News: Success Stories

 

Andreia Christina Rafael began her Ph.D. in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship (TCE) two years ago in Portugal and has been in Pittsburgh since 2008.In her opinion it is a “very rewarding experience because I feel I have learned a lot.” Andreia is developing a project in the area of intellectual property. In May, she presented her first paper and is currently starting to work on the second one. Her goal is to understand how companies can spend a period without IPR protection before submitting their patents. “In my view, the decision to patent is very strategic and depends on the competition”, because “we only need protection when someone wants to emulate our products.” Her major objective from a very young age has been to follow an academic career. “I graduated from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, took my master at ISCTE and then came to this program with a top university that does a great job at interdisciplinary.”

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“The Program allows a person to experience two worlds: Portuguese and American. Perceive what is good or bad and draw comparisons.”
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Philipo Cagnetti: Post-Doc in Mathematics Department

What project are you developing? I am a Post-Doc in the Mathematics Department under the supervision of Irene Fonseca and Giovanni Leoni. At the moment I am working on lower semi continuity of higher order functionals. This will be useful in treating rigorously several mathematical models that have been introduced by physicists and engineers. _________ “I hope I will become both a good researcher and a good professor and that I will wake up every day happy to go to work!” ___________

How has your experience been so far?
Amazing, in many ways. The academic side of my time here has been what I expected it to be: I had the opportunity to work with extremely talented people and I found my mentors both kind and helpful. This has made every working day very pleasant.

When will you go to Portugal?
My time in Portugal officially begins on September 1st, but I am spending the month of July in Lisbon, both to start my work with Diogo Gomes at the Instituto Superior Técnico and to attend some conferences. This means no rest during the summer!

Bet on innovation and new technologies
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Joao Cunha e Silva stressed in the presentation of projects worth 1.7 million Vice President of the Government, João Cunha e Silva, presided yesterday in Madeira Tecnopolo. The presentation sessions of the three projects for Research and Technological Development (RTD), will be coordinated by Madeira Tecnopolo and developed in partnership with the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) program and Zon Multimedia. Read the article online from Jornal da Madeira. Read the story online.

Faculty wins award for best papers in operations management
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Award for Best Scientific Article published internationally in the field of operations management in 2008 was awarded to Professor Francisco Veloso. Professor Veloso is currently sharing his time between the Business and Economics School at Universidade Catolica in Lisbon and the department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the members of the coordinating team of ICTI@CMU. Read article in pdf.

Agreement of Lajes earns much cooperation
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Most of the agreements concluded between the Portuguese authorities and the U.S. is based on the Agreement on Cooperation and Defense between Portugal and the United States, which grants the Pentagon the use of base facilities in moderation . The case of Carnegie Mellon and Portugal, signed between the Portuguese Government and American University, the subject of cooperation, relates to projects in the field of information processing networks, including critical infrastructure and risk analysis, as well as areas of applied mathematics, technology, innovation and policy. Read article in pdf.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The summer school and workshop is a yearly event that brings together Ph.D. students and junior faculty with well known experts in the several areas of mathematics. This year, the two-week program will be held in Lisbon, Portugal at the Interdisciplinary Complex of the University of Lisbon. The week of July 13 to 17 will feature a summer school for graduate students and postdocs, with lectures by E.Carlen, P. Degond, I. Gamba, M. Katsoulakis and R. Pego. The following week of July 20 to 24 will hold a workshop featuring lectures on recent progress in this field.

Register Now at http://kinetic.ptmat.fc.ul.pt.

Graduate and post doctoral students are eligible to apply for funding for the first and second week of the program.
SPEAKERS
Key Note speaker: Antonio Camera. Issues related to Digital Media
Invited workshop speakers: (* to be confirmed)

• Juan Acebron (Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa)
• Eli Ben Naim (Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA) (2 hour lecture)
• Marzia Bisi (Parma, Italy)
• Maria C. Carvalho (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Fabio Chalub (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Isabelle Choquet* (University West, Trollhattan, Sweden)
• Anabela Cruzeiro (GFM and Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
• Miguel Escobedo (Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)
• Ester Gabetta (Universita di Pavia, Italy)
• Wilfrid Gangbo (Gatech, USA)
• Diogo Gomes (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
• Patricia Goncalves (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
• Michael Loss (Gatech)
• Sylvie Meleard* (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)
• Stephane Mischler (Dauphine, Paris, France)
• Clement Mouhot (Dauphine, Paris)
• Filipe Oliveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Maria Joao Oliveira (CMAF and Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
• Eugenio Regazzini (Pavia, Italy)
• Christian Ringhofer* (Arizona State University, USA)
• Lisa Santos (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
• Dejan Slepcev (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Ana Jacinta Soares (Univerdidade de Minho, Portugal)
• Tom Spencer* (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
• Giuseppe Toscani (Universita di Pavia, Italy)
• Rui Vilela Mendes ( CMAF and Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
• Cedric Villani* (ENS, Lyon, France)
• Bernt Wennberg (Chalmers, Sweden)

UA hosts information sessions on opportunities for students
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

This week, the UA students have the opportunity to discover new opportunities to close the level of training, scholarships and employment. On Wednesday, day 18, there will be a session on the 2nd edition of the Master of Science in Information Networking (MSIN), provided under the agreement UA – Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) partnership, a session on the GMS Program Recruitment 2009 and one on the programs of mobility and Erasmus Campus Europaea. Read article in pdf.

The international alliance
Friday, March 20, 2009

“The international alliance” – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Texas-Austin are three names for reference in the world of knowledge. Under the Technology Plan, are a number of companies and educational institutions; Portuguese have ongoing joint programs with the three American universities. The CMU|Portugal program takes to be a platform for collaboration between universities and institutions of national R & D, CMU and companies are active in the ICT sector nationally. Read article in pdf.

PT supports Academy of Sciences of Mozambique with IT hardware
Friday, February 20, 2009

Portugal Telecom (PT) will contribute IT equipment to the Academy of Sciences of Mozambique, a project launched today in Maputo by the Government of Mozambique. Besides the hardware, PT signed with the Academy of Sciences of Mozambique a cooperation program in the context of the Carnegie Mellon| Portugal Program, which will support the participation of Mozambican staff in training and education. Read the aticle online from Jornal de Negocios.