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Yesterday afternoon the candidate Chiara di Paolo has successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis in Astrophysics and Cosmology via a fully on-line session.

In particular, Chiara, her supervisor Prof. P. Salucci, the two external examiners Prof. F. Nesti and A. Burkert, the SISSA committee and the rest of the audience (including some other SISSA students) were all remotely connected via web from their own home using a communication software among those currently adopted by SISSA for ensuring the continuation of team research work.

Dear all, yesterday evening, in a sometimes dramatic speech, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced new and further measures to limit the spread of coronavirus infection in the Country...

SISSA is an institution of scientific excellence and, at a time that we cannot hesitate to call serious, we can only reaffirm our total confidence in the science and community of epidemiologists, doctors and nurses at the forefront of coping with the virus in recent weeks and days. In regards to the new dispositions defined by the Governmental decree approved Monday 9, extending “reinforced containment” areas to all Italy, SISSA policies are as follows:

Following the approval of the new government decree and the ordinance of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region both promulgated on March 1, 2020, the updates of the Sissa policies aimed at preventing the risk of Coronavirus and protecting individual and community health are communicated below.

Starting from tomorrow, March 3, 2020:

Following the worsening of the health situation in the FVG Region, the national and regional authorities are about to take new measures that will also affect the university system and therefore SISSA. The new provisions will not be known until late in the evening.

The International School for Advanced Studies (known as SISSA) seeks candidates for the position of Director of the School...

Roberto Innocente, computer technician of ITCS (Information Technology and Computing Services) passed away on January 30th 2020 in Trieste.

Latest updates from the task-force instituted by SISSA to face the COVID-19 emergency

• All students and trainees are prohibited from accessing SISSA; PIs are requested to take action for any remote activities
• All seminars, events and other recreational activities are suspended
• It is compulsory for all coming from risk areas to abstain from service for 14 days

From Monday 24 February 2020 to Sunday 1 March 2020, teaching activities are suspended.

The evolution of the situation related to the spread of Coronavirus infection recommends, prudently and in agreement and synergy with the other Universities of the Region and the Political and Governmental Authorities, the adoption of precautionary measures aimed at protecting public health and the smooth functioning of the institutional activities of all the three Universities of Friuli Venezia Giulia...

The Boris Dubrovin medal, in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, The Boris Dubrovin medal, in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, is acceping nominations for candidates...

SISSA Cognitive Neuroscience professor Jacques Mehler passed away in Paris on February 11 at the age of 83. Jacques Mehler was a key figure of the cognitive revolution in psychology in the 1960s and conducted foundational research on human cognition...

This year's Boltzmann Lecture will be held on Thursday, 20 February, featuring Herbert Spohn from Technical University Munich...

500 students, 50 activities envisaged, scores of researchers involved and themes that range from artificial intelligence to the mysteries of the Universe...

Novel nanotechnologies could be used as brain implants, modulating the activity of nerve cells electrochemically and treating neurological diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson’s...

The Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) organizes the 2nd edition of the event "HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future" to build a dialogue on the trends and needs of the HPC world...

Tosatti has been awarded “For his leading role in the establishment of high-level training and research activities in Condensed Matter Physics at ICTP, and for mentoring many capable young scientists from developing countries...

"PARSEC: stellar tracks and isochrones with the PAdova and TRieste Stellar Evolution Code" is the most cited Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’s paper of the last decade. This article, published in 2012...

Taking stock of the progress and laying the foundations for future collaborations. This is the twofold objective of the kick-off meeting of the Leonardo project, that will take place at SISSA on 29 and 30 January 2020...

The key of the extraordinary functionality of ribonucleic acid, better known as RNA, is a highly flexible and dynamic structure. Yet, the experimental characterisation of its different configurations is rather complex. A study conducted by SISSA and published in Nucleic Acids Research...