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...
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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...
To celebrate the International Women and Girls in Science Day 2018 and to join forces to build an inclusive scientific community, ICTP, Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and SISSA are organizing two events scheduled on 7 and 9 February 2018.
It was like finding the laws that govern the movement of planets inside a pond. Because that is where Euglena gracilis lives, a unicellular organism, which has allowed a group of scientists of mathLab and of Sensing and Moving Bioinspired Artifacts laboratory (SAMBA) at SISSA, in association with the National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics – OGS, to rebuild the motion in three dimensions of single cells, using a very original approach, which looks to Space.
It is with great pleasure that we announce that the new SISSA website is online. This is the fruit of a participatory process which involved the School’s personnel through its delegates. They have all been working with passion to achieve such a high level result. The website, developed by Sissa Medialab, has been renewed in the graphics and presents a new organization, which makes it more user friendly and clearer. We would like to thank all the people who contributed to this important result, in particular Isabella Brumati and Andrea Delise who supervised the project.
Great success for SISSA (International Advanced Studies Institute) in the selection of the 180 best university departments in Italy which will receive valuable funding to strengthen the quality of research in Italian academia.
It is the less known member of the nucleic acid family, superseded in popularity by its cousin DNA. And yet RNA, or ribonucleic acid, plays an essential role in many biological processes: not only as messenger molecule with the task of transmitting genetic information from the nucleus to the cytoplasm for protein production, but also as protagonist of different and significantly important cellular mechanisms.
Time maps, reading patterns, innovative numerical methods in fluidodynamics. These are the topics of the research projects led by Domenica Bueti, Davide Crepaldi and Gianluigi Rozza at SISSA that were just awarded by FARE – Framework per l’Attrazione e il Rafforzamento delle Eccellenze per la Ricerca in Italia. These fundings represent vital additional supports for ERC - European Research Council grant holders based in Italy. Three out of fifty projects awarded are carried out at SISSA: two in neuroscience, one in mathematics, for a total budget of 640,000 Euros.
“The world is our lab” is the title of the seminar held at the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA of Trieste by Alessandro Curioni, director of IBM Research - Zurich and vice-Chairman of IBM Europe. This recent meeting launched the collaboration between SISSA and IBM. Local scientific institutions such as the University of Trieste, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park, ICTP, OGS Trieste also participated in the round table organised during the event.
The next Sciama Memorial Lecture will take place on 13 December 2017 at 5 p.m. at SISSA's Aula Magna Paolo Budinich. The event will be a "Special SISSA Colloquium" to commemorate the great theoretical astrophysicist Dennis Sciama. This year the seminar, entitled "How the green light was given for the gravitational wave search", will be given by Pawel Nurowski from Center for Theoretical Physics, Warsaw.
A two-day joint meeting between SISSA and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon started in Lyon, yesterday, 5 December 2017. "ENS de Lyon meets SISSA" is devoted to explore recent trends at the interface between Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics. Among the participants: Pasquale Calabrese, SISSA professor in statistical physics recently awarded with a Consolidator Grant by European Research Council; Étienne Ghys, currently a CNRS "directeur de recherche" at the École normale supérieure in Lyon and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.