29 February 2020
The 2022/2023 calendar of Lectures and Colloquia
SISSA Colloquia 2023
- Tuesday October 3rd 2023, 15:00
Astroglia in ageing and neurodegeneration
Alexei Verkhratsky - Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Manchester
Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building
- 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
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