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CMIS 2026 in Lugano: four days of international exchange on contact mechanics
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (173+ words) From 21 to 24 April, the Continental Parkhotel in Lugano hosted CMIS 2026, an international congress on contact mechanics, organised by the Euler Institute of the USI Faculty of Informatics. CMIS 2026 was organised by Rolf Krause, Patrick Zulian, Marco Favino, and Maria Giuseppina…...
Inaugural event for the new Institute of Sustainable Architecture and Technology (IAST)
3+ week, 4+ day ago (157+ words) Following its establishment on 15 September 2025, the new Institute of Sustainable Architecture and Technology (IAST) at Universit" della Svizzera italiana will host its official inauguration on Thursday, 16 April 2026. Held at the Agor" Lio Galfetti in Palazzo Canav'e, Mendrisio, the event is…...
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1+ mon, 4+ day ago (34+ words) The Regenerative Medicine Division of the Institute for Translational Research is excited to share a new publication that offers a novel perspective on blood vessels and their physiological aging'Universit" della Svizzera italiana | USI...
Deciphering DNA to Halt Huntington's
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (194+ words) A Turning Point It is precisely this "jump"the progressive expansion of the repeatsthat Cejka's laboratory has recently clarified by reconstructing the molecular mechanism under controlled conditions. "In vitro, using purified proteins, we can mix the components with the DNA…...
Deep Generative Mechanisms for 3 D: From De Novo Flow Models to Latent Space Optimization
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (92+ words) Date: 26 March 2026 / 16: 00 - 17: 00 USI East Campus, Room D0. 02 Faculty of Informatics - Academic Studies Administration +41 58 666 46 90 Learning on the Fly: From Domain Adaptation to On-device Learning on Autonomous Nano-UAVs Quando le macchine decidono: dove finisce il ruolo umano? Simposio di Medicina Nucleare della Svizzera…...
Security Challenges of Large Language Models
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (87+ words) USI East Campus, Room D1. 13 Facolt" di scienze informatiche - Segreterie degli studi +41 58 666 46 90 Euresearch - Access Global Research Talent through MSCA - A Business-Focused Info Event Id EP Seminar, Matteo Grigoletto - "Virality: What Makes Narratives Go Viral and Does it Matter" Presentazione del libro…...
Understanding Switzerland's energy strategy through a video game
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (89+ words) Initially promoted as part of a national survey, the game involved thousands of citizens. "The feedback indicates that most players rated the experience positively, finding it engaging and easy to understand," the professor concluded. IMCA Research seminar - Michael Rowlinson - University…...
Who's Really in Control? Human-AI Collaboration in Software Engineering
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (228+ words) Date: 5 March 2026 / 16: 30 - 17: 30 USI East Campus, Room D1. 13 Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Bavota, USI Abstract: In this talk, I will share findings from two recent studies investigating the effects of AI assistance on code writing and code review. Our results shed some light…...
ACM becomes fully open access
2+ mon, 14+ hour ago (203+ words) As of January 2026, all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) publications - journals, conference proceedings and magazines - will be published Open Access (OA). Publications will be free to access and share. As stated by ACM in their announcement, "this change reflects the…...
Two USI researchers awarded SNSF Postdoc. Mobility 2025 grant
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (364+ words) Chiara Mercuri and Cristian Tirelli, currently Ph D students at Universit" della Svizzera italiana (USI), have been awarded funding through the SNSF Postdoc. Mobility programme. The call, promoted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), supports young researchers who are…...