Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica (CEFITEC)
CEFITEC is a research centre dedicated to Physics, Physics Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Main areas of R&D are:
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Surface and Interface Physics and Technology (Thin films, Catalysis, Interface processes at the molecular level, Surface spectroscopies);
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Advanced Materials (Insulator and wide band-gap semiconductor oxides, magnetic and superconducting materials, nano-structures and liquid crystals);
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Atomic and Molecular Interactions (processes in environmental and biological molecules; molecular beam interactions, relativistic auto-consistent studies of atoms and molecules);
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Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (Protein studies, Elemental analysis of biological tissues; UUV irradiation to biomolecules; Medical instrumentation and diagnose methods; RMN imaging in medicine; hemodynamics; transport phenomena in biological tissues; Monte-Carlo simulations applied to Radiotherapy; Skin substitutes;
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Instrumentation (Cryogenics Instrumentation; Experimental demonstration devices for Physics classes; medical instrumentation);
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Nuclear Reactions and Techniques (Reactions relevant to Nuclear Astrophysics; nuclear reaction based analytical techniques);
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Optics, Optoelectronics and Lasers (Multi photon ionization, Non linear optics, instrumentation based in optical spectroscopies; solid-state lasers).
Centro de Matemática e Aplicações (CMA)
Research at CMA covers, non exclusively, the following topics: Algebra, Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Algebraic Geometry, Combinatorics, Matrices and Graphs, Ockham algebras and semigroups, Languages and Automata; Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Singular Integral Equations, Numerical Analysis, Differential Inclusions, Dynamical Systems, Calculus of Variations, Asymptotic Analysis, Continuous Media Mechanics; Statistics, Linear models, Analysis of variance, Droughts Management, Distribution Theory, Near-exact distributions, Likelihood ratio statistics, Exact distributions, Extreme value theory; Actuarial and Financial Mathematics; Mathematical Economics; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Operations Research Combinatorial Optimization, Non linear Programming, Management, Simulation, Neural Networks; Mathematical Education, History of Mathematical Education.