UT Austin Portugal Program Newsletter | Season's Greetings (original) (raw)

"It came from an ideia that I had several years ago." Professor Robert A. Peterson talks about the UT Austin Portugal Program, his thoughts on the Annual Conference and having the fist Portuguese supercomputer, Bob, named after him.

Did you know in 2019...?

1. The UT Austin Portugal Program received over 50 cooperation profiles from researchers and faculty Portugal and UT Austin, within the scope of the ERP call?

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The Interdisciplinary Earth Observation: Land, Ocean and Atmosphere workshop ran out its available seats in 24 hours?

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The Program's Facebook page has increased its number of followers in 200%?

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Our new website, launched in May, was visited by users from 133 countries?

5. UT AustinCockrell School of Engineering'sProfessor John E. Goodenough received this year's Nobel in Chemistry, for the development of lithium-ion batteries?

6. Actor Matthew McConaughey was appointed Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at UT Austin's Moody College of Communication?

New Challenges in Medical Physics

The UT Austin Portugal Program organizes its first event in Medical Physics next week, at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra (FMUC).

With speakers from different research fields in Portugal, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the German Cancer Research Center (DFFZ), the conference hopes to serve as a stage to facilitate scientific and professional networking opportunities under different topics such

as innovative approaches in radiotherapy, targeted radionuclide therapy and proton therapy.

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