The next SISSA colloquium will be held live on Zoom Thursday, June 10, 2021, at 4 PM, and will feature Gigliola Staffilani, Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor at MIT.
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According to the Global Ranking of Academic SubjectsSISSA mathematics area ranks in the top 75 internationally...
In a long feature on Trieste, National Geographic describes Trieste as "poised for a new era of prosperity", a city whose "revolutionaries are scientists".
The results of the second round rank first Andrea Romanino with 72 votes, in second place Raffaella Ida Rumiati with 29 votes...
David Spergel, Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York, future president of the Simons Foundation, will be visiting SISSA in person, between May 24th, and May 28th, 2021. A builder and leading personality for modern Cosmology, Spergel research covers all aspects of physical processes from the very early universe to the Formation of Structures...
SISSA offers 2 fellowships in the framework of an "Advanced Training Programme" leading to a fast track PhD in connection with the Inter-University Master course in Physics jointly delivered by the Universities of Trieste and Udine...
The pandemic situation we are living in has proved how complex the processes behind science communication are. Therefore, today more than ever, it is crucial to create opportunities for gathering and debate between scholars and professionals in the sector. In this spirit,...
Record of applications, almost 1300 from 92 different countries, for the 2021 edition of the "MaX School on Advanced Materials and Molecular Modelling" with the Quantum ESPRESSO software. The school is organized by SISSA, ICTP and...
Are you empathic, generous and altruistic? In short, do you possess that specific personality trait defined as agreeableness in the language of psychologists? New research from SISSA recently published in the journal NeuroImage sheds light on...
SISSA played a crucial role in the transfer of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)'s Central Secretariat, which will be complited by the end of 2021...
May 12 is the International Women in Mathematics Day. The day is in honor of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and only woman to win the Fields Medal. As part of the events related to this important day, SISSA Math area organizes two initiatives...
ByAxon, an EU FETOPEN funded project including SISSA Neuron Physiology and Technology Lab as one of key partners, is now on the platform of EU Innovation Radar, a European Commission initiative aiming to identify High potential innovators and innovations in EU-funded research projects...
The first vote for the election of the new SISSA Director closed on 5 May at 4.30 pm . The neuroscientist Raffaella Ida Rumiati and the theoretical physicist Andrea Romanino are the candidates who compete for the mandate...
This year the European Research Council (ERC) has reached an important milestone: 10000 top researchers have been given the opportunity to translate their ambitious ideas into concrete research projects thanks to ERC funding. To celebrate this achievement, on 6 May 2021...
The 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry, likely the most prestigious science prize in the USA, has been bestowed on Roberto Car and Michele Parrinello by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, for the groundbreaking work on molecular simulation they did at SISSA...
Science books, documentaries, theater, workshops and much more. The full programme of the coming edition of Scienza e virgola will be presented on Tuesday 25 May at Antico Caffè e Libreria San Marco in a press conference with the artistic Director Paolo Giordano...
In the program, among other things, on 26 May, a dialogue between Paolo Giordano and the English writer Angela Saini on discrimination in science; on 28 May the show “Stelle cadenti” will address the theme of artificial mega-constellations and their impact on the night sky...
Enrollments are now open for the eighth edition of the specialization course “Master in High Performance Computing” (MHPC) co-organized by the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).
MHPC is an innovative advanced training program with the aim of training a new class of professionals able to exploit and manage the powerful, complex and modern technologies underlying HPC.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed among SISSA, University of Trieste, University of Udine, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), MIB Trieste School of Management and Generali to create...
The second issue of the SISSA Newsletter is online with seven pieces of news about our community.
In this issue we talk about Job opportunites for PhDs, postdocs and Alumni, a SISSA SUMMER FESTIVAL's preview, stronger psychological support for the student community, a new "Read and Publish" agreement... and much more! To read it click on this!