Among physical phenomena, phase transitions are known to elude a simple physical description. They are characterized by sudden change in macroscopic properties as the temperature is varied (e.g. in melting of ice, or the loss of magnetization of a magnet...
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"A generous genius, who never had any qualms about sharing his ideas with others. Also because he always had so many ideas, too many to be able to realize them all by himself. It’s a nice Nobel Prize". Our director, Stefano Ruffo, movingly made his comment on ANSA in recognition of Giorgio Parisi, with whom he worked at the beginning of his career, remaining in close contact with him to this day.
The Italian Ministry of University published the list of the nine funded projects of Mathematics in the panel PE1, for the three-years public research projects PRIN2020: two of them are led by two professors of the SISSA research group in Mathematical Analysis ...
What makes our brains capable of advanced functions? This is what Carmen Falcone, one of the winners of the Human Technopole Early Career Fellowship Program, will investigate. The program provides for the funding of five scholarships for five young researchers from foreign institutes to carry out their research in Italy.
What makes our brains capable of advanced functions? This is what Carmen Falcone, one of the winners of the Human Technopole Early Career Fellowship Program, will investigate. The program provides for the funding of five scholarships for five young researchers from foreign institutes to carry out their research in Italy.
The 4th issue of SISSA newsletter is online! We have gathered eight pieces of news for you about our community. From a new website about Data Science to SISSA in the clouds and the winning performance of our deputy director Mathew Diamond at FAMELAB BIG 2021...
The PIN1 protein plays a fundamental role in the structure of the cell nucleus and in protecting the DNA contained in them from mechanical stress. This is the mechanism investigated in the study recently published in Cell Reports coordinated by Prof. Giannino Del Sal and carried out by ICGEB, UNITS, IFOM of Milan, with the collaboration of SISSA ...
The Rector of the University of Camerino will hold the special seminar "Metal organic frameworks for next-generation materials" from 11:00 in room 128-129.
An epidemic is so dangerous because nothing happens until everything happens. The great wave fed on bodies, growing exponentially doubling after doubling, until in March it became the largest blue mass we’ve seen in decades. As in wartime, there were no more good decisions but only some less bad than others ...
From 24 to 26 September Trieste Next and the European Researchers' Night are back. The tenth edition of the Festival of Scientific Research is entitled "TAKE CARE. Science for sustainable wellbeing"...
New research carried out by the SISSA Tactile Perception and Learning Lab, directed by Mathew Diamond, investigates the role of a specific area of the rat brain, the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in time perception. The report argues that this brain region holds a clock for absolute time, but that clock is not converted into a percept of elapsed time ...
The course has been designed by Paolo Salucci (SISSA) and financially supported by the EU through a Horizon 2020 Twinnings Grant. The video-lessons are addressed to University/Master/PhD students but also to researchers or teachers...
Uppers, smart drugs, non-invasive stimulation techniques are among the many accessible pharmacological and technological practices that allow healthy individuals to enhance their emotional and cognitive functions. From 4 to 6 october 2021, the School of Neuroethics...
After a year's absence, the SISSA PARTY is finally coming back! On Friday 17 of September, from 8.00 pm to 1.00 am...
“SISSA Hosting” is the new art&science project that will present the School to the event's participants through the voices of SISSA people...
The study, published in Physical Reviews Letters, has involved Cristian Micheletti from SISSA, and Philipp Hauke and Pietro Faccioli from the University of Trento...
From 8 to 12 September, the Miramare Castle in Trieste and the Fortress of Gradisca will be transformed into exceptional videomapping sets with "LIBRA: una storia futura"...
A long past in the theoretical division of CERN and a career devoted to innovation and interdisciplinarity make him a significant figure in the evolution of the School and in the physics of the 20th century ...
A new study, published in eLife by MIT and SISSA shows that rats can accurately discriminate objects that are illuminated only by red light. The findings have implications for the design of experiments and to ensure optimal environmental lighting conditions for animals’ well-being ...
As provided the new Decree-Law August 6, 2021 n. 111, the Green Pass will be mandatory for all university staff, professor and administrative technician, doctoral candidates, research fellows, fellows, collaborators, starting from 1 September until 31 December 2021. Further information will be coming soon.