Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

"History of Science in Public: Methods, Formats, Training" at SISSA

How do we communicate the history of science? And which methods, formats and practices work best for doing so effectively? On 8 and 9 October at SISSA in Trieste, historians and science communicators ...
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Research fellowship on Diffusion posterior sampling for cosmological field-level inference

Enjoy civil and political rights have no criminal convictions and not be subject to any preventive measures, civil decisions or administrative measures.
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Research fellowship on Neuroni sensoriali, calcium dynamics e infiammazione: interazione in modelli in vitro

Enjoy civil and political rights have no criminal convictions and not be subject to any preventive measures, civil decisions or administrative measures. Be aware that they are not subject to criminal ...
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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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A new twist in a tangled story

Long polymer chains are everywhere: in synthetic materials, soft matter, biological systems such as chromosomes, and mathematical models of filaments and knots. When many such chains are densely ...
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Ammissione ai corsi di PhD della SISSA per l'Anno Accademico 2026/27 - Admission to SISSA PhD courses for the Academic Year 2026/27

3 Fellowships financed by FSE + (1 fellowship still available for the second session) ...
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SISSA: €1.2 million ERC Grant for physicist Gabriel Cuomo to explore new frontiers of physics

Gabriel Francisco Cuomo, a physicist at SISSA, has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth €1.2 million for his theoretical physics project, Extended Probes in Quantum Field Theory: from Impurities ...
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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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Healthy ageing: Training the Mind and Emotional Skills Helps Keep the Brain Healthy

Education, intellectually stimulating work, and an active lifestyle help preserve cognitive abilities in adults over 65, leading to more effective verbal expression and stronger cognitive performance.
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The World’s Highest Honor in Computational Physics Awarded to Stefano Baroni

The American Physical Society (APS) – the world’s largest organization of physicists – has awarded the 2026 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics to Stefano Baroni, Professor of Condensed ...
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Simons Observatory’s Large Aperture Telescope Achieves First Light: A New Window on the Early Universe

The Simons Observatory (SO), a most advanced network of telescopes aimed at mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) with unprecedented precision, has reached a major milestone: the Large ...
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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 ...