Podcast "Cross Talks" - UT Austin Portugal (original) (raw)

Nanotechnologies

Cross Talks #11 – NanoCatRed – Novel metallic NANOparticles on NANOstructured supports for oxyanion CATalytic REDuction in water

July 2023

In our eleventh episode Salomé Soares (Assistant Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto), Sérgio Silva (Founder & CEO of ADVENTECH) and Simon Humphrey (Professor at the UT Austin’s College of Natural Sciences) shared more about their project called NanoCatRed. The group is developing nanoparticles that break down harmful inorganic contaminants, from water. Through a chemical reaction, these nanoparticles generate harmless products, thus reducing the health risks that inorganic contaminants impose on humans and the environment.

Nanotechnologies

Cross Talks #9 – Soft4Sense: Smart Surfaces for Reliable Tooling Integration

February 2023

In our nineth episode, we talked with Bruno Martins, Carlos Patacas (Researchers at Instituto Pedro Nunes) and Rui Huang (Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering) about their project Soft4Sense. The three researchers explain how they are creating smart surfaces to monitor thin film layers deposition and become part of the Industry 4.0.

Nanotechnologies

Cross Talks #4 – MCTool21: Using nanotechnology to build the tools of the future

October 2021

In our fourth episode, we engage in a conversation with Filipe Fernandes (professor at the University of Coimbra), Gregory Rodin (professor at The University of Texas at Austin) and Filippo Mangolini (assistant professor at The University of Texas at Austin). They talked about the research behind the project MCTool21:Manufacturing of cutting tools for the 21st century: from nano-scale material design to numerical process simulation.

Nanotechnologies

Cross Talks #3 – NanoStim: Nanotechnology-enabled wearables for neuromuscular rehabilitation

September 2021

In our third episode, we engage in a conversation with Alfredo Silva (Senior Consultant at IncreaseTime), Cláudia Lopes (Researcher at the Center of Physics of the Universities of Minho and Porto) and Nélson Azevedo (Physiotherapist and Physiotherapy Professor at Instituto Superior de Saúde). They explained how nanomaterials could help patients with neuromuscular diseases.

Medical Physics

Cross Talks #2 – TOF-PET: The Challenges of Proton Therapy

May 2021

In our second episode, the Program engages in a 20-minute conversation with Stefaan Tavernier (PETsys electronics, Portugal) and Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin, USA) about the advantages and disadvantages of proton therapy in relation to other existing therapies, its challenges as well as the TOF-PET project’s envisioned solution.

Advanced Computing

Cross Talks #1 – BigHPC: Managing and monitoring HPC and Big Data workloads

March 2021

In this first episode, the Program engages in a 30-minute conversation with Todd Evans (TACC, USA), João Paulo (INESC TEC/UMinho, Portugal) and Bruno Antunes (Wavecom, Portugal) about the pervasiveness of the advanced computing area, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, the next generation of HPC supercomputers and the challenges and game-changing nature of BigHPC, a UT Austin Portugal’s Strategic Research Project that cuts across all those topics.