Budinich Main Lecture HallA talk by Roberta Sinatra of IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) on success in science and art as a way to testing our ability to measure and predict success. Sinatra will...
What makes high-performance computing (HPC) actually high-performing? Besides the large-scale computational problems and the resulting need for large-scale computing infrastructure, it is, or should d...
What is consciousness, and what is its neural substrate in the brain? Why does consciousness fade with dreamless sleep even though the brain remains active? Giulio Tononi, neuroscientist and psychiatr...
What is the difference between pizza baking in the wood oven and in the electric one? Why do boiled and grilled meat taste so different? A lecture by Andrey Varlamov of CNR, Rome, addressing these and...
A Colloquium by Maria Concetta Morrone of Pisa University and Fondazione Stella Maris IRCCS on visual plasticity in the newborn and in adult life and its implications for the development of retinal pr...
A Colloquium by Pedro Ferreira of Oxford University on the latest advances and the future challenges for the characterization of space-time.SISSA Colloquia are part of the celebration of the School's ...
Asimina Arvanitaki of the Perimeter Institute, Canada, will show how black holes or precision experiments may provide us with evidence on the presence of new physics.SISSA Colloquia are part of the ce...
A talk by Itamar Procaccia of the Weizmann Institute of Science on the mechanical failure of amorphous media, a ubiquitous phenomenon from material engineering to geology.This Colloquium is still part...
