July 6, 2012
We all agree on this: the discovery of this new particle, announced last 4th July at CERN, is of historical importance. But are we sure of its real identity?
The director of SISSA, Guido Martinelli, comments on this news explaining why this discovery is "somehow disappointing".
SISSA actively promotes and supports talented young researchers and also this year this can be done by SISSA Excellence Grants, grants for post-doctoral research projects awarded to scientists at the beginning of their career, showing talent, initiative and independence.
This € 392,000 financing divided over 3 years will cover two positions. At the end of the project particularly successful researchers could be considered for a permanent position at SISSA.
July 5, 2012
The discovery of the Higgs boson is an extraordinary success of scientific research on theoretical and experimental physics and of modern technology, and it is an important step forward to understand the components and the fundamental forces of nature. At SISSA, one of the most important international research centers, Particle Physics is one of the main research fields and some researchers have enthusiastically welcomed this important event.
September 18th-19th 2012
Different fields of cognitive sciences - language acquisition, music, mathematics, reasoning, animal communication, pragmatics and social cognition - and their interactions, as well as neuroscience will be the topics of this workshop.
INVITED SPEAKERS:
LUCA BONATTI // ICREA and Pompeu Fabra Uni. Barcelona - Spain
At the origin of human rationality: infants' reasoning about future events
STANISLAS DEHAENE // Collège de France and Neurospin, Saclay - France
Wednesday July 4, 2012, 8:45
SISSA - Lecture Hall 128
Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in CMS and ATLAS.
Venerdì 29 giugno, ore 16
Circolo della Stampa di Trieste – Corso Italia, 13
June 26, 2012
Thomas Sotiriou, a SISSA researcher, has been recently awarded with an ERC Starting Grant, for the proposal entitled "Challenging General Relativity". The research project has been funded with € 1,375,226.
Sabato 23 giugno, ore 19
Castello di San Giusto - Piazza della Cattedrale, 3 (Trieste)
Un aperitivo che diventa un momento di incontro tra innovatori, giovani imprenditori e investitori.L'evento, nato grazie alla collaborazione tra il Master in Complex Actions della SISSA e The HUB Trieste, sarà un'occasione semplice e informale per presentare e condividere i propri progetti e le proprie idee imprenditoriali. Ospite d'eccezione della serata Kevin Johnson.
Cosa fare nel caso di un'epidemia zombie? Se lo sono chiesto due studenti del Master in Comunicazione della Scienza della SISSA, che hanno affrontato in modo stravagante ma rigoroso il tema della comunicazione del rischio.Lo scenario apparentemente assurdo ha infatti molte similitudini con un'epidemia reale, come pure le (im)probabili reazioni da parte delle istituzioni e della popolazione. Il risultato è un divertente quanto accurato opuscolo informativo messo in vendita online per i più curiosi (o previdenti).
Venerdì 15 giugno
ore 18:30
CafèRossetti - Largo Giorgio Gaber, 2 (Trieste)
Prendete un esperto di cibo di fama mondiale, un gruppo di giovani ricercatori della SISSA con un'idea imprenditoriale e un giovane chef; aggiungete degli insetti e mescolate: otterrete un'esperienza del tutto originale, un aperitivo a base di insetti, scienza e business.
Philippe Nozières
Wednesday June 13, 2012
11.00 a.m.
SISSA - Aula Magna
"Sixty years of condensed matter physics: a changing world, as fascinating as ever in a worrying social context"
Philippe Nozières.
Abstract:
Condensed matter physics has changed since the fifties: I attempt to retrace its evolution in the light of my own trajectory.
On Friday 11th May, SISSA opened its doors to Trieste organizing several events for schools and public: lectures, exhibitions, concerts and games. The theme of the day was "The sound, the hearing and the music", three elements that are representative of the topics studied at the School: neuroscience, mathematics and physics.
A short video sums the day. Enjoy!
Durante SISSA in Festa, John Nicholls, neuroscienziato, ha incuriosito il pubblico raccontando quali sono i meccanismi che ci consentono di riconoscere la differenza fra i suoni dei vari strumenti musicali, parlando poi delle conoscenze scientifiche sul meccanismo dell'udito più in generale.
A project coordinated by SISSA in Trieste and financed by the EU aims at developing new theoretical tools in the service of new frontiers in computation.
The European project Irses-Quantum Integrability, Conformal Field Theory and Topological Quantum Computation, coordinated by Giuseppe Mussardo of SISSA in Trieste, aims at developing new theoretical tools to be applied to frontiers in computation, to take a step further towards super-calculus and quantum computers.
Quattro modalità espressive - dipinti, fotografie, filmati e installazioni artistiche - da realizzare a scelta nell'ambito di uno dei quattro temi proposti: energia, cervello, ambiente, universo. Sono questi gli spazi espressivi del concorso organizzato dalla SISSA, in collaborazione con l'Università di Trieste. L'iniziativa, giunta alla sua terza edizione, si rivolge alle scuole medie superiori della provincia con l'intento di stimolare i giovani ad avvicinarsi al mondo della scienza, per raccontarla in modo inedito e originale.
7 - 9 May, 2012 / Meeting Room VII Floor
The focus of the workshop is to connect people with a background spanning from Physics of Soft Tissues, Continuum Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. The workshop is supported by the projects MathLCEs and BrainIFEM, and will cover three specific applications in the areas of biological tissues in pathological conditions, and synthetic tissues.
21 - 22 May 2012
We are honored to inform you about the International Workshop on Essential metals in brain development and neurodegeneration that will be held on May 21-22 2012 in Trieste (Italy).
The Workshop aims at gathering together researchers with different backgrounds, who are interested in the role of essential metals in brain development and neurodegeneration. Speakers are encouraged to address important open problems, stimulate discussion and interaction among participants.
Un'Aula Magna con 500 posti e un teatro all'aperto che può ospitare 250 spettatori. Entrambi disponibili per Enti pubblici e privati cittadini che ne facciano richiesta. E poi un parco di 10 mila mq, sempre aperto alla città, con installazioni scientifiche permanenti da sperimentare.
AIP, the Italian Association of Psychology awarded one of the two prizes for the Sperimental Section 2011 to Liuba Papeo, for her SISSA PhD thesis titled "The tie between action and language is in our imagination". AIP is one of the national landmarks for Italian psychologists since 1992.
