A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon [Paperback]

This book celebrates the 75th anniversary of The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). It provides a compelling picture of current state-of-art research at UTL. It contains the edited version of the invited lectures from a two day Symposium and brings together a comprehensive summary of high quality research contributions across basic and applied sciences. A broad spectrum of topics is covered reflecting UTLs worldwide recognition.

The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) is celebrating this year its 75th anniversary. Being a jubilee occasion, a full program of events took place, including a two-day Symposium on the research at UTL. This Symposium addressed the state-of-art in major areas of excellence at UTL. Science, technology and innovation and the way universities and society in general, create, use and disseminate knowledge have gained a growing signi?cance over the last decades. UTL no doubt embeds a relevant potential of excellence in different areas of research in basic and applied sciences, which bears its development on the basis of a research university model. This book contains the edited version of the invited lectures that were delivered by prominent researchers at UTL. This book brings together in a review manner a comprehensive summary of high quality research contri- tions across basic and applied sciences. The contributing papers are organized around the following major areas:  Emergent areas (Nanosciences, Quantic Computations and Infor- tion, Risk and Volatility in Financial Markets);  Basic Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Materials);  Social Sciences, Economics and Management Sciences;  Life Sciences and Biotechnology;  Engineering and Technologies  Nature, Environment and Sustainability;  Public Health, Food Quality and Safety;  Health and Sport Sciences;  Urbanism, Transports, Architecture, Arts and Design. The transdisciplinary nature of most areas aims to stress a compelling sense of purpose in thl“$