Visits of CEOC researchers to foreign institutions
Year:
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2008
- Visit of Gladys Castillo to Universidad de Málaga
Curso de especialização "Bayesian network classifiers in data mining",
associado ao programa doutoral "Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia
Artificial". Departamento de Linguagens y Ciências da Computação.
Universidad de Málaga (data: 10-12 Junho 2008)
http://groups.google.com/group/aprendizagem-ua/web/curso-malaga
- Visit of Evgeny Lakshtanov (Moskau) to Mathematics Institut in Munique.
Evgeny Lakshtanov will give an invited lecture in Mathematics Institut in Munique (December 3-6, 2008) See: http://www.mathematik.uni-muenchen.de/~lerdos/os0809/
The scientific program of this visit included:
A seminar with title:
"Scattering by obstacles"
ABSTRACT:We consider acoustic scattering of a plane wave by an obstacle. I present several recent results concerning properties of the scattering amplitude also as a new analytical technique for studying Helmholtz exterior equation for intermediate values of the frequency.
- Visit of Ana M. Martins (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2-6 June 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Gregorio Hernandez and Prof. Santiago
Canales (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) on Metha-heuristics for NP-illumination problems.
A seminar with the title:
Hiding Points in Polygons Using Approximation Algorithms".
- Visit of Gladys Castillo to Department of Languages and
Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of
Malaga, Spain, 5-10 June, 2008.
The scientific program of
this visit included:
Collaboration with Eva Millán and Cristina Carmona on
the design and implementation of an adaptive Bayesian user
model in e-learning.
A intensive course with the title: "Bayesian Networks
Classifiers in Data Mining" associated to the doctoral
program "Software Engineering and Artificial
Intelligence". All the information about this course can
be found on-line in
http://groups.google.com/group/aprendizagem-ua/web/curso-malaga
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2-6 June 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas on Variants of 2-illumination Problems.
A seminar with the title:
“Safe routes under Minimum Range”.
- Visit of Prof. Evgeny Lakshtanov to Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zurich, 26-30 May 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included two reports:
"Mathematics and little ones", 29 May 2008
"Upper bounds for Total Cross Section for obstacle scattering with impedance boundary conditions", 27 May 2008.
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to the Institute of Mathematics and Physics,
Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK (1 week visit), May 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with Alexander Yu. Plakhov.
- Visit of Pedro Cruz
to the Institute of Mathematics and Physics,
Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK (2 week visit), April, 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with Alexander Yu. Plakhov.
- Visit of Domingos M Cardoso to University of Malta, Msida, Malta, 21 April-3 May
The scientific program of this visit included:
Joint research with Irene Sciriha from the Department of Mathematics,
Faculty of Sciences, University of Malta and the seminars with the
titles:
Spectral Properties and Applications of (k,t)--regular sets: an overview"
April 28 at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Malta,
Matching and Partial Colouring" May 30 at the Department of Mathematics,
Faculty of Sciences, University of Malta
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to Moscow State University, 16 – 31 March 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included 3 talks:
Talk at the seminar on Geometry (conducted by Academician A. T. Fomenko) with the title:
"Billard scattering on rough sets", March 31, 2008.
Talk at the seminar on Dynamical Systems (conducted by Academician D.
V. Anosov), Moscow State University (18:30), March 31, 2008.
Talk at the seminar on Theoretical Mechanics (conducted by Vice-President of
Russian Academy of Science V.V. Kozlov) with the title:
"Billiard in the exterior of rough sets and problems of optimal
aerodynamic resistance" March 24, 2008.
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to Imperial College, London, UK, Jan. 21 – 23.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Talk at the seminar (DynamIC Seminars) with the title:
“Billiards, Newtonian aerodynamics, and optimal mass
transportation”, Jan. 22, 2008.
- Visit of Prof. Evgeny Lakshtanov to Institute for information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia, January 8th 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Talk "Explicit representation of Green function for 3Dimensional exterior Helmholtz equation".
- Visit of Prof. Tatiana Tchemisova to the Department of Mathematical
Theory of Systems, Institute of Mathematics of Belarusian Academy of
Sciences, Belarus, December 2007 to January 2008.
The scientific program of this visit included:
A seminar (with Olga Kostyukova):
"On a new approach to solution of convex SIP problems with continuum of constraints"
Working sessions with Olga Kostyukova, the leading specialist of the Department of Mathematical Theory of Systems.
2007
- Visit of Domingos M Cardoso to Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, 3-10 January.
The scientific program of this visit included:
research work with Slobodan Simic e Dragos Cvetkovic, both member of
Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, into
the framework of project "Graph theory and mathematical programming
with applications in chemistry and engineering"
and the seminar with the title:
Convex quadratic programming techniques on graphs and related spectral
results. Seminar on Applied and Industrial Mathematics of the
Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, June 5,
Belgrade
- Visit of Domingos M Cardoso to Adam Mickiewicz Univesrity, Poznan, Poland, 1-20 July
The scientific program of this visit included:
joint work with Jerzy Szymanski from Discrete Mathematics Department of
Adam Mickiewicz University and Marian Dondajewski from Institute of
Mathematics, Poznan University of Technology related with the
preparation of a book on Discrete mathematics.
- Visit of Manuel Guerra to Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), November 21, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
During this visit was given a talk "Control theory from the geometric point of view."
- Visit of Manuel Guerra to Dipartimento de Matematica per le Decisioni. University of Florence, November 7, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
During this visit was given a talk "Optimal reinsurance policy: The
adjustment coefficient and the expected utility criteria."
- One month visit of Delfim F. M. Torres,
as Professeur Invité, to the
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées de Pau,
Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France,
June 1--30, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included
working sessions with Jacky Cresson.
One paper resulted from this visit:
Jacky Cresson, Gastão S. F. Frederico, Delfim F. M. Torres.
Constants of Motion for Non-Differentiable
Quantum Variational Problems,
Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, 2008 (in press)
- Visit of Pedro Cruz to the State University of Moscow, August 2007
The scientific program of this visit included:
Working with Prof. Oleg German on Numerical Simulations about Obstacle Scattering problems.
- Visit of Ana M. Martins (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 9-11 November 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Gregorio Hernandez and Prof. Santiago Canales
(Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) on Study of heuristics e
Meta-heuristics applied to the Maximum Hidden Vertex Set and Minimum
Vertex Guard problems on orthogonal polygons.
Study of the problems: Maximum Hidden Set; Integer Edge Covering;
Minimum Clique Partition of the Visibility Graph of a polygon.
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 4-8 November 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas on E-Voronoi Diagrams and the a-Embracing Contour.
A seminar with the title:
"The alpha-embracing contour".
- Visit of Natália Martins
and Delfim F. M. Torres
to Bialystok Technical University,
Poland (1 week visit), September, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with the center of Popularization
of Mathematics of Bialystok Technical University.
- A joint talk was given entitled
"Mathematical and Computer Activities at the University
of Aveiro -- how to promote Mathematics?"
- Visit of Alena Aleksenko to Moscow state University, Russia, 26-28 August 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
During this visit was given a talk "The problem of the body of
revolution of minimal resistance" (Collaboration with prof.dr. N.
Moschevitin).
- Visit of Prof. Evgeny Lakshtanov to Moscow State University, Russia, August 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Talk on Ya.Sinai seminar "Explicit representation of Green function for 3Dimensional exterior Laplace equation".
- Visit of Ana M. Martins (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 17–26 June 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Gregorio Hernandez and
Prof. Santiago Canales (Universidad Pontificia de Comillas) on
Metha-heuristics for NP-illumination problems.
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to Riga Technical University, Latvia, June 20 – 24, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Participation in the juri on a PhD thesis
and talk at the Mathematics seminar of the university with the title:
“Billiards, optimal transportation and applications to Newtonian
Aerodynamics”, June 22, 2007.
- Visit of Gladys Castillo to Department of Languages and
Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of
Malaga, Spain, 5-10 June, 2008.
The scientific program of
this visit included:
Collaboration with Eva Millán and Cristina Carmona on
the problem of modeling student’s preferences in
e-learning
A seminar with the title: "Adaptive Learning Algorithms
for Bayesian Network Classifiers"
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 17-24 June 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas on 1-good Illumination of Minimum Range and E-Voronoi Diagrams.
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to the University of Toronto, Jan. 14 – 21, 2007.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Joint work with K. Khanin and P. Bachurin on an ergodic problem of
mechanical nature related to maximum resistance problems, wit possible
applications to retroreflectors; collaboration with R. McCann and his
PhD students on the Monge-Kantorovich problem and its applications,
and a talk on the seminar called “Fields Colloquium on Applied Mathematics” with the title:
“Billiards, optimal mass transport and problems of optimal
aerodynamic resistance”, Jan. 17, 2007.
2006
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 26 November - 1 December 2006.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas on Good a-Illumination and the a-Embracing Contour.
- Visit of Prof. Evgeny Lakshtanov to Moscow State University and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, August 2006.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Two Talks on "Quantum analogue of the Newton's problem of minimal resistance".
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to the Department of Engineering Mathematics
of Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia 19--26 May 2006.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with Ilona Dzenite and Elena Ligere.
- A seminar with the title
"On the Noether's Symmetry Principle"
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, Madrid, Spain (supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian grant), 18
April - 26 May 2006.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas, Gregorio Hernández, Belén
Palop (Universidad de Valladolid) and Ferran Hurtado (Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya) on Variations of Minimum Range 1-good
Illumination and E-Voronoi Diagrams.
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, March 7 – 12, 2006.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Discussions with Prof L. Bunimovich and A. Grigo on billiards and their
applications in dynamics and problems of shape optimization
and a talk at the seminar of Georgia Tech with the title:
“Shapes of minimal aerodynamic resistance”, March 9, 2006.
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Two short visits of Alexander Plakhov to Moscow State University, in August and in December.
The scientific program of this visit included two talks:
A talk on the seminar of the Group of Dynamical Systems (conducted by Acad. D.V. Anosov), Dec. 18, 2006.
A talk on the Ya.G. Sinai seminar with the title: “Problems of least
resistance and billiards II”, Aug. 10, 2006.
2005
- Visit of Prof. Vítor Neves to the Department of Mathematics at the
University of Iowa, Iowa City USA, September to December 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Working with Prof. Keith Stroyan on discussion on Various notions of differentiability aiming at
support for Ricardo Almeida PhD Thesis. Complete results were included in Almeida’s thesis.
- Visit of Alexander Plakhov to the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA, Nov. 19 – 22, 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. M. Shvartsman on modelling tornado formation and
a talk on CAM seminar (University of St. Thomas) with the title:
“Shapes of minimal and maximal aerodynamic resistance”,
Nov 21, 2005.
- Two visits of Alexander Plakhov to Moscow State University in April and July 2005.
The scientific program of these visits included 3 talks:
talk on the Ya.G. Sinai seminar with the title:
“Problems of least resistance and billiards”, July 27, 2005.
Talk at the seminar on Geometry (conducted by Academician A. T.
Fomenko) with the title:
“The problems of the body of minimal aerodynamic
resistance”, Apr. 25, 2005.
Talk at the seminar on Theoretical Mechanics (conducted by Vice-
President of Russian Academy of Science V.V. Kozlov) with the title:
“Aerodynamic problems in rarefied media”, Apr. 25,2005
- Visit of Inês Matos (PhD Student) to Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid, Madrid, Spain (supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian grant), 20
April – 20 June 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. Manuel Abellanas and Prof. Gregorio Hernández on 1-good Illumination of Minimum Range.
A seminar with the title:
"Good illumination: a variant to the classical definition of illumination in Computational Geometry".
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres,
with 2 students of the University of Aveiro,
Hugo Santos and João Silva,
to the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
Invited by J. Szymanski.December 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included
programming activities and participation
of the students of Aveiro
in the programming activities of MWPZ'2005.
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to Bialystok Technical University, Poland,
from November 26 to December 1, 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with Zbigniew Bartosiewicz
- A seminar with the title
"Variations around the Deductive Approach in Optimal Control"
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to Bialystok Technical University, Poland.
Guest of the Polish Mathematical Society, Poland. September, 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with the control theory group
of BTU (coordinator, Prof. Zbigniew Bartosiewicz)
- A talk with the title: "Symbolic Computation of Symmetries
and Conservation Laws in Optimal Control"
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to the Department of Engineering Mathematics,
Riga Technical University, Latvia.
Invited by M. Antimirov.March, 2005.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with Ilona Dzenite and Elena Ligere.
2004
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Visit of Alexander Plakhov to Institute of Information Transmission
Problems (IITP) and Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy
of Science, Moscow, Dec. 2005 and visit to Moscow State University,
Nov. 2005.
The scientific program of these visits included collaboration with A.M. Stepin, W.
de Roeck and E. Lakshtanov on problems of billiards and applications to
Newton’s problem and its wave analogue,
and 4 talks:
- Talk at the seminar of IITP (conducted by R.A. Minlos) with the title:
"Newton's aerodynamic problem in media of positive
temperature", Dec. 28, 2004.
- Talk at the seminar of Steklov Math. Institute with the title:
"Newton's aerodynamic problem and Monge-Kantorovich
problem", Dec. 22, 2004.
- Talk at the seminar of Aeromechanics with the title:
"Shapes of optimal aerodynamic resistance", Dec. 21, 2004.
- Talk at the seminar of the Group of Dynamical Systems (conducted
by Acad. D.V. Anosov) with the title:
"Problem of shape optimization for bodies moving in
rarefied media", Nov. 4, 2004.
- Visit of Prof. António Pereira to QCG - Quantum Computation Group,
Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, 15-26 November 2004.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Working with Prof. Jesús García López de Lacalle on Quantum Arithmetic.
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Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to the Département de Mathématiques d'Orsay,
Université Paris-Sud 11, France.
The scientific program of this visit included:
- Working sessions with E. Trélat.
- Visit of Delfim F. M. Torres
to the Department of Control and Automation,
Georgian Technical University, Tbilisi, Georgia, [September 2004].
The scientific program of this visit included:
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visit and talk at the
Georgian-American High School, Tbilisi, Georgia
(Invited by T. Kekenadze)
- visit to
A. Eliashvili Institute of Control Systems,
Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
(Invited by M. Salukvadze)
- working sessions with V. Sesadze.
- Visit of Prof. Delfim F. M. Torres
to SISSA, (ISAS, International School for Advanced Studies),
Trieste, Italy. [May 2004]
The scientific program of this visit included
working sessions with Ugo Boscain and Emmanuel Trélat.
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Visit of Alexander Plakhov to the University of Chambéry, France, Jan. 17 – 23, 2004.
The scientific program of these visits included jount work with T. Lachand-Robert on problems
of nonsymmetric and/or nonconvex bodies of minimal
resistance and
a talk at the seminar of the University of Chambéry with the title:
"Problems of the body of least averaged resistance", Jan. 19, 2004.
- Visit of Domingos M Cardoso to Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 3-10 January
The scientific program of this visit included:
research contacts with Jerzy Szymanski and other members of Discrete
Mathematics Department of Adam Mickiewicz Univesrity and the seminars
with the titles:
- Graphs with convex-QP stability number. Seminar of the Department of Discrete
Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicza University, on January 6
- Moore graphs and (k,t)-regular sets. Seminar on Applied Mathematics,
Institute of Mathematics, Poznan University of Technology, on January 7
Visit of Alexander Plakhov to the University of Pisa, Italy, May 20 – 25, 2003.
The scientific program of this visit included:
Collaboration with Prof. G. Buttazzo on problems of minimal resistance and their
physical and engineering applications;
talk at the seminar of University of Pisa with the title:
"Newton's problem of the body of least resistance: case of
multiple collisions", May 22, 2003.