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...
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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!
Matter has memory, too. For example, a crumpled nickel-titanium paperclip spontaneously reconfigures into its remembered shape upon heating. Hypothesizing that memory dynamics in non-living systems might have more in common with brain memory than meets the eye, a new research project...
The Medal is awarded by SISSA with the support of Scuola Normale Superiore, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI). It will recognize exceptionally promising young researchers who have already made outstanding contributions to the field of Nonliner Analysis...
More than 94% of those who gained the “Franco Prattico” Master’s Degree in Science Communication (MCS) from SISSA in the decade 2009/2019 are currently employed. This is one of the most significant results of a survey of the employment rate...
SiSSA Director is one of the guests of the Rome Science Festival presenting the project by SISSA and MIT "NV centres for the test of the Quantum Jarziynski Equality (NVQJE)" together with Professor Paola Cappellaro ...
All 27 EU Member States and the EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth have signed the Bonn Declaration on Freedom of Scientific Research. In this way, they show their support for a diverse, creative and independent research landscape...
The Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) has officially launched the new National Research Programme (PNR). The document shapes research policy in Italy and...
The work by SISSA and CNR-IOM was part of a large international collaboration whose results have just been published in "Science Advances’"...
What is SISSA for you? From the answers of the whole community to this question, three key messages that describe our School have emerged. SISSA IS... unlocking the mysteries of universe and mind, where geek means cool, the Big Bang of knowledge...
One year after the beginning of the pandemic, SISSA people gather together virtually to celebrate the new academic year and look ahead. The ceremony will focus on the new work programme of the European Research Council (ERC) and the future perspectives for the scientific world...
It seems that Dante's verses have other qualities that tend to impress them on the memory even if the meter is disrupted: a group of SISSA neuroscientists has focused on two of the most famous works of Italian literature to quantify the effect on the memory of the three principal components of poetic meter ...
The School established two scholarships, awarding two students who highlighted some of the complexities of pandemic management