Today, the SISSA community gathered for a brief moment of remembrance in solidarity with all those affected by the tragic events currently unfolding in Iran. SISSA is committed to turning solidarity into practical support and, together with the relevant offices and services, is working on concrete measures to assist members of our community...
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Ageing is not a purely degenerative phenomenon, but a dynamic process involving biological, experiential and environmental factors. This is the result of two different projects conducted at SISSA as part of Age-it, which thus demonstrate the existence of possible protective and corrective factors...
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On the tenth anniversary of his disappearance, SISSA remembers him as an example of passion, determination, and courage. Our School joins all those voices calling for the silences, evasions, and unanswered questions that still surround this tragic case to finally be broken...
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SISSA Professor Serguey Petcov tells: “In an article published in 2002 in the journal Physics Letters B, my Ph.D. student Maurizio Piai and I proposed an experiment with reactor neutrinos emitted copiously by the nuclear reactors in nuclear power plants, to determine the spectrum of masses of neutrinos...
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Despite the School’s small size, three projects have been funded through the most selective funding program of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). A result that once again recognises the quality of research at SISSA...
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The critical thinking of students and scientists at risk, opaque results, fabricated content, and much more. In an article published in Nature Astronomy, SISSA scientist Roberto Trotta warns against “AI scientific junk.” Because, he says, “students, scientists and institutions could end up trapped by it.”...
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All the upcoming Special Lectures and Colloquia organized by SISSA in 2025
Since the set up of the European Research Council in 2007, SISSA has secured 34 ERC grants, thus ranking among the top host institutions in Italy, especially with respect to the small faculty size...
On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary, the School is pleased to announce the foundation of the SISSA Alumni Society. It is open to all former SISSA students who have completed a PhD course, obtained a MPhil degree, or attended a Master’s degree...
Announcements
Soroptimist International d'Italia is organising a free three-day training course for young women titled Futuro al Femminile: Women Driving Progress. The course is part of a joint project between Soroptimist International d’Italia and Bocconi University and will be host
Applications are now open for the 15th edition of the Premio Nazionale GiovedìScienza, aimed at early-career researchers (under 35) who wish to give visibility to their work and engage in science communication.
Within the framework of their Collaboration Protocol, the Camera dei Deputati and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei have established a joint programme of cultural and scientific initiatives aimed at fostering informed reflection on the transformations underway i
On 25 January 2016, Giulio Regeni was abducted in Cairo. Giulio was a PhD student in Political and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and was in Egypt to carry out his research. His tortured body was found on 3 February on the outskirts of the capital.
Events
The 2026 edition of the traditional Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Monday, February 23rd, at 14:00 in Room 128–129. Michele Caselle, from the Department of Physics at the University of Tur...
The conference will feature over 40 sessions addressing some of the most pressing issues in contemporary science communication. The programme involves around 125 speakers, offering a rich and multi...
The next SISSA Colloquium will be held Monday, October 20th, at 14:00 with a special lecture by Gabor Tamas ( Research Group for Cortical Microcircuits, University of Szeged, Hungary )
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The Quadratic Formula Revisited
High school students learn how to express the solution of a quadratic equation in one unknown in terms of its three coefficients. Why does this formula m...
