Professor José Francisco Rodrigues was elected President of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Lisbon Academy of Sciences)
Our colleague José Francisco Rodrigues was elected on 19/12/2024 as the President of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, for a two-year term, whose duties begin in January 2025. Our congratulations and best wishes for a very successful mandate!
José Francisco Rodrigues will also be the President of the Science Class and Fernando Ferreira will be the Vice-Secretary of the Science Class. Many congratulations to both of our colleagues of the Math Department.
Mathematicians of CIÊNCIAS in the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
Founded in 1779, the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (ACL) has maintained uninterrupted activities promoting, disseminating and sharing knowledge in the sciences and humanities. Along the years, members of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics and Operational Research have kept a strong presence in ACL. Professor José Francisco Rodrigues (Vice Secretary General and Secretary of the Sciences Class of ACL) and Professor Fernando Ferreira are currently permanent members of the 1st Section (Mathematics) of the Class of Sciences of ACL, as well as Professor Emeritus João Paulo Dias and Professor Emerita Maria Ivette Gomes. Professor Pedro Miguel Duarte is correspondent member of the section. Professor Luís Gouveia is correspondent member of the 8th Section (Information Sciences and Technology) of the Class of Sciences of ACL. Professor Jorge Buescu and (retired) Professor Luís Saraiva are correspondent members of the 9th Section (Technologies, Knowledge and Society) of the Class of Sciences of ACL.
Important and remarkable figures of twentieth-century mathematics in Portugal, former professors of mathematics at Faculty of Sciences, were members of ACL. We mention Fernando Dias Agudo, António Almeida e Costa, Pedro José da Cunha, José Joaquim Dionísio, José Vicente Gonçalves, Vítor Hugo Lemos, José Tiago de Oliveira e José Sebastião e Silva.
The continued presence at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon of mathematicians of CIÊNCIAS honours the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Statistics and Operational Research and points towards a path of distinction and excellence that the department wants to maintain and to deepen.
We are hiring
The Department of Mathematics offers ample opportunities, since it is in an ongoing process of renewal.
The Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa is presently hiring professors of mathematics at the assistent level, a policy to follow in the coming years.
Welcome to the Department of Mathematics
Our Department has a long tradition and prestige, as the oldest Department of Mathematics in the Lisbon Region, inserted in the reputable Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
It has four main tasks:
- To teach mathematical courses needed for the Faculty of Sciences and University of Lisbon. In what concerns Mathematics, the Department offers degrees in pure and applied mathematics, from Bachelor to PhD Programs.
- To train mathematicians for the contemporary world and for a diversity of employments. The rigorous reasoning, scientific knowledge, creativity, ability to structure problems from real life are skills well-appreciated by a variety of employers.
- To do research in mathematics and train future researchers. The research in the Department covers a large range of scientific areas, from logic to computational complexity, matrix theory to combinatorics, ordinary and partial differential equations, algebraic and differential geometry, among others, with significant applications to real world problems.
- To participate in the education of middle and high school teachers. The department maintains the long tradition of contributing to the training of school teachers. It also has a wide range of outreach activities, in particular dedicated to school students and teachers.
Through the individual contributions of its academic staff, the department has also a long history of intellectual involvement in public life. From pure mathematics to applications, and the recognition of the importance of informatics in today’s world, the Department of Mathematics is resolutely open to the future as a vibrant, international, and strong scientific department.
Teresa Faria
Head of Department
Summer Internships in Mathematics
The 1st edition of the Summer Internships in Mathematics, “Estágios de Verão em Matemática” (EVM), organized by the Department of Mathematics came to an end on July 26, 2024.
The event took place over two weeks at DM and was welcomed with great enthusiasm by interns, mentors, speakers and the general public.
Open to undergraduate students, the EVM included interns from FCUL - DM and DF - and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The program consisted of work carried out by the interns in the form of a small mathematical project developed with the guidance of tutors (PhD students and Master's students of DM), daily scientific seminars or workshops, and ended with a “golden key”: the individual presentation of the research projects. work of the interns, on 07/26 in the afternoon.
Given the success of the event, the 2nd edition of the EVM is already promised for the summer of 2025.
See project details, supervisors, applications and its program at https://evmfcul.wixsite.com/matematica.
