Academics

Graduate studies

Doctoral Programmes

The Department of Mathematics offers programs covering a broad range of topics leading to a Doctoral Degree. Candidates are admitted to either the

• Doctoral Programme in  Mathematics, or the
• Doctoral Programme in Statistics and Stochastic Processes.

The Department of Mathematics, the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering, jointly offer the

• Doctoral Programme in Information Security.

Department Faculty members participate in Doctoral Programmes sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Two such programmes are:

• Doctoral Programme in Physics and Mathematics of Information,
• LisMath — the Lisbon Mathematics PhD Programme.

Both regularly open calls for Fellowships funded by FCT.

Master's

At the Master's level, the Mathematics Department offers the Master in Applied Mathematics and Computation, with 4 specialization profiles:

• Mathematics
• Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics of Computation
• Probability and Mathematical Statistics

The Mathematics Department offers also:

• Together with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Master on Engineering and Data Science.
• Together with the  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and in cooperation with the University of Lisbon Law School and the Naval Academy, the Master on Information Security and Law in Cyberspace.

Undergraduate Studies

The first cycle of university studies in Mathematics offered by the Department is the

• Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computation

Project and dissertation themes

Interested students can find lists of possible project and dissertation themes in the relevant pages of the fénix system:

• Licenciatura
• Master
• PhD

Final degree examinations

The Department provides a calendar of Doctoral and Agregação final examinations. Agregação is a Portuguese academic title which is usually considered as a pre-requisite for Full Professor positions.

Faculty members and researchers

The Department of Mathematics has near one hundred faculty members and researchers making it the largest university mathematics department in Portugal.

Scientific areas

All courses offered in the the various degrees in mathematics are structured according with the official IST scientific areas for Mathematics:

• Algebra and topology
• Differential equations and dynamical systems
• Geometry
• Logic and computation
• Mathematical-physics
• Numerical analysis and applied analysis
• Probability and statistics
• Real and functional analysis

Academics related activities

The Department has created or supports several mathematics related educational initiatives:

• Professor Jaime Campos Ferreira Prize
• The LMAC students Diagonal Seminar
• Mathematics Winter School
• Mathematics at Técnico: Come meet the best jobs in the world...
• Mathematics, Statistics and Computation Summer School.
• UTL Mathematical Routes
• Didactical texts
• Ciência Viva
  • 2002/2003.
  • 1999/2000
  • Outros anos
• e-escola portal
• Mathematical Problems from several large enrollment undergraduate courses at IST. Faculty members can download a zip format file after authentication to create online homeworks in fénix.
• Video, recorded with openeya software, of classes of some of our mathematics undergraduate courses.
• Online courses offered through the MOOC Técnico platform.

Support resources

• Mathematics library
• LabMat, the LMAC and MMA computer lab.