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Two billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe was still very young. However, thousands of huge galaxies, rich in stars and dust, were already formed. An international study, led by SISSA, now explains how this was possible...

A fascinating substance with unique properties, ice has intrigued humans since time immemorial. Unlike most other materials, ice at very low temperature is not as ordered as it could be. A collaboration between SISSA, ICTP and the Institute of Physics Rosario...

Graduated in law, he obtained a master's degree in "University and Research Management" at the SUM (School of Management for Universities and Research Institutions) of the Politecnico di Milano and a specialization in Public Administration Studies at the Spisa of the University of Bologna ...

On Friday 18 December Pietro Greco left us suddenly. His collaboration with SISSA was long and important. It started almost thirty years ago as Pietro was one of the founders of the Master's Course in Science Communication...

SISSA supports the plea sent by the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI) to the Egyptian authorities for the release of Patrick George Zaki and his return "at home with his family, where he could also recover from physical suffering after many months of detention". 
 

After 8 years the Secretary General Gabriele Rizzetto leaves his position at SISSA. In these years, we have all worked together to make our community stronger and more cohesive and to pursue those results that make our School a point of refernce...

In his work, Professor Crepaldi investigates different aspects of reading. For example, how can we be so good at reading even though we have no biological predisposition to do so: “We do not realise it but we are incredibly fast and accurate readers...

A global survey conducted in more than forty countries around the world provides the most important evidence of the connection between COVID-19 and the loss of smell, taste and so-called chemesthesis...

SISSA 2020 Christmas Lecture will take place on 16 December at 10.30.  Chiara Valerio will hold a speech entitled “La testa e la croce, il linguaggio simbolico e la cinematica” (the head and the cross, symbolic language and kinematics) ...

Despite Conventional wisdom suggests that black holes are fully characterized by just two quantities, mass and spin, for several years physicists have been investigating whether black holes can have additional structures, in jargon "hair" ...

Are you a master student interested in Mathematics? Join SISSA Junior Math Days. The event is aimed at encouraging university students to consider continuing their studies to a PhD level in mathematics and to make them aware of the teaching and research offers of SISSA PhD programs ...

SISSA Director Stefano Ruffo has signed a letter addressed to Iranian authorities aimed at halting Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali’s execution and demanding his release. The same petition has been underwritten by CRUI President Ferruccio Resta...

Antonio Ambrosetti, world-class mathematician and professor at Normale and SISSA, died on Friday 20 November at the age of 75 in Venice

Tuesday, November 24 at 17:30 on the platform Zoom will be held a study seminar by Sissa - International Advanced Studies School of Trieste and Ilas - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Natural Sciences and Humanities titled "Pontifical Academies and the Science of the Holy See". Guests of the meeting will be Mons. Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and Mons. Lucio Ruiz, Secretary of the Dicastery for Communication. Prof. Lorenzo Magarelli, Professor of Fundamental Theology - Faculty of Theology of Triveneto and Episcopal delegate for the University Pastoral, will be the moderator
 

The School is ranked fourth in the report comparing the best global universities. According to the U.S News and World Report "2021 Best Global Universities Rankings" SISSA confirms its excellence ...

The Bologna Process is the important harmonisation process of the various European higher education systems that gave rise to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)...

Since Sunday, November 15, Friuli Venezia Giulia has become part of the orange zone with some further restrictions to the movement. A new digital access recording system is introduced in SISSA

A new theory developed by scientists at SISSA has succeeded in establishing a new relationship between the presence or absence of “handles” in the space of the arrangements of atoms and molecules that make up a material, and the propensity of the latter to conduct electricity...

According to the study published in Physical Review Letters, in bad metals the electrons would transform into new “objects”, with an unprecedented character that would allow them to pair up and thereby superconduct the current...

The Virtual Fair is the online Career Day organized by Borsa del Placement that will allow you to have job interviews with companies interested in your profile. Over 40 companies will participate ...