Seminars, lectures, workshops and presentations organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Lectures
Sala delle Feste, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 - In presence and online event
Natural flow systems evolve efficient dendritic designs. Prof. Lorente shows how hierarchical flow architectures optimize heat, fluid, and biological transport across engineering and nature.
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Aula Prodi Plesso di San Giovanni in Monte - In presence and online event
Explores how China’s global rise reshapes Southeast Asian fashion, showing how designers negotiate identity, power, and creativity through local responses to “Global China.”
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Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 - In presence and online event
Edge-to-cloud systems link devices and cloud computing for fast, efficient services. The talk explains how they work, why predictability matters, and key challenges and solutions.
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Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 - In presence and online event
Partial Differential Equations are fundamental to science, shaping mathematics and linking fields like physics, engineering, art, and artificial intelligence.
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Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 - In presence and online event
Prehistory has been used to exclude Indigenous peoples from history. Decolonial archaeology in Brazil reclaims their continuity, agency, and territorial rights.
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Aula "EMILIO PASQUINI" Via Zamboni 32 - In presence and online event
The lecture explores digital narrativity with LLMs as semiotic agents, redefining narrative as flow and meaning as a balance between interpretive openness and cultural decipherability.
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Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 - In presence and online event
The South Korea’s independent-director system under controlling shareholders, comparing it with Italy and assessing why current governance tools struggle to protect minority shareholders.
Lectures
Sala Armi, Palazzo Malvezzi, via Zamboni 22 - In presence and online event
Sustainable polymer science advances UN SDGs through bio-based materials,green synthesis,recycling,and AI-driven design,enabling cleaner energy,environment, health,and circular economy solutions.
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Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 - In presence and online event
With finite fertilizers and climate stress, smarter use is key: efficient crops, microbes, models, and digital tools to cut losses, pollution, and boost sustainability.
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room not yet identified - In presence and online event
Mosaic art spans ancient to modern times, but lacks academic study. Combining computational aesthetics and creativity could support artists and deepen understanding of beauty in mosaics.
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room not yet identified - In presence and online event
Using Solaris as a lens, this talk explores the limits and biases in defining life, and how astrobiology seeks universal principles to recognize life beyond Earth.
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room not yet identified - In presence and online event
How brain-muscle interactions promote resilience to fatigue in older adults, offering insights for interventions to improve mobility and reduce disability risk.