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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 ...

How do people affected by pathological gambling tell their story? What information can we extract from their narratives? For the first time, a study conducted by SISSA and by the University of Roma Tre has analysed in detail the words...

The next SISSA Colloquia will be held on Thursday, November 12 at 16:00 with a talk by Ragni Piene, mathematician at the University of Oslo specializing in Algebraic Geometry

The 2020 edition of SISSA Orientation Day will take place on 13 November from 9am till 1pm via Zoom platform. It is an important moment to learn about School's services and resources. In order to facilitate the participation, all the lectures scheduled are suspended ...
 

Taking advantage of the reduced number of working days in the next week for the San Giusto celebrations, SISSA will therefore implement restriction of access from 2/11 to 8/11, in order to greatly reduce the possibility of potential contacts, thus easing the pressure on the School, on the tracing and allowing more in-depth sanitization procedures.

The most important Italian festival dedicated to science fiction and all the declinations of fantasy gives you appointment from Thursday 29 until Tuesday, November 3 for the first time online in the virtual room of Mymovies.

Opening the festival on the web on Thursday 29 October will be the film Skylin3s by Liam O'Donnell, the third chapter of the successful sci-fi saga, the first Italian preview at 20.00 on the platform of the festival. 

A simple flowchart of how the tracing process workes for suspected cases of COVID-19 at SISSA

A test to diagnose two very serious diseases such as ALS and FTD when the pathologies have not yet appeared: A team of researchers at SISSA in association with different clinical and Italian research institutes have made a first promising step in this direction...

Moving around in the half-light is difficult but not impossible. To help us in this undertaking we have the rods, a type of light-sensitive cells (photoreceptors) present in the retina of vertebrates ...

Pursuing the safety policy for the management of Phase 3 and continuing in managing safety issues but also those related to work/life balance, it is necessary to provide the entire SISSA community with indications for possible cases related to health situations also connected to family life.

As you know, due to a worsening of the national health situation, new measures have been implemented by the Italian government; these measures have only a minor impact on our activity (with the exception of the ban on meetings in presence.
 

The MIT-FVG Project, financed with FVG Region funding, promoting scientific collaborations between MIT faculty and scientists and their counterparts at SISSA, at the University of Udine and at the University of Trieste, has opened its 2020-2021 MISTI's Global Seed Funds call for proposals.