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SISSA Colloquium - The adolescent brain and mind - Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

We are pleased to invite you to the SISSA Colloquium "The adolescent brain and mind", a special lecture with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore from the University of Cambridge, UK.The colloquium is ...
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Reflective walks between the Karst and the sea: a new programme for wellbeing

From the Karst to the Sea 2.0” is set to begin in May. The initiative is part of the PRO-BENE-COMUNE project and focuses on promoting wellbeing within the university community.Running from 16 May to 3 ...
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Ariel S. Boiardi receives the AIMETA GMA award for best PhD thesis in Mechanics of Materials

SISSA alumnus Ariel Surya Boiardi has received the Award for the best PhD thesis in Mechanics of Materials, presented by the Mechanics of Materials Group (GMA) of the Italian Association of ...
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Ammissione ai corsi di PhD della SISSA per l'Anno Accademico 2025/26 - Admission to SISSA PhD courses for the Academic Year 2025/26

Extra EU candidates are welcome to applyCheck the Information Sheets below for additional information on the examsCLICK HERE FOR ONLINE APPLICATIONSMATHEMATICS AREA - CLOSEDGeometry and Mathematical ...
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Oxigen under pressure: Experimentally confirmed the theory of the epsilon₀ and epsilon₁ phases

"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, ...
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Selection for the conferment of a PhD fellowship funded by the project HORIZON MSCA-2024 Doctoral Networks - Decoding and designing biomolecular systems with hybrid DNA:RNA ...

This PhD project has a planned duration of 48 months, including the 36 months funded under the BioHYBRITE (MSCA Doctoral Networks) action plus an additional 12 months of SISSA fellowship. The project ...
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Rat Vision: A Lesson for Artificial Intelligence

Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience ...
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SISSA and Fondazione Pietro Pittini award the winners of the 2025 Ambrosetti Medal

This morning, SISSA hosted the ceremony for the presentation of the 2025 Antonio Ambrosetti Medal. Established in memory of Professor Antonio Ambrosetti (1944–2020), the prestigious award recognises ...
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Magnetic fields in the infant Universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the Universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons ...
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Scientific Secretariat - Info

After collecting the products package, we ask you to communicate us the conformity of the products sending an e-mail to click to show email in case of equipment, we also ask you to communicate us the ...
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Within a Second After the Big Bang: The Birth of the First Black Holes, Boson Stars, and Cannibal Stars

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, these halos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson ...
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Erasmus+ Students

The European Commission awarded SISSA with the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the whole period of the Erasmus + Programme. Erasmus Policy Statement SISSA, through the Erasmus+ programme, ...