IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

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IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
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Location Lucca
Address Piazza San Ponziano, 6 55100 Lucca, Italy
Website imtlucca.it/
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IMT Lucca San Francesco Campus with a view over the San Francesco Church
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IMT Lucca San Francesco Campus Courtyard
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IMT Lucca San Francesco Dormitories
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IMT Lucca Library View
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IMT Lucca San Francesco Passageway

IMT (Institutions, Markets, Technologies) School for Advanced Studies (formerly Institute for Advanced Studies) is located in Lucca, Italy.[1] As an institute for advanced studies, IMT hosts researchers who carry out methodological research, held to high scientific standards, leading to the development of new knowledge. IMT's specially designed campus fosters the continual presence of visiting scholars that contribute to creating a stimulating and intellectually lively environment. At the same time, IMT is also an institute of technology where numerous research projects are undertaken to apply cutting-edge scientific results to solve problems of economic, industrial, and societal interest. IMT's institutional role is also that of a graduate school where knowledge is transmitted to young PhD students.

The school is relatively young, but has already attracted significant attention from national and international media.[2] On its supervisory boards are such figures of international science as H. Eugene Stanley and Gerard Roland.

The school receives a mixed public-private funding.

In 2013, the institute's division of economics came out first in the ranking of Italian economics departments.[3]

In 2015, IMT Lucca was ranked as one of the top young research institutions in Europe by the EU's ranking U-Multirank[4].

In 2016, IMT Lucca once again confirmed its standing in the EU rankings, placing first among all the research universities in Italy, and third in Europe among research institutions established post-1980[5].

Academics

The multidisciplinary PhD program of IMT, integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. It offers a unique and characteristic patrimony of competences within the broad framework of the analysis and management of a plurality of systems. The three year program is articulated in curricula. The 8 curricula currently offered are field-specific, although in many instances they share a common scientific background. Candidates can apply for one (or more) of the following curricula:

IMT concentrates its activities within a limited number of key areas. Moreover, the Institute recruits its faculty on a competitive international scale, evaluating, among other elements, their capacity to publish work in top level international peer-reviewed and high-impact journals.

The pillars of the institute's research model are its thematic research units, highly specialized in a specific field, that often cooperate in interdisciplinary projects:

AXES - Laboratory for the Analysis of Complex Economic Systems

DYSCO - Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization

ICES - Institutional Change, Economics, Society

LIME - Laboratory of Innovation Management and Economics

LYNX - Center for the interdisciplinary Analysis of Images

MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials

NETWORKS - Complex Networks

POLHIST - Political History

PRIAn - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis

SysMA - System Modelling and Analysis

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