Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) is part of a network of eight Italian higher education institutions collaborating on the Educating Future Citizens (EFC) project, funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR). The initiative aims to strengthen orientation and advanced training activities, offering new opportunities for upper secondary school and university students.
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The Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC), jointly organized by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), is now accepting applications for its 12th edition. This advanced training program is designed to equip students with the skills needed to harness, manage, and optimize cutting-edge HPC technologies.
About the Program
MHPC is a 12-month intensive specialization course that provides a solid foundation in:
The 2025 edition of the traditional Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Thursday, February 20th, at 14:00 in Aula Magna Budinich. Professor Satya N. Majumdar from CNRS and Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay will give a seminar titled Stochastic Resetting.
Two papers authored by researchers from SISSA’s physics area, in collaboration with international research groups, have been included in the prestigious “PRL Collection of the Year”
The Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste is ready to welcome 500 fourth- and fifth-year secondary school students for the SISSA Student Day 2025, a unique opportunity to dive into the world of contemporary research...
The funding amounts to €1,653,000. Due to its rigorous selection process and the size of the funds allocated, the FIS is considered an Italian counterpart to the ERC. Soldano’s project will investigate how modifications to RNA...
FameLab is back in Trieste: the city will host the local selection of the international competition challenging young scientists with the talent of communication to tell in just 3 minutes the object of his or her study, or a scientific topic they are interested in...
The first SISSA colloquium of 2025 will be held on February 12th with Alfio Quarteroni (PoliMi, EPFL)
Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience Lab led by Davide Zoccolan.
A study conducted by cognitive neuroscientists at SISSA explored the relationship between the processing of space and time in the human brain, revealing that these two types of information are only partially linked in our brain...
We are pleased to announce the official opening of the Call for Proposals for the 14th National Conference in Science Communication, which will take place at SISSA from 2 to 5 December 2025.
Organised by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA, the conference is a valuable opportunity for researchers and professionals in science communication to exchange ideas and engage in meaningful discussions.
A dialogue between Giuseppe Mussardo and Chiara Sabelli about the history of quantum mechanics, retracing the fundamental milestones, key figures, and most significant moments of one of the greatest scientific revolutions of the 20th century...
JoTTOFair is the meeting event where the research carried out at the six Italian Schools for Advanced Studies that take part in JoTTO meets the Business world...
A recent study by Romina Wild and SISSA Professor Alessandro Laio, along with Felix Wodaczek, Vittorio Del Tatto, and Bingqing Cheng, published in the journal Nature Communications, introduces a new method for the automatic selection and balancing of features in molecular systems: Differentiable Information Imbalance (DII)...
This international prize recognises significant contributions in the area of Dynamical Systems, published in the years 2019-2023, evaluating new theoretical approaches and methodologies and the relevance of the applications...
Starting from supernovae and gamma rays and following a backward approach in the history of these celestial bodies, researchers at SISSA have achieved a new result that defines the mass of newly formed stars...
From 16 to 24 January 2025, the Trieste Film Festival will offer, as every year, international competitions of feature films, documentaries and short films from Central and Eastern Europe, special events, retrospectives, out-of-competition screenings, meetings with authors, masterclasses, book presentations, concerts, exhibitions and much more...
“Stay Fresh – Sustainability in the Fridge”: On December 12 at Caffè San Marco, the launch of the third season of the podcast "Alla Ricerca," dedicated to science and innovation in Friuli Venezia Giulia
Chiara De Santi has been awarded the Pezcoller Foundation scholarship, granted to the top candidate in the selection process for SISSA's Master’s in Science Communication 'Franco Prattico' for the 2024-25 academic year...
Matching the knowledge and expertise of researchers with industrial needs: this is the goal of TCube (Trieste Tech Transfer), a generative artificial intelligence platform developed by SISSA in collaboration with RES Group. The pilot version of TCube will be presented...