The scientific journal Macromolecules dedicates the cover of this month's issue (available online from June 11th) to a research coordinated by Cristian Micheletti of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA). Micheletti and his colleagues,
that include Luca Tubiana (a former SISSA student, now working at the Josef Stefan Institute of Ljubljana) and Angelo Rosa (a researcher at SISSA) simulated the dynamics of the movements with which a polymer tends to knot.
They are young, they are physicists and they arrived in Trieste from various parts of the world to meet and exchange views.
On 3 and 4 June the "Young Researcher Meeting" was held at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), an event organized by students and postdocs of various disciplines to talk about Physics.
One of the challenges faced by those who study friction is finding a connection between the phenomena observed within the macroworld and those in the nanoworld.
The stick-slip, a phenomenon observed at every scale when two surfaces slide on one another, could be the starting point to identify such connection. The scientists at SISSA have studied such phenomenon through a system of "trapped cold ions".
SISSA has always kept focus on the international scientific scene. In such a vein, a recent activity was the creation of a network with some research institutes in Vietnam in view of top-level training in the field of Functional and Structural Genomics.
Two professors of the PhD course in Functional and Structural Genomics at SISSA, Giuseppe Legname (SISSA) and Paolo Carloni (German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Jülich), recently went to Ho Chi Min City to organize a Neurobiology course, dealing with both experimental and computational aspects.
Venerdì 24 maggio, ore 16.00, aula 005
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265
Guerre per l'acqua, ma anche azioni per preservare questo bene. Una tavola rotonda alla Scuola Internazionale Superiore di studi Avanzati (SISSA) di Trieste, gratuita e aperta al pubblico, per approfondire il tema da più punti di vista insieme ad alcuni esperti internazionali.
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Giovanni Bussi and Paolo Gidoni, a researcher and a PhD student at SISSA respectively, are among the recipients of Premio Città Impresa 2013, a yearly award devoted to "under 35" talents of the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige.
A team of researchers of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste and of University of Cambridge have devised a method to reduce the time used to simulate how proteins take on their signature three-dimensional shape.
Such important information to comprehend their function is usually obtained using often very costly experimental techniques.
The International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) has signed a collaboration agreement with some of the most innovative enterprises operating in a totally unique territory. The aim is to provide the projects conceived by the students of the Master in Complex Actions with a faster track to access the market.
Two former SISSA students are the recipients of the Armenise-Harvard Fellowship, a prestigious award assigned every year to two young science writers. The award is a confirmation of the top-level science communication courses offered by the School, a pioneer institution in the field. Precisely this year, the School will celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of its Master's Course in Science Communication, the first in Italy.
26 - 28 giugno 2013, SISSA
MAPPE è un evento dedicato alla comunicazione della scienza che si è tenuto dal 26 al 28 giugno alla SISSA di Trieste.
È anche un network che riunisce il Laboratorio Interdisciplinare della SISSA, il Master in Giornalismo e comunicazione istituzionale della scienza dell'Università di Ferrara e Fondazione IDIS - Città della Scienza di Napoli.
Wednesday 22nd May
at 5.30pm, Main Lecture Hall
From the chaos theory to the formulation of the theory of quantum gravity, including a revision of quantum mechanics: these were the themes addressed at SISSA on the occasion of the Sciama Lecture, featuring British meteorologist Tim Palmer.
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23 April 2013
With their whiskers rats can detect the texture of objects in the same way as humans do using their fingertips. A study, in which some scientists of SISSA have taken part, shows that it is possible to understand what specific object has been touched by a rat by observing the activation of brain neurons. A further step towards understanding how the brain, also in humans, represents the outside world.
1-13 July 2013
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265 - Trieste
3rd Neurobiology Summer School
The School focused on understanding the neurobiological basis of behavior in the simple nervous system of the leech, with the aim of teaching:
Wednesday April 10th at 11am
SISSA - Main Lecture Hall
A few days after the publication in the Astronomy & Astrophysics review of the results of the first fifteen months of observation carried out by the Planck satellite, a public conference has been held at SISSA. The scientists of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste and of INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (INAF-OATS) have shown and illustrated to the audience the image of the "child" Universe as observed by the instruments onboard the Planck satellite.
Monday April 8th at 11.30 am
SISSA - Lecture Room 128
A special encounter has been held at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste featuring Charles Sabine, journalist and "future" Huntington's chorea patient. Sabine gave the audience his unique personal account and addressed the importance of genetic research in fighting neurodegenerative diseases, the type of research carried out at SISSA. The event was organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Studies (LISNU) and the PHD course in Structural and Functional Genomics.
28 marzo 2013
Quattordici "cervelli in fuga" rientrati in Italia, fra cui due ricercatori della Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) di Trieste, hanno inviato una lettera aperta al ministro Francesco Profumo per chiedere razionalità e tempi certi nelle procedure per continuare a fare ricerca nel nostro Paese. I vizi burocratici e la lentezza nei processi di valutazione, infatti, rischiano di lasciarli senza lavoro e costringerli a tornare all'estero.
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25 March 2013
Mathew Diamond and Davide Zoccolan, two neuroscientists of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, are among the recipients of an important award that will finance an international research project over the next three years.
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