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The inaugural ceremony will take place starting at 11:00 a.m. in the “Paolo Budinich” Main Lecture Hall. The event will open with institutional greetings and a welcome address by SISSA Director Andrea Romanino. This will be followed by remarks from representatives of the SISSA community...
Reflecting on the spread of generative artificial intelligence technologies, analyzing their opportunities, challenges and ethical and regulatory implications. This is the goal of the Artificial Intelligence Forum, a festival dedicated to AI organized by the Municipality of Tavagnacco and DITEDI, in collaboration with SISSA. The School participates with two round tables on innovation and a conversation between Gianluigi Rozza and Amalia Ercoli Finzi...
SISSA Colloquium returns on Monday, October  20th, at 2 PM in Aula Magna Budinich with Professor Gábor Tamás (University of Szeged, Hungary)
What are the elements and resources that make a quantum computer so advantageous compared to traditional computers? A new study published in PRX Quantum by Alessio Paviglianiti, Guglielmo Lami, Mario Collura, and Alessandro Silva from SISSA has sought to answer this question...
The initiative “Da Miramare al Cosmo” returns for its second edition, featuring four public science outreach events on a range of research topics. The series is organised by the Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe (IFPU) in collaboration with Miramare Castle and supported by SISSA Medialab...
JobFair, the traditional job meeting of the Italian Schools of Excellence, will take place on 22 and 23 October 2025 at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa...
From digital twins to aging, from quantum mechanics to psychoanalysis: once again, SISSA is participating in Trieste Next and European Researchers' Night, with interactive activities and debates on its research and initiatives. From September 26 to 28...
A new study from SISSA, led by Antonello Mallamaci and published in Neural Regeneration Research, shows that a substantial portion of mammalian transcription factors can physically interact with proteins involved in downstream steps of gene expression....
Professor of Numerical Analysis and coordinator of mathLab, he will head one of the main scientific bodies in our country at the intersection of research, technology, and industry
This has been established by a new piece of research published in Physical Review Letters, based on 250,000 simulations and confirmed by observations. The cosmic web still carries traces of their existence. The study was conducted by an international team led by SISSA in Trieste...
SISSA, through the Comitato Unico di Garanzia (CUG) and as part of the PRO-BEN project promoted by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), organizes two meetings with science journalist Silvia Bencivelli, a public event and a reserved one...
From artificial intelligence to big data, from digital twins to high-performance computing: these are some of the central topics of the 2025 edition of the biennial conference of the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics...
Plectonemes are DNA supercoils that can form when the molecule passes through extremely narrow channels. This is the conclusion of a study published in Physical Review X, which offers new perspectives for studying genome organization...
It won’t be long before we know whether we are right or wrong,” remarked Professor Erio Tosatti when, in 2014, PNAS published a study by SISSA/ICTP carried out with Michele Fabrizio, Sandro Scandolo, and first author Yanier Crespo. Just over ten years later, experimental evidence has confirmed that theoretical study...
Naomi Oreskes, renowned historian of science and author of the influential book Merchants of Doubt, will be among the keynote speakers at the 14th National Conference on Science Communication, taking place at SISSA from 2 to 5 December 2025...
A unique training opportunity for early-career researchers to become experts in FAIR data management. Apply by 20 August 2025
By comparing two species of deer mice, researchers discovered that this “neural switch” has been fine-tuned by evolution according to the animal’s habitat, increasing its chances of survival. The study’s first co-author is Katja Reinhard, a scientist at SISSA...
SISSA mourns the passing of Edoardo Boncinelli, eminent geneticist, passionate science communicator and former Director of the School from 2001 to 2004...
Topological materials can display local behaviours similar to those observed in water turning into ice or metals becoming magnetised. This is the central finding of a new study published in Physical Review Letters and led by Antimo Marrazzo from SISSA...
We are pleased to announce that Francesco Benini, Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Frontiers of Science Award in Physics for his article “Black Holes in 4D 𝒩=4 Super-Yang-Mills Field Theory”, co-authored with SISSA alumna Elisa Milan, published in Physical Review X in 2018...