UT Austin Portugal at IST
Overview
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The UT Austin-Portugal Program is a program established between The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Portuguese research and higher education institutions, as agreed between the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) and UT Austin, on the basis of the Assessment Report submitted in February 2007 by UT Austin to the Government of Portugal. The activities launched under the auspices of the UT Austin-Portugal Program are grounded on a single governance structure, designated as the "International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies", or CoLab, and has two poles: one in Portugal, the CoLab@Portugal, and other at UT Austin, the CoLab@UTAustin.
The activities of CoLab are divided in three major groups:
- Interdisciplinary research and advanced education activities in areas encompassing digital media, advanced computing and mathematics;
- On-job training for entrepreneurs and technology transfer officers and related technology commercialization activities, including internships and = an exchange program for entrepreneurs and technology transfer officers, in a w= ay to form a University Technology Enterprise Network, UTEN; and
- Continuous identification and promotion of cooperation in emerging technologies between UTAustin and Portuguese institutions.
UT Austin-Portugal Activities at IST
Within CoLab, IST is involved in the following research activities and dual doctoral programs:
CoLab UT Austin - Portugal Mathematics and Doctoral Program in Mathematics
Under the CoLab agreement, the IST will participate in several events and initiatives: the Lisbon-University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Program in Mathematics (LUTAMath), a post-doctoral and junior faculty exchange program, summer schools and research projects.
The LUTAMath is a joint Ph.D. program between the Mathematics Departments of the three Lisbon public Universities (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and the University of Texas at Austin.
The CoLab Mathematics Summer School is a yearly event that aims at bringing together Ph.D. students and junior faculty with well known experts in the several areas of mathematics.This first summer school, will be held in the Mathematics Department of Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, from June 16-20, 2008, the main topic is Dynamical Systems with particular emphasis on pure and applied Hamiltonian dynamics.
Advanced Computing and Doctoral Program in Computational and Engineering Sciences
Under the CoLab agreement, Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) will participate in several events and initiatives: the IST -University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Program in Computational Engineering, a post-doctoral and junior faculty exchange program, research workshops and projects.
The joint Ph.D. program is organized by IST (Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mathematics) and the University of Texas at Austin.
The CoLab workshop in Computational Engineering: Fluid Dynamics is a yearly event that aims at bringing together Ph.D. students and junior faculty with well known experts in the areas of Computational Engineering. This year it will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, from July 10-11 2008.
| CoLab UT Austin - Portugal Mathematics and Doctoral Program in Mathematics | Prof. Diogo Gomes |
| Advanced Computing and Doctoral Program in Computational and Engineering Sciences | Prof. Carlos Mota Soares |
PhD Grants
A limited number of PhD grants will be offered by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) to interested candidates wishing to enroll as doctoral students in these doctoral programs.