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Mr David José Rafael Lopes (David José Rafael)02/07/2019, 14:00
In this document we can look at a CAPSTONE project between IST and the company unbabel with emphasis in the part of the project that I'm responsible for.
The WOK Project is a Capstone type of project, developed between Lisbon University's Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Faculty of Fine-Arts (FBAUL) Master Degree's final year, resulting in a final project report and master thesis. In...
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David Neto02/07/2019, 14:15
Solar energy is gaining a lot of traction in recent years and is one of the main candidates for the substitution of fossil fuel energy sources. In this work, it will be built a standalone photovoltaic system associated to a single axis solar tracker. A performance evaluation of the system will be done to assess the economical viability of such a system, and whether it can produce a larger...
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Mr Diogo Pires (Instituto Superior Técnico)02/07/2019, 14:30
The evolutionary origins of information transfer and honest signaling remains an open challenge for a vast plethora of research areas, from Philosophy and Theoretical Biology to the Physics of Complex Systems. An approach on this topic will be done, resorting to a combination of analytical tools. The first is game theory, with particular emphasis on signaling games for both costly and...
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Mr Diogo Valada (Instituto Superior Técnico)02/07/2019, 14:45
Quantum computers promise a framework to efficiently tackle problems that are intractable even to modern day supercomputers. This new type of computers harnesses properties of quantum of quantum physics, like access to a bigger computational space (thanks to the Hilbert space used to describe quantum phenomena), quantum entanglement and interference. These provide na unprecedented level of...
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Gonçalo Andrade (University of Lisbon)02/07/2019, 15:00
Black holes (BH) are the fundamental particles of gravity, in the framework of General Relativity. They are extremely simple objects and can host several fascinating phenomena. Amongst these is superradiance, a mechanism through which rotational energy can be extracted from BHs by bosonic fields. Such mechanisms can be used to explore our universe, looking for new types of matter beyond the...
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Laura Peres (IST)02/07/2019, 15:15
Very-high-energy (VHE) cosmic gamma-rays are messengers of violent processes in the Universe. At lower energies, this radiation can be detected by satellites experiments. However, as the energy increases the flux becomes too scarce, and one must rely on ground-based observatories to detect gamma-rays, taking advantage of the large electromagnetic showers that are created when it enters the...
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Mr Guilherme Machado Santos Soares (Universidade de Lisboa, IST (PT))02/07/2019, 16:00
The Search for Hidden Particles experiment is currently being prepared. Amongst other purposes, it will try to detect for the first time the direct decays of Hidden Sector particles to Standard Model ones. Amongst these, are Dark Photons and Heavy Neutral Leptons. I will be talking about the preparation for this experiment, and more specifically, the optimization of the selection of specific...
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João Cunha (IST)02/07/2019, 16:15
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) relaxometry is a powerful nuclear spectroscopy technique, that has a diverse array of research, clinical and industrial applications. It is used in a broad variety of scientific fields such as, physics, chemistry, materials engineering and medicine.
The aim of this technique is to obtain detailed information about the structure and dynamics of a given...
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Mr Luis Pereira (University of Lisbon)02/07/2019, 16:30
The Wigner function is one of the main 5 formulations of Quantum Mechanics. In this talk I will review the basics of this formulation and how the work of my Master's thesis fits into this framework.
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Mr Pedro Ninhos (IST)02/07/2019, 16:45
Periodic drives have been receiving renewed attention as the building blocks of new phases of matter such as topological non-trivial states and time crystals. The dynamics of these new non-equilibrium phases is quite different from their equilibrium counterparts. When isolated, the evolution is strongly dependent on its initial condition. Yet, it is hard to imagine that such a regime can be...
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Ms Rita Gonçalves02/07/2019, 17:00
There are several mathematical models describing bacterial population growth, dependent of one or of several resources. These models apply to communities of single species and in general they describe well the short-term evolution of these communities. However, nature is more complex and species depend on different nutrients for growth. In this context, more complex growth phenomena emerge. In...
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Mr Sergio Caramona02/07/2019, 17:15
The goal of this work is to understand some turbulence mechanisms through the radial profile analysis of quantities related to anomalous transport on plasmas, with special focus on the measure of the vorticity at ISTTOK tokamak. The vorticity is a local measure of the velocity field circulation in the plasma fluid, which plays a key role in the transport of energy and particles. The...
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