Lourdes Afonso, CMA member, was elected as President of the "Instituto dos Atuários Portugueses".
NOVA Math
CMA together with FCT NOVA celebrates the Science and Technology Week, which runs from November 23 to 29, 2020.There are 5 activities organized by CMA researchers (November 24 to 27):O que faz um Matemático?Fibonacci - vida e obraLegado Matemático -…
FCT announced the results of the ST&DT Projects Call in all scientific domains, in which 312 projects were selected for funding. Marta Lopes' project, "MONET: Multi-Omic NETworks in gliomas", in the area of Computer and Information Sciences and Informatics, was…
Persi Diaconis is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.Persi Diaconis will give a lecturer online on this Wednesday, October, 28, at the…
About the speaker: Persi Diaconis is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards.Additional informationAccess (Zoom)Abstract: 'Everybody knows' that a vigorously flipped coin is equally likely…
Persi Diaconis is the guest speaker in the first session of the NOVA Online Distinguished Lecture Series on Mathematics and he will present the lecture “A Mathematician Flips a Coin” on October 28, at 2:00 pm, on this link.Persi Diaconis…
One postdoctoral fellowship is opened within the scope of the research unit “Center for Mathematics and Applications” (CMA) UI/297/2020, financed by “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.”. (ref. UIDP/00297/2020 and UIDB/00297/2020). This international call for hiring a postdoctoral fellowship is in the…
João Araújo, CMA member, was elected, on July 14th 2020, President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society for the 2020/2022 biennium. The new president intends to “give mathematics more visibility by demonstrating how it can contribute to improving people's lives." In…
The scholarships will be financed by the “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” (FCT) under the Collaboration Protocol for Financing the Multiannual Plan for Research scholarships for PhD Students, signed between FCT and the R&D Unit “Centro de Matemática e Aplicações”…
An international call is now open (12th June to 10th July) to hire a PhD Researcher to conduct research activities in the field of Spatial Statistics, in the scope of the Project PTDC/MAT-STA/28243/2017, “PREFERENTIAL: Improving spatial estimation and survey design through preferential sampling in fishery…