Thanks to the programme for collaborations of excellence, Luca Peliti, formerly professor of statistical mechanics at the University Federico II in Naples, has recently joined SISSA. From 20 April he will be teaching the course “Stochastic thermodynamics and thermodynamics of...
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From 11 to 19 April, the scientific book fair organised by SISSA Master's Course in Science Communication “Franco Prattico” and the City of Trieste returns to the bookshops of Trieste ...
SISSA offers 2 fellowships in the framework of an "Advanced Training Programme" leading to a fast track PhD in connection with the Inter-University Master course in Physics jointly delivered by the Universities of Trieste and Udine ...
Binge eating, as if the impulse of the moment could not be contrasted by a deeper thought, which would lead to maintaining a healthier eating behaviour. The results of a new study conducted by Damiano Terenzi, Raffaella Rumiati and Marilena Aiello...
On Wednesday 4 April, a lecture by Karen Vogtmann of Warwick University will open the series of appointments with SISSA Colloquia...
Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were deemed able to perform such complex operations as...
Tiny and very promising for possible applications in the field of nanoelectronics: they are the graphene nanoflakes studied by a SISSA’s team...
It is widely agreed that the nature of knowledge production in contemporary societies is changing, due especially to the so called phenomenon of marketisation in universities and other
public organisations. On 21 March, SISSA will be holding a panel discussion to...
Marcello Porta, Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Tübingen, has recently joined SISSA thanks to the programme for collaborations of excellence for research and education. During this month Porta will be involved in...
A new kind of computing is on the horizon, one that could revolutionize the way complex problems are solved. Quantum computing will be the main topic of a public roundtable hosted by ICTP and SISSA on March 14...
A new kind of star comes up from a study by SISSA’s postdoctoral researcher Raúl Carballo-Rubio. In a piece of research recently published in Physical Review Letters...
The campaign on energy saving "M'Illumino di meno " is being held again this year. This is the fourteenth edition of the initiative, created by the Radio2 programme "Caterpillar"...
Following the success of the Data Science Proposal for the “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza”, which got funded by MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), SISSA will host a first workshop along this new research direction on 26 and 27 February...
An original state, both solid and liquid at the same time: this is the latest news on a substance -water- so familiar to everyone but which appears to hold always fresh surprises for scientists. Its name is “superionic water”...
“Why 2+2 doesn’t always add up to 4”, “How is the brain formed?” up to "The Mathematics of Love". SISSA has put together a rich programme for the fourth edition of the Student Day. The event will take place on Wednesday 21 February...
As part of the celebration of the School’s 40th anniversary, SISSA is planning this year a series of Colloquia with outstanding scientists. These events are intended as a moment of interdisciplinary exchange and a way to reaffirm the sense of belonging to the community...
The Statistical Physics Group at SISSA will launch next week the Boltzmann Lecture, an event to celebrate the Austrian physicist on his birthday. An outstanding guest, the physicist Immanuel Bloch will start the initiative with the talk entitled...
How are raw sensory signals transformed into a brain representation of the world that surrounds us? The question was first posed over 100 years ago, but new experimental strategies make the challenge more exciting than ever. SISSA investigators have now uncovered the contributions...
The journal Physical Review E, published monthly by the American Physical Society, is celebrating this year its 25th anniversary. On this occasion, the members of the Editorial Board have selected a series of articles – one for each calendar year from 1993 to 2017 - that made...
As in a dense forest where billions of trees intertwine through their branches and trunks, billions of neurons cross our brain with their extensions, called dendrites and axons. What defines their morphology? What establishes how and to what amount they should develop? It is a...