What does it mean to think? How does an idea come about? How much of our way of knowing depends on the brain, and how much on our interactions with the environment, other human beings and technology? These are some of the questions at the heart of the fifteenth edition of Trieste Next, the Festival of Scientific Research scheduled for 25 to 27 September 2026 under the title ‘The Shape of Thought: Interactions between Brains and Intelligences’...
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The prestigious European grant has been awarded to the young Sicilian scientist. The ERC Starting Grant will support five years of research on extended objects in quantum systems and the physics of confinement...
The round table brings together academic and industry figures from Italy and China to explore how mathematics fuels innovation, knowledge transfer, and the connection between research and society, with a particular focus on how basic research feeds into technological, economic, and social development...
Two studies from SISSA show that cognitive reserve built over a lifetime, together with emotional resources, helps preserve mental abilities in adults over 65. Conducted by the research group led by neuroscientist Raffaella Rumiati, both studies were carried out as part of the Age-It project...
A new self-assembly Monte Carlo method developed at SISSA makes it possible to simulate giant dense polymer systems on an unprecedented scale, revealing that their entanglements are not diffuse but rather concentrated in localized knots and links...
"We owe the SISSA we know today to him." The words with which SISSA celebrated Daniele Amati’s 90th birthday in 2021 resonate today with even greater intensity and emotion. Having passed away during the night, Amati leaves a profound and lasting mark on the history of the School...
Before the Fields Medal came the Ambrosetti Medal. Hong Wang and Yu Deng, who have just been awarded the Fields Medal—the world’s most prestigious distinction for mathematicians under the age of 40—had already been honoured at SISSA in the fall 2025 with the medal named after Antonio Ambrosetti, which is awarded to outstanding emerging researchers in the field of Nonlinear Analysis. The recipients of the Fields Medals were announced during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2026, in Philadelphia.
“ECCOMAS has become a very important reference point at the European level for research in numerical methods for the applied sciences. It has helped build a strong and cohesive community that brings together applied and industrial mathematics with computational mechanics, broadening the horizons of European national societies. It is a true honour to be among the first to receive this distinction.” These are the words of Gianluigi Rozza, who was named this morning a Fellow of ECCOMAS, the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences...
Massimiliano Berti, Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis at SISSA, has been invited to give a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026, the most important international event in mathematics...
A new study shows that the Universal Rotation Curve extends far beyond the stellar disk, suggesting that visible matter and dark matter are linked much more deeply than previously thought. This finding also raises the possibility of the existence of a new dark matter particle, still unknown but capable of interacting with ordinary matter...
Antonino has been one of the most influential neuroscientists of his generation and in his long academic career was full professor of Biophysics at SISSA from 1991 to 2008...
The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission, openining the door for the study of exoplanets in the region
Founded in 1993 and the first of its kind in Europe, the MCS programme is an advanced course designed to train the next generation of science communicators...
Why does the Universe fascinate us and help us understand who we are? What does mathematics study when numbers come to an end? How does the brain keep track of the passing of time? These are just some of the questions that SISSA researchers will explore on Thursday, 2 July, starting at 5:00 p.m...
The new edition of SISSA Women in Mathematics is scheduled for June 12, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., exactly one month after the International Women in Mathematics Day on May 12, established to commemorate Maryam Mirzakhani—the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal.
As part of the PRO-BEN project promoted by CUG, SISSA is hosting a community event on identity, work, and professional life in and beyond academia. The event will take place on Wednesday, 10 June 2026 at 3:30 pm in the Big Meeting Room, 7th floor.
Panellists:
- Val Pomakov (PhD student)
- Nour El Kazwini (Postdoctoral researcher)
- Anna Menini (Principal Investigator)
- René Buttò (Head of the Valorisation and Innovation Office)
Facilitated by Elisa Cunial, Chartered Counselling Psychologist (UK) and leading counselling groups at SISSA.
This time of the year you can allocate your 5x1000 to SISSA to support university education and scientific research.
Choosing to donate your 5x1000 comes at no extra cost to you, yet it provides direct and meaningful support to a public institution of excellence in research and advanced education. From frontier science to clinical applications, SISSA is an open research laboratory committed to generating tangible benefits for knowledge and society.
The Cosmos Prize is an initiative aimed at promoting scientific culture in Italy. Every year, it awards two prizes to the best science communication works published in Italian in the fields of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics. One of the two prizes is selected by hundreds of Italian high school students...
How can communication be made more effective in academic and professional settings? And how can misunderstandings and conflicts be prevented in high-performance teams? These are the questions addressed by “The Empathy Algorithm”, a workshop promoted as part of SISSA’s wellbeing initiatives...
The Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA and FACTA, an Italian independent media, are hosting a two-day workshop in Trieste bringing together journalists, scientists and artists to explore how difficult-to-observe environments can be investigated through remote sensing, satellite data and artificial intelligence, and how that data can be turned into compelling stories...