A team of researchers from SISSA and OGS in Trieste, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, and UPC in Barcelona show that a specific body deformation called metaboly allows Euglena to crawl remarkably fast in narrow spaces. This feature could be a source of inspiration...
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How do we perceive time? Why do plants take on specific shapes? What is machine learning? These are just some of the questions that SISSA researchers will answer on Wednesday 20 February during the Student Day. The Institute will open the doors to hundreds of students...
“HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future” is the event promoted by SISSA and ICTP's Master in High Performance Computing, which will take place at SISSA on Friday 15 February 2019, from 2 pm
On Wednesday 20 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by physicist Paul Fendley entitled “Between Order and Disorder”. The event will take place in room 128-129 at 2.30 pm...
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019 and to join forces to build an inclusive scientific community, ICTP, OWSD and SISSA, in collaboration with Soroptimist Trieste, are organizing an event scheduled on 8 February 2019...
SISSA is proud to support the presence of Italian and foreign scientists of renown scientific and cultural level as well as refugee scientists as visiting professors. Through the programme for collaborations of excellence...
The Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, in collaboration with SISSA, Trieste and Udine universities, promotes the scientific system and the support for vocational education and training through the organisation of an event aimed at presenting the projects funded...
On Wednesday 16 January a talk by Itamar Procaccia of the Weizmann Institute of Science on the physical origin of mechanical failure of amorphous media closes the series of 2018 SISSA Colloquia...
A series of Lectures and Colloquia are planned for the coming months at SISSA also thanks to the active participation of its PhD students, who are now for the first time represented in the Colloquia Committee...
Are you a scientist, a researcher, a student? Are you good at communicating? The Trieste edition of FameLab 2019 is what you are looking for! FameLab is the international competition challenging young scientists with a talent for communication to tell in 3 minutes...
On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary, the School is pleased to announce the foundation of the SISSA Alumni Society. It is open to all former SISSA students who have completed a PhD course, obtained a MPhil degree, or attended a Master’s degree...
On World Human Rights Day, major Italian experts in the field will gather in Gorizia to discuss “The value of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in International Law”...
The event, which will take place at the foyer of SISSA Aula Magna Paolo Budinich from 6 pm, will present the work of playwrights Marco Di Stefano and Chiara Boscaro. Actresses Ariella Reggio and Marcela Serli, together with theatre expert Roberto Canziani, will take part in the event...
How does heat propagate in media? What is the difference between pizza baking in the traditional wood oven and in the electric one? These are some of the questions that will be addressed by physicist Andrey Varlamov on Wednesday 12 December at 4 pm...
Marcello Dalmonte is an expert in quantum information, who works at ICTP and regularly collaborates with SISSA. Dalmonte will be among those responsible for a crucial project to make one of the five research pillars of the European flagship tangible: quantum simulation...
Vision is flexible, and continuously adapts with experience, molding cortical circuitry to analyze optimally incoming information. On Wednesday 5 December, Maria Concetta Morrone of University of Pisa...
How well can cerebral functions explain our normal and pathological behaviours? How are scientific findings changing our idea of mental disorders and, thus, the clinical practice? These are some of the issues that will be addressed, focusing on addictive disorders, on 3-5 December...
A passionate defence of intellectual freedom is at the centre of the speech given by Paolo Giordano, Premio Strega winner with a past as physicist, during SISSA Opening Ceremony 2018. By courtesy of the author you can find here the full text...
The talk will be based on the research conducted by David N. Schwartz in preparation of his biography of Enrico Fermi, "The last man who knew everything", recently published in Italian by Solferino Editore and entitled "Enrico Fermi. L'ultimo uomo che sapeva tutto"...
SISSA celebrates the start of the new academic year and its 40th Anniversary with all staff and scholars. This event will be the occasion to welcome the new students and launch the Alumni Society...