Past news

Application deadline: March 2nd, 2026.

February 23rd 2026
M. Caselle

€2.4 million: that’s the amount awarded to Professor Pasquale Calabrese of SISSA through a European Research Council (ERC) grant for his new project, “MOSE – Monitoring Symmetries with Entanglement.”

Up to four 2-year postdoctoral appointments starting in autumn 2026.
Application deadline: January 4th, 2026.

Date: November 24th, 2025

A new study in Physical Review Letters reveals an unexpected connection in the behavior of these two particles.

Two papers authored by researchers from SISSA Statistical Physics area, in col…

Date: April 14th, 2025

Deadline: March 4, 2025

Stochastic Resetting – Satya Majumdar

Dates: June 30 – July 11, 2025. Extended deadline: February 14, 2025.

Deadline: January 20, 2025

The deadline for applications is January 4th, 2025

Date: November 14th, 2024

July 2024

Monday, May 13th, 2024

The deadline for applications is March 7th, 2023

F. Ferlaino

January 31th, 2024

Deadline: January 6th, 2024

Monday 23rd October 2023

Lorenzo Piroli wins the ERC Starting Grant

Two SISSA alumnae selected for the workshop.

“SISSA researchers led by Pasquale Calabrese, find a quantum version of …”

Tuesday, 14th Mar, 2023

The deadline for applications is March 7th, 2023

F. Essler – “Eigenstate Thermalization and Conservation Laws

The deadline for applications is January 7th, 2023.

The SISSA scientist distinguished himself for the excellence of his studies in the field of statistical physics.

A conference in honour of Sergio Caracciolo’s 70th birthday

Quantum Entanglement at all Distances – Subir Sachdev”

“Statistical mechanics of metals without quasiparticles, and…”

The deadline for applications is January 7th, 2022.

Second-year in a row this prestigious prize goes to a student of our group.

The deadline for applications is March 9th, 2021.

On Thursday 22 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by Prof. Leticia Cugliandolo entitled “Thermodynamic concepts out of equilibrium: from classical to quantum”.

The deadline for applications is January 7th, 2021.

The SISSA Professor has been awarded the prestigious recognition for the Physical-Chemical area

Lorenzo Piroli won the the “Sergio Fubini” Prize for his thesis at SISSA.

The book has been published by Edizioni Dedalo (in Italian).

The lectures will restart on March 9th, 2020.

The deadline for applications is March 3rd, 2020.

On Thursday 20 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by physicist-mathematician Herbert Spohn entitled “Hydrodynamics of integrable many-body systems ”.

The deadline for applications is January 15th, 2020.

The seventh meetings between the Trieste and the Ljubljana statistical physics communities took place in SISSA.

A preview of Giuseppe Mussardo and Gaspare Polizzi’s new book.

A conference at ICTP celebrating Giuseppe Mussardo’s 60 years.

The sixth in a series of meetings to take place between the Trieste and the Ljubljana statistical physics communities, with discussions and speakers from both sides. Hosted at Ljubljana University.

The European Physical Society-Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Division Early Career Prize has been awarded to Valentina Ros, SISSA PhD in 2016.

The fifth Trieste–Ljubljana meeting was hosted by ICTP Adriatico Guest House.

On Wednesday 20 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by physicist Paul Fendley entitled “Between Order and Disorder”. The event will take place in room 128-129 at 2.30 pm.

Applications are invited for PhD fellowships in Statistical Physics for the academic year 2019–20.

On Wednesday 16 January a talk by Itamar Procaccia of the Weizmann Institute of Science on the physical origin of mechanical failure of amorphous media closes the series of 2018 SISSA Colloquia…

Marcello Dalmonte is an expert in quantum information, who works at ICTP and regularly collaborates with SISSA. Dalmonte will be among those responsible for a crucial project to make one of the five research pillars of the European flagship tangible: quantum simulation…

The fourth in a series of meetings to take place between the Trieste and the Ljubljana statistical physics communities, with discussions and speakers from both sides. Hosted at Ljubljana University.

Applications are invited for four postdoctoral positions with the SISSA Statistical Physics Group, starting in autumn 2019. The positions have a total duration of two years…

SISSA hosted a four-days conference on non-equilibrium physics on September 10^th–13^th.

The third in a series of meetings to take place between the Trieste and the Ljubljana statistical physics communities, with discussions and speakers from both sides. Hosted at SISSA, Trieste.

Naftali Tishby of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presents a novel comprehensive theory of large scale learning with Deep Neural Networks, based on the correspondence between Deep Learning and the Information Bottleneck framework.

Many phenomena in mathematics and science can be modeled by drawing finite networks whose nodes are connected by edges with specified lengths. After imposing various natural constraints, the set of all such models forms a geometric space, with one point for each possible model. Although some properties of these spaces are easy to verify (such as the fact that they are connected), deeper aspects (such as whether they have “holes” of various dimensions) remain quite mysterious and are the focus of much current mathematical activity. In this talk Karen Vogtmann of Warwick University will describe these spaces and show why you might expect them to have holes. She will then explain why these spaces are of particular interest to mathematicians studying group theory and low-dimensional topology.

A new kind of computing is on the horizon, one that could revolutionize the way complex problems are solved. Quantum computing will be the main topic of a public roundtable hosted by ICTP and SISSA on March 14 under the patronage of Confindustria, featuring high level panelists from IBM and Google as well as a scientist involved in the EC Flagship on Quantum Technologies. In addition, ICTP and SISSA will make a major announcement about a new institute related to quantum computing in Trieste, a joint initiative with the University of Trieste.
Image by Stef Simmons.

The Statistical Physics Group at SISSA is launching this week the Boltzmann Lecture, an event to celebrate the Austrian physicist on his birthday.
An outstanding guest, the physicist Immanuel Bloch, will start the initiative with the talk entitled Using Ultracold Quantum Gases to Probe New and Old Frontiers of Statistical Physics.

After the Starting Grant received in 2011, Pasquale Calabrese, Professor in statistical physics at SISSA, proves his scientific excellence with the award of a Consolidator Grant. In this way SISSA reaches 21 grants in ten years of activity of the European Research Council — ERC. The project, worth 1.5 million Euros, will last for five years and will start next September.

The story of the mathematician Évariste Galois heralds the opening of the 2017 Trieste Science+Fiction Festival. The romantic legend of an absolute prodigy of mathematics, who was killed at a very young age during a fatal duel on 29 May 1832, comes to life in a documentary film by Giuseppe Mussardo and Diego Cenetiempo, produced by SISSA and ICTP. By blending the biographical and the creative, the film tells of the beginning of an extraordinary scientific adventure made up of profound intuitions, which were unappreciated at the time but which were to change the face of mathematics and physics over the following two centuries. The Italian premiere of Galois. Story of a revolutionary mathematician will be presented on Friday 27 October at 6.30pm at the Ariston cinema (Italian version).

Her work tools are paper, pen and a whiteboard to use «when she needs to share ideas with others, discuss problems and look for solutions». Computers? «Yes, sometimes». Laura Foini fills everything with formulas and calculations — what is needed to study «systems out of equilibrium, my research sector, encompassed by the environment of statistical physics». It is a field in which this young researcher, born in 1984 in Brescia province, excels. Her merits have recently been recognized by the Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize, awarded by the European Physical Society (EPS) to young scholars who have distinguished themselves in the quality of their published work and the value of their contribution to the scientific field. The award is the crowning achievement in an already ultra-prestigious career which has seen Laura Foini training and working at the top ranked Italian and international institutions.

A deep understanding of the irreversibility of the arrow of time cannot ignore the quantum nature of the world that surrounds us. This is the key result of the work carried out by Vincenzo Alba and Pasquale Calabrese of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

A recent study at SISSA adds a new chapter to what we know about confinement. Using a relatively simple method, it has been shown how to determine whether, in a system with ferromagnetic characteristics, the emerging “particles” are subject to confinement. The study was published in Nature Physics, the prestigious journal in the Nature group.