From the 5th July to Autumn 2020, shows, workshops, conferences and science cafés, not only in Trieste but also in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region and online...
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The Italian Health Ministry announced new measures aimed at containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 virus ...
The EuroScience Open Forum, the largest pan-European event focusing on debate at the interface of science, technology, society and politics, will take place in Trieste from 2 to 6 September with a renewed program after the pandemic emergence. SISSA will be present at the forum...
Since the beginning of the epidemic, SISSA has always strived to keep its students and staff safe and prepared and using all the resources at our disposal. Among these, Immuni, the Italian contact tracing app, is a valuable tool that sadly has not been taken up as much as it should have. Every single user increases its overall effectiveness: we strongly recommend you to install Immuni and use it correctly.
By reconstructing on a small scale the physical processes that take place within ice giant planets, such as Uranus and Neptune, a new method of computer simulation allows to shed light on their present structure and past evolution...
The objective of the survey is to collect and measure subjective perception and awareness regarding the gender balance in science and technology...
The return to the classroom in the autumn for SISSA after the Coronavirus emergency aims to protect health and greater assistance.
SISSA Summer Festival reaches its fourth edition with a new collaboration with the Museo Storico e il Parco del Castello di Miramare. The theme of the Festival is artificial intelligence. In the wonderful setting of the Miramare Castle park, two shows that mix dramaturgy...
To fight viruses, cells can deploy defence enzymes that progressively destroy viral genome strands starting from one of the two strand ends. However, this degradation mechanism is not effective against epidemic viruses such as Zika. In fact, the defence enzyme jams at precise points...
“We thought we knew almost everything about photoreceptors, but we have proved that is not the case”. With these words, Vincent Torre, Professor of neurobiology of SISSA, comments the results of a new study that, thanks to a multidisciplinary approach and to the use of optical tweezers...
Paolo Bonicatto has been awarded the INdAM-UMI-SIMAI prize for the best PhD thesis in basic mathematics. His doctoral work, under the direction of prof.
Two promising researchers won the Dubrovin medal, established by SISSA in memory of the great mathematician Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, who was a professor at the School from 1993 until 2019 ...
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Arwu) of Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, SISSA ranks between the first and fourth place in Italy and between the 51st and 75th places in the world in mathematics...
SISSA has just released an annual scholarship in data journalism. Most of the funds come from the income of the book " Nel Contagio" (Einaudi 2020) by Paolo Giordano ...
SISSA, in the framework of the agreement signed with Chiesi Farmaceutici and National Research Council, announces a selection for the conferment of a fellowship to follow a PhD course in Theory and Numerical Simulation of the Condensed Matter ...
SISSA is a public institute that makes scientific excellence in research and training its distinctive feature. Supporting our activities means taking a step towards a better tomorrow. For all of us...
Applications to the initiative PHD4INNOVATING are open from 30th of June to 24th of July. The project, created on the occasion of ESOF2020, follows PHD4PMI, an experimental initiative of SISSA which aims to connect PhD and PostDoc students with Small and Medium Enterprises ...
At this difficult time, we believe it is important that SISSA community takes back control over the future of the School, in line with the innovative vision and the values that have always distinguished it; it is now time for us to rethink together...
The Field Medal Winner will give his ICTP-SISSA webinar on July 2nd at 4 PM. Alessio Figalli is professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich and Director of the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM)...
Lorenzo Piroli, who has received his PhD in Statistical Physics at SISSA and is currently a postdoc researcher at Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, has been just awarded the 2019 edition of “Sergio Fubini” Prize assigned by INFN ...