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In March 2010, 22 technology transfer professionals attended a UTEN workshop at the New University of Lisbon.
Monica Mendes describes her experiences.
Pennycook presented on the first day. The event took place in Portugal April 7-12, 2010.
Kathleen Tyner presented An Array of Play: Games for Living and Learning at VS Games 2010.
In March 2010, Andrew Garrison co-taught documentary and sound courses at the University of Porto.
Professors from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Coimbra collaborate in the mathematics section of the UT Austin | Portugal program.
ISDT is an annual intensive program on the democratic transformation of society through digital media. ISDT 2010 will be held July 25-30 in Porto, Portugal.
From April 13 through May 11, 2010, the Austin Film Society will show a series of six films from Portugal.
Project SIMCARD involves large-scale computer simulations and a close connection between mathematics, scientific computing, and clinical experiments, to work on medical imaging and numerical simulations of complex bioengineering problems.
UT Austin filmmaker and ZON Script Development Lab instructor Steve Mims creates gripping movies with a new generation of low-cost equipment.
UPDATE: Natalie Fenton's lecture at FCSH/UNL has been postponed due to travel disruptions.
The CloudViews 2010 conference will convene IT professionals, researchers, and service providers in the cloud computing field.
Sound and video artist Maile Colbert will discuss her work on 15 April, 2010, at FCT/UNL in Monte Caparica.
The International Symposium on Online Journalism is scheduled for April 23 and 24 at UT Austin and will also be webcast live.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), the UT Department of Art & Art History and the Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) will present an evening of photography and video works by Austin artists.
Diogo's goal is to develop a new set of programming constructs that promote a stronger separation of concerns in parallel computing. He wants to hide the complexity of parallel programming from programmers and identify the concerns that can be specified as separate modules.
CoLab researcher Tomás Henriques has won the 2010 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for his Double Slide Controller, an electronic instrument featuring two slides inspired by the trombone.
In collaboration with the UT Austin|Portugal program, a call has been announced for a postdoctoral fellowship to focus on the computational modeling of cerebral aneurysm progression. The application deadline is April 30, 2010.
Marta Ferraz focuses on The Emotive Brains Theory for her Ph.D. research. She is a CoLab student and creative director at Atomic Designers.
Jorge Figueira, Carla Mascarenhas, Alexandra Marques, Filipe Castro, and Raquel Luísa Santos de Jesus Sá spend the spring in Texas.