Chatbots like ChatGPT were unthinkable a few years ago. Now they are part of our everyday life. However, we still don’t know why they work so well and how good these techniques can become in the future. With his project “beyond2”, SISSA physicist Sebastian Goldt hopes to discover the fundamental theoretical principles that allow neural networks to achieve that kind of performance and learn something about the structure of language in the process. Thanks to the European Research Council, he will have 1.5 million Euros over the next five years to pursue his dream.
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A recent study by SISSA cosmologists explores the Hubble Tension, proposing a new method to measure the Universe's expansion and assess potential discrepancies with the standard cosmological model.
A recent study published in Physical Review Letters reveals that quantum systems with long-range interactions exhibit different behaviours under various thermodynamic conditions...
Statistical physics, biophysics, astroparticle physics and data science. These are the research fields of the young researchers who will spend two years at SISSA thanks to the funding programme of the European Commision’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions...
Enrollments for the Master in Comunicazione della Scienza “Franco Prattico" (MCS), organised by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA, are now open. Founded in 1993, MCS is a one-year course held in Italian, aiming to train professionals in various fields of science communication...
Liquid water below the freezing point shows surprising electric properties. Researchers find that supercooled water spontaneously develops long-lived electric fields in a study that investigates the coexistence of two liquid phases below freezing temperature. The result was discovered by researchers at SISSA and ICTP, in Italy, and published in the journal PNAS.
Sara Murciano, who completed her doctorate in the Statistical Physics group at SISSA in Trieste, received the prestigious "Sergio Fubini" prize for her thesis entitled "Entanglement and symmetries in many-body quantum systems."
In a new article just published in the journal Physical Review Research, Antimo Marrazzo from SISSA and Nicola Colonna, from the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland, advocate for a paradigm shift by introducing a new functional approach that allows...
On July 22nd, the new Missions Regulation, as approved by the governing bodies and shared with representatives of students and faculty, will come into effect...
The “strange metal” is a state of quantum matter, ubiquitous in modern materials, present above the critical temperature of higher temperature superconductors...
A new study by SISSA shows that Foxg1, the “master gene” of key processes taking place in the developing brain, also finely regulates the biology of certain retrotransposons, or “jumping genes”...
The seminar will take place on 7 June 7 at 11.30, room 128-129. Slava Mukhanov, from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, is the outgoing editor-in-chief of JCAP...
Published in "Astronomy & Astrophysics", the research offers significant support for the so-called "Self-Interacting Dark Matter" theory – an alternative to the standard cosmological model...
The traditional SISSA Sciama Colloquium returns on Wednesday June 12th with a very special guest: Ed Witten, from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, who will hold a seminar titled "Black Hole Thermodynamics: Then and Now". The event will be held in Aula Magna Paolo Budinich (Via Bonomea, 265) starting from 17:00.
The Boris Dubrovin medal was created in memory of the great mathematician Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, Professor at SISSA from 1993 to 2019, whose activity in the past forty years was a point of reference for many researchers in the field...
Today, ESA’s Euclid space mission releases five unprecedented new views of the Universe. The never-before-seen images demonstrate Euclid’s ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos and enable scientists to hunt for rogue planets, use lensed galaxies to study mysterious matter, and explore the evolution of the Universe.
The contribution of SISSA to the initiative and the review was central. Prof. Angelo Rosa served as the coordinator of the EUTOPIA working group "Polymeric and Fibrous Topological Materials"...
A new approach from SISSA for mathematical models that can “recognize” when they make errors
A new SISSA study published in the prestigious journal PNAS has developed a new statistical analysis method to distinguish the absence of cause from causes that generate very small effects.
SISSA opens its doors with an Open Day! On 17 May, starting at 2 p.m., an entire afternoon to discover our university. At our campus in via Bonomea 265, there will be many activities for young and adults...