Forthcoming
19/06/2025 — 22/06/2025
Principia Analogiae 2025
Alameda campus, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Analogical reasoning is a remarkable human capability, allowing us to adapt to novel situations - an ability that current AI systems still lack.
Much research has suggested that analogies are key to non-brittle systems that can adapt to new domains. Attempts to attack this problem have been fragmented, with different groups focusing on narrow aspects of the problem, each group using their own separate evaluation metrics. We believe that the lack of unifying foundational mathematical frameworks and evaluation benchmarks has been limiting progress in analogy research.
With this conference we aim to bring together leading experts from various research and applied fields to join forces, share perspectives, and collectively define the research agenda for the immediate future. Recognizing the need for foundational work in this area, we seek unifying frameworks, methodologies, and basic principles that will serve as the cornerstone for future advancements.
Principia Analogiae 2025 will involve keynote presentations, followed by working groups to tackle several challenges related to analogy theory and applications. These will be soon announced.
The conference is free of charge but registration is mandatory and places are limited. See the conference site for instructions.
Past academic defenses...
News
15/02/2024
Patrícia Gonçalves, Schramm Lecture

Patrícia Gonçalves, a full professor at the IST Department of Mathematics, was the 2024 Schramm Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society at the most important event in the field of Probability, the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, held from 12 to 16 August in Bochum, Germany.
14/07/2023
Discover Math@Técnico
Hugo Tavares, vice-president of the Mathematics Department, tells us about Math@Técnico.
28/10/2024
Team Europe wins the International Cybersecurity Challenge 2024!
Mariana Rio Costa, a LMAC student, is a member of Team Europe, the winner of his year’s edition of the International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) that took place from 28 October to 1 November, bringing together in Santiago, Chile, some of the best cybersecurity talent in the world to compete and test cybersecurity skills.
During the three-day event, players competed in solving complex cybersecurity puzzles, involving classic Jeopardy challenges such as cryptography, reverse engineering and web exploitation, and a competition in Attack and Defense, where players are requested to defend vulnerable services through patching while exploiting vulnerabilities of other teams and eventually steal flags. Congratulations to Team Europe and to Mariana Rio Costa, LMAC student, who is part of Team Europe.
29/07/2024
New ERASMUS Mundus Joint Masters MATHS-DISC
The MATHS-DISC consortium, consisting of Università di Verona, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Igor Sikorsky Polytechnic Institute Kiev, Universidade de Lisboa and Université Grenoble Alpes, and the partner university NTNU Trondheim, was successful with its proposal for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) in Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Data Science together with more than 20 partners from leading industry and research centers (e. g. Siemens, Intel, Bosch, Bayer, d-fine, uRoboptics, Vodafone Ukraine, IDOM, ENGYS, Otto Bock, DLR, Terranova, NeuronsLab, Computer Solutions SA, Royal IHC, …) from different sectors and from all over Europe.
This novel EMJM will have a total budget of about 5 million Euros in funding from the European Union over six years. The program is also supported by the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) and the European Network of Mathematics for Industry and Innovation (EU-MATHS-IN) to train the PhD students of tomorrow and to establish interdisciplinary networks to share best practices at European level to overcome geographical and scientific fragmentation.
The program is scheduled to start in the winter semester 2025/26 and applications should be possible from February 2025. For more general information about this EMJM, please contact Prof. Cláudia Nunes.
Talks
12/02/2025 14:00
Jean Douçot
From linear to nonlinear differential equations, via topology
12/02/2025 16:00
Lkhamsuren Altangerel
On gap functions for equilibrium problems
13/02/2025 13:30
Mitchell A. Taylor
Stable phase retrieval
13/02/2025 15:00
Alessandra Occelli
The polynuclear growth model in half space with external sources.
13/02/2025 16:00
Giuseppe Cannizaro
Superdiffusive Central Limit Theorem for the critical Stochastic Burgers Equation
18/02/2025 15:00
Ana Rita Pires
Infinite staircases in ball packing problems
19/02/2025 17:00
Pablo Pedregal
A variational interpretation of the Banach contraction principle and its surprising consequences for Differential Equations
25/02/2025 15:00
Stephan de Bièvre
To be announced
27/02/2025 15:00
Ali Suri
Stochastic Euler-Poincaré Reduction for Central Extension