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Enrollments are now open for the eleventh 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. 

Watch this special documentary film, produced as part of the Bid4Best programme, on the efforts to uncover the physics of black hole formation and galaxy evolution
Led by ESA, with the participation of NASA and national space agencies, the mission has been made possible by an international consortium of scientists, the LISA Consortium, which also includes researchers at SISSA.
On 17th January 2024, from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., SISSA will host iNEST Meet&Drink, a networking session followed by a happy hour tailored for doctoral students and researchers...
The mini-halos of dark matter scattered throughout the Cosmos could function as highly sensitive probes of primordial magnetic fields. This is what emerges from a theoretical study conducted by SISSA and published in Physical Review Letters...

Since the set up of the European Research Council in 2007, SISSA has secured 30 ERC grants, thus ranking among the top host institutions in Italy, especially with respect to the small faculty size...

All the upcoming Special Lectures and Colloquia organized by SISSA in 2024

A new model shows how a small "noise" originating from the formation of the cosmic web could explain the accelerated expansion of the Universe...
From Monday, December 18th to Friday, December 22nd, at 9:45 AM, BBC 4 will dedicate five episodes to reading excerpts from the book by SISSA professor Roberto Trotta...
The medal recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, Professor at SISSA from 1993 to 2019

SISSA Medialab is pleased to invite the SISSA community to take part in a discussion game on the theme of open access. The Discussion Game will take place on Tuesday, December 12th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the Big Meeting Room...

The Trieste Film Festival returns for its 35th edition from 19 to 27 January 2024 and there is a special promotion for the SISSA community...

On Thursday 14 December, at 8.30 p.m., the Miela theatre in Trieste will stage the play J. Robert Oppenheimer by Giuseppe Mussardo, theatrical adaptation by Gioia Battista...

The prize, in its first edition, was established by the Italian Institute of Technology - IIT to honor the memory of Argentine researcher Pedro Lagomarsino de Leon Roig who passed away prematurely in 2021...

Elena Barosso is the winner of the scholarship offered by the Pezcoller Foundation to the winner of the selection for admission to SISSA's 'Franco Prattico' Master's in Science Communication for the 2023-24 academic year...

His project, titled ‘Generating unstable dynamics in dispersive Hamiltonian fluids’ (GUnDHam), aims to demonstrate the emergence of instability phenomena in certain dispersive Hamiltonian equations governing the dynamics of fluids...

Friday, November 24th, from 14:15 to 17:00, in the Big Meeting Room, 2023 Ambrosetti Medal ceremony will take place. This award is given to young researchers the field of nonlinear analysis.

The 2023 Medal will be awarded to Alessandro Carlotto of the University of Trento and Javier Gomez-Serrano of Brown University, during the congress '50 years of mountain pass theorem', which is being held from November 23rd to Novemeber 25th.

To electronic journal owned by SISSA and IOP publishing, managed and published by SISSA Medialab, is now presenting a Special Issue with a selection of articles published throughout its history.
 

The Orientation Day is back on Friday 17th November from 9.30 am till 1 pm in Room 128-129, first floor...

An AI-based study  has shown that rats have a small number of neurons that are able to process visual stimuli in a very sophisticated manner, enabling these animals to perceive direction correctly. The research has been published in Science Advances...