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The Integration Bee is a mathematical competition focused on integral calculus, created at MIT in 1981 and held annually to this day. Since then, this mathematical challenge has been replicated by various universities in both the U.S. and Europe, and now arrives at Instituto Superior Técnico.

This series features a course comprising three lectures by Agustin Moreno from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg titled The symplectic geometry of the three-body problem.

Analogical reasoning is a remarkable human capability, allowing us to adapt to novel situations — an ability that current AI systems still lack.

Much research has suggested that analogies are key to non-brittle systems that can adapt to new domains. Attempts to attack this problem have been fragmented, with different groups focusing on narrow aspects of the problem, each group using their own separate evaluation metrics. We believe that the lack of unifying foundational mathematical frameworks and evaluation benchmarks has been limiting progress in analogy research.

With this conference we aim to bring together leading experts from various research and applied fields to join forces, share perspectives, and collectively define the research agenda for the immediate future. Recognizing the need for foundational work in this area, we seek unifying frameworks, methodologies, and basic principles that will serve as the cornerstone for future advancements.

Principia Analogiae 2025 will involve keynote presentations, followed by working groups to tackle several challenges related to analogy theory and applications. These will be soon announced.

The conference is free of charge but registration is mandatory and places are limited. See the conference site for instructions.

This meeting celebrates Rui Loja Fernandes’ 60th birthday and his important contributions to these areas. The conference will feature both distinguished speakers and promising young researchers.

This meeting will welcome more than 30 internationally renowned experts in Quality Control. It will be supported by IST, CEMAT and DM.

Over 40 years and 14 workshops, the series has established its scope and setting, while exploring such topics as:

• Statistical Process Control and Monitoring
• Sampling Inspection / Plans
• Measurement Uncertainty
• Design of Experiments in Quality Assurance
• Data Warehousing, Explorative Data Analysis, Data Quality
• Machine Learning in Quality Control.

The four previous editions were held in Washington DC, Hong Kong, Hamburg and Sydney.
 

The 2025 edition of the conference Global Portuguese Mathematicians aims to bring together Mathematicians from around the world who have a strong connection with Portugal.

This workshop explores analogical reasoning — a core cognitive skill involving knowledge transfer across domains — and its applications in AI, from traditional symbolic methods to modern neural techniques like LLMs. It aims to unite researchers from machine learning, NLP, and knowledge representation to advance analogical reasoning in AI and vice versa. The goal is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration to deepen understanding and innovation in this foundational aspect of cognition and machine intelligence.

The Department of Mathematics was featured on CNN Innovation, a television program dedicated to technology and scientific innovation.

Complex Analysis and Dynamics in One Variable with Applications by Professor Luis T. Magalhães from the Mathematics Department, was published by Springer Nature. The book offers a smooth start to Complex Analysis, unifying ideas and concepts in a unique way, and includes all the standard material required in a one-year course at the graduate level. In addition, the book is enriched by historical notes that help to contextualize the theory.

Hugo Tavares, vice-president of the Mathematics Department, tells us about Math@Técnico.

The Department of Mathematics continues its collaboration with TreeTree2, supporting the realization of Náboj at the Técnico Innovation Center (TIC). Náboj is an international mathematics competition for teams of five high school students representing their schools. Around 160 students are expected!

The MATHS-DISC consortium, consisting of Università di Verona, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute Kiev, Universidade de Lisboa and Université Grenoble Alpes, and the partner university NTNU Trondheim, was successful with its proposal for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) in Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Data Science together with more than 20 partners from leading industry and research centers (e. g. Siemens, Intel, Bosch, Bayer, d-fine, uRoboptics, Vodafone Ukraine, IDOM, ENGYS, Otto Bock, DLR, Terranova, NeuronsLab, Computer Solutions SA, Royal IHC, …) from different sectors and from all over Europe.

This novel EMJM will have a total budget of about 5 million Euros in funding from the European Union over six years. The program is also supported by the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) and the European Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation (EU-MATHS-IN) to train the PhD students of tomorrow and to establish interdisciplinary networks to share best practices at European level to overcome geographical and scientific fragmentation. 

The program is scheduled to start in the winter semester 2025/26 and applications should be possible from February 2025. For more general information about this EMJM, please contact Prof. Cláudia Nunes.