Short Course: Phyton Speaker: Jesus Ossian Silva, NOVA Math Topics– O que é Python?– Instalação– Variáveis e operadores– Comandos– Estrutura de dados– Arquivos– Funções Dates/times:9, 11, 16 e 18 January 2024 – at 14pm to 16pmTotal: 8hours To facilitate logistics, if you…

Lourdes Afonso, NOVA Math member, was elected board member of the Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE). The AAE was founded in 1978 with the aim of representing the actuarial associations in Europe. Its main purpose is to advise the different…

On 20th March 2023, Dr. Marta Lopes will initiate functions as Auxiliary Researcher in a joint position between NOVA Math and UNIDEMI, strengthening the collaboration between these two R&D units. Dr. Lopes research activities have been focused on the development…

Paulo Guilherme Santos – NOVA Math researcher and PhD student in Mathematics at NOVA SST was selected as member of the European Mathematical Society Young Academy (EMYA) (https://euromathsoc.org/EMYA). The EMYA, created by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), aims to strengthen…

The premier of the 13th season of the TV show “Isto é Matemática”, that counts with the support NOVA Math, was held in the weekend of 25-26 February. You can follow the program on the SIC channels and YouTube.  This…

Speaker: Helena Ramalhinho (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Date/time: 05/12/2022 (Monday), at 16:30 Location: room 1.19 building VII Title: Optimization with Social Impact Abstract: Analytics focuses on transforming data into insights by applying advanced analytical methods, based on mathematics, statistics, operations research…

Speaker: Persi Diaconis (Stanford University) Date/time: 07/11/2022 (Monday), at 14:00 Location: Seminar room, building VII Title: The mathematics of solitaire (and an introduction to patience sorting) Abstract: Millions of people play solitaire (patience) every day. One of the (many) embarrassments…

The University of Stanford updated the list of the most cited scientists worldwide, at the top 2% of their respective areas. Once more, this list includes the NOVA Math researcher Marcos Raydan. The list is the result of a study…

Speaker: Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York) Date/time: 06/06/2022 (Monday), at 14:00 (UTC+1) Zoom info: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83471440199 Meeting ID: 834 7144 0199 Title:  Factoring the Dedekind-Frobenius determinant Abstract: In 1875, Smith computed the determinant of the n x n matrix…

Speaker: Marcelo Aguiar (Cornell) Date/time: 09/05/2022 (Monday), at 14:00 (UTC+1) Zoom info: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/83471440199 Meeting ID: 834 7144 0199 Title: Hopf-Lie theory relative to a hyperplane arrangement Abstract:  The talk is based on recent and ongoing work with Swapneel Mahajan in which…