020  - 16:00, Zoom webinar
  Generic regularity in obstacle problems
  Alessio Figalli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
   
• Wednesday 3 June - 16:00, Zoom webinar
  The Stochastic Thermodynamics of Computation
  David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA
  Watch the webinar
   
• Wednesday 13 May - 16:00, Zoom webinar
  Digital Herd Immunity and COVID-19
  Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University, USA
  Watch the webinar
• Wednesday 6 May - 15:00, Zoom webinar
  Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19
  Alex Vespignani, Northeastern University, USA
  Watch the webinar
   
• Friday 24 April - 14:00, 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)
  Watch the webinar

SISSA Colloquia 2020

• Tuesday 12 November 2020
  Partitions, polynomials and generating functions
  Ragni Piene, University of Oslo, Norway

• Wednesday 1 July 2020 - 10:00, 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 - 18:00, 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 - 14:00, 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 - 10:00, 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, Zoom webinar 
  Themes and Motifs in Theoretical High Energy Physics
  Alberto Lerda, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
   
• Wednesday 6 May 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
  From inelastic X-ray scattering to neuroscience
  Giancarlo Ruocco, IIT and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
   
• Thursday 30 April 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
  Synthetic Quantum Matter
  Rosario Fazio, ICTP and Università Federico II, Italy
   
• Tuesday 28 April 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
  Pattern Formation Through Spatial Segregation
  Susanna Terracini, University of Torino, Italy

Special Lectures 2020

• Thursday 20 February 2020 - 14:30, SISSA, Room 128-129
  Boltzmann Lecture | Hydrodynamics of integrable many-body systems
  Herbert Spohn, Technical University Munich, Germany