SISSA Lectures & Colloquia 2025

1 January 2024

The 2025 Calendar and archive of Lectures and Colloquia

Monday October 20th 2025, 14:00
Similarities and differences of human and rodent neocortical synapses, neurons and networks
Gabor Tamas - Research Group for Cortical Microcircuits, University of Szeged, Hungary
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA
Monday June 9th 2025, 14:00
The Quadratic Formula Revisited
Bernd Strumfels - Max Planck Institute Liepzig and UC Berkeley
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA
Tuesday Feb 11th 2025, 11:00
Scientific Machine Learning: when Fundamental Sciences meet Artificial Intelligence
Alfio Quarteroni - Politecnico di Milano and EPFL
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA

Wednesday June 12th 2024, 17:00
Sciama SISSA Colloquium - Black Hole Thermodynamics, Then and Now
Edward Witten - Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA
Thursday May 9th 2024, 15:00
Linking development to degeneration: the curious case of the Amyloid Precursor Protein
Bassem Hassan - Paris Brain Institute, ICM
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA
Wednesday April 10th 2024, 16:30
The synergy between perturbative methods and machine learning techniques in Celestial Mechanics
Alessandra Celletti - Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Aula Magna Budinich, SISSA

The 2023 archive of Lectures and Colloquia at SISSA:

Wednesday Ottobre 18th 2023, 17:00
Sciama SISSA Colloquium
The story of pulsars, then and now
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Chancellor, University of Dundee, Scotland,
Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building
Tuesday October 3rd 2023, 15:00
Astroglia in ageing and neurodegeneration
Alexei Verkhratsky - Professor of Neurophysiology, University of Manchester
Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building
Thursday February 23rd 2023, 16:30
Universality, fractality and a new morphological syntax for the cerebral cortex
Bruno Mota, Instituto de Física - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building

Tuesday May 9th 2023, 16:00
Large Random Matrices and beyond
Alice Guionnet, Director of Research, ENS de Lyon
Room 128-129, SISSA Main Building
Wednesday April 12th 2023, 16:00
On some variational problems involving functions with bounded Hessian
Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP
Monday January 30th 2023, 16:00
The Physics of Catalysis
Michele Parrinello, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova
Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP

Wednesday October 19th 2022 - 17:00
Sciama SISSA Colloquium
Gravitation and the Quantum Vacuum
Theodor Jacobson, University of Maryland
Aula 128-129, SISSA (in person)
Friday September 23rd 2022 - 15:00
Quantum computing for applications in physics and chemistry
Ivano Tavernelli, IBM Quantum, IBM Research
Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP (in person)
Tuesday June 14th 2022 - 16:00
Quantum entanglement at all distances
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Budinich Lecture Hall, ICTP (in person)

The 2020-2021 archive of Lectures and Colloquia at SISSA:

Wednesday November 24th 2021 - 16:00
Probing the synaptic plasticity theory of memory
Antonino Cattaneo, European Brain Research Institute & Scuola Normale Superiore
Watch the webinar
Thursday 10 June 2021 - 16:00
The Schrödinger equations as inspiration of beautiful mathematics.
Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Watch the webinar
Tuesday 25 May 2021 - 16:00
New Avenues for Cosmology in The New Decade
David Spergel, Flatiron Institue & Princeton University, USA
Watch the webinar
Thursday 13 May 2021 - 16:00 - Joint SISSA-ICTP Colloquia
Riccardo Sabatini, Orionis Biosciences, USA
Wednesday 17 March 2021 - 16:00 - Joint SISSA-ICTP Colloquia
Integration by localisation in finite and infinite dimensions
Anton Alexeev, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Monday 22 February 2021 - 14:30 - Boltzmann Lecture 2021
Thermodynamic concepts out of equilibrium: from classical to quantum
Prof. Leticia Cugliandolo, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies Sorbonne Université, Paris and Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
Watch the webinar

Joint ICTP-SISSA Colloquia 2020

Wednesday 14 October - 16:00, Zoom webinar
A Random Walk Through Physics To The Nobel Prize
John Michael Kosterlitz, Brown University, USA
Watch the webinar
Thursday 2 July 2020 - 16:00, Zoom webinar
Generic regularity in obstacle problems
Alessio Figalli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Wednesday 3 June - 16:00, Zoom webinar
The Stochastic Thermodynamics of Computation
David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute, USA
Watch the webinar
Wednesday 13 May - 16:00, Zoom webinar
Digital Herd Immunity and COVID-19
Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton University, USA
Watch the webinar
Wednesday 6 May - 15:00, Zoom webinar
Computational Epidemiology at the time of COVID-19
Alex Vespignani, Northeastern University, USA
Watch the webinar
Friday 24 April - 14:00, Zoom webinar
Epidemic control of COVID-19 through instantaneous contact tracing: the case for a mobile app-based solution
Luca Ferretti, Big Data Institute, Oxford (UK)
Watch the webinar

SISSA Colloquia 2020

Tuesday 12 November 2020
Partitions, polynomials and generating functions
Ragni Piene, University of Oslo, Norway
Wednesday 1 July 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
Universality and Structures in Natural Language and DNA Sequences (no smoothie, please)
Mirko Degli Espositi, Università di Bologna, Italy
Monday 27 January 2020 - 18:00, SISSA, "P. Budinich" Main Lecture Hall
Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Barry Barish, Caltech and UC Riverside, USA

SISSA Colloquia are organised also thanks to the active participation of its PhD students, who are now represented in the Colloquia Committee.

Plenary Scientific Lectures 2020

Thursday 2 July 2020 - 14:00, Zoom Webinar
The Neurobiology of Long-Term Memory: Key Molecules, Diverse Cell Types, Temporal Dynamics, and Critical Periods
Cristina Maria Alberini, New York University, US
Monday 29 June 2020 - 10:00, Zoom Webinar
Don't average! Learning from fluctuations in diffusive processes
Ralf Metzler, University of Potsdam (Germany) and University of Edinburgh (UK)
Monday 15 June 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
Themes and Motifs in Theoretical High Energy Physics
Alberto Lerda, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Wednesday 6 May 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
From inelastic X-ray scattering to neuroscience
Giancarlo Ruocco, IIT and Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Thursday 30 April 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
Synthetic Quantum Matter
Rosario Fazio, ICTP and Università Federico II, Italy
Tuesday 28 April 2020 - 10:00, Zoom webinar
Pattern Formation Through Spatial Segregation
Susanna Terracini, University of Torino, Italy

Special Lectures 2020

Thursday 20 February 2020 - 14:30, SISSA, Room 128-129
Boltzmann Lecture | Hydrodynamics of integrable many-body systems
Herbert Spohn, Technical University Munich, Germany