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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SISSA, with a unanimous resolution of the Academic Senate, has recently launched a number of measures in relation to the humanitarian and political situation in the Palestinian territories, and in particular in the Gaza Strip...
The Committee will meet with SISSA PhD Coordinators, the three Area Coordinators, the ILAS Director, the CUG President, SISSA PIs as well as with the representatives of the non scientific staff, and the PhD students’ representatives...
The Trieste Film Festival, Italy’s leading event dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema will return from 16 to 24 January 2026 for its 37th edition...
The exhibition invites visitors to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping everyday life, focusing on four key areas: online scams, harassment, political influence and stereotyping. After travelling through ten European countries, Supercharged by AI will be on display at SISSA from 2 to 19 December, in the ground-floor atrium...
Three mathematicians, Yu Deng from the University of Chicago, Riccardo Montalto from the University of Milan, and Hong Wang from New York University, are the recipients of the 2025 Antonio Ambrosetti Medal...
The ranking compiled by Clarivate identifies the most influential researchers in the world in their field. Within the entire global population of scientists and social scientists,, “Highly Cited Researchers" represent 1 in 1,000. Each selected researcher is the author of multiple Highly Cited Papers, which over the past eleven years have ranked in the top 1% most cited...
SISSA and the independent media outlet FACTA have been awarded funding from the Journalism Science Alliance for their joint project The Unwetlands. A Satellite-Based Investigation into Italy’s Lost Wetlands...
The study, recently published in Neuron, shows that distinct perceptual biases – long thought to arise from separate brain systems – can, in fact, be explained by a single, biologically grounded mechanism. The research, led by professors Sebastian Goldt and Mathew E. Diamond, and first-authored by Francesca Schönsberg...
A new study reveals that during a possible phase of primordial matter domination, interactions between particles could have given rise to the first compact cosmic objects. The research, conducted by researchers from SISSA in collaboration with INFN, IFPU, and the University of Warsaw, has been published in Physical Review D...
New research from SISSA reveals the existence, in rats, of direct cross-modal interactions between distinct sensory modalities, capable of modulating perceptual processing. Specifically, auditory signals were found to compress the visual perceptual space in rodents...
The SISSA professor receives the 2026 Rahman Prize — the most prestigious international recognition for those who harness the power of supercomputers to uncover new laws of nature and apply them to cutting-edge technologies.
The Orientation Day 2025 will take place on Friday, 14 November, starting at 9:30 a.m. in Room 128-129. During the event, the student representatives will offer an introduction to life at SISSA, providing useful information about the School’s services and practical aspects of student life...
A new SISSA study, published in Physical Review Letters, clarifies a theoretical puzzle in a model system for strong interactions
Founded in 2010 with fewer than ten members, SISSA mathLab is today a well-established reality. On Wednesday, October 29, it will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary with the event Innovation is Mathematics. The celebration will feature the participation of the group’s founders and members, together with representatives of several industrial partners...
The goal of the event is to explore the connection between AI and health in its various dimensions — from basic research to possible applications in clinical practice, and its use in healthcare services...
The inaugural ceremony will take place starting at 11:00 a.m. in the “Paolo Budinich” Main Lecture Hall. The event will open with institutional greetings and a welcome address by SISSA Director Andrea Romanino. This will be followed by remarks from representatives of the SISSA community...
Reflecting on the spread of generative artificial intelligence technologies, analyzing their opportunities, challenges and ethical and regulatory implications. This is the goal of the Artificial Intelligence Forum, a festival dedicated to AI organized by the Municipality of Tavagnacco and DITEDI, in collaboration with SISSA. The School participates with two round tables on innovation and a conversation between Gianluigi Rozza and Amalia Ercoli Finzi...
SISSA Colloquium returns on Monday, October 20th, at 2 PM in Aula Magna Budinich with Professor Gábor Tamás (University of Szeged, Hungary)
What are the elements and resources that make a quantum computer so advantageous compared to traditional computers?
A new study published in PRX Quantum by Alessio Paviglianiti, Guglielmo Lami, Mario Collura, and Alessandro Silva from SISSA has sought to answer this question...