LUTAMath - Ph.D. Program

The Lisbon-University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. Program in Mathematics (LUTAMath) is a joint Ph.D. program between the Mathematics Departments of the three Lisbon public universities (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and the University of Texas at Austin.

This internationally attractive graduate program is organized along the following guidelines:

1. Students enrolled must satisfy the requirements of all of the participating universities. Therefore, upon completion of these academic requirements, the student will be allowed to submit his thesis both at the participating Portuguese universities and at UT-Austin and the student will be able to obtain a degree in mathematics from the participating institutions.
2. There is a long history of scientific interaction between the Department of Mathematics at UT-Austin and Portuguese universities namely in the areas of applied mathematics and partial differential equations. Furthermore, both UT-Austin and the involved Portuguese universities have strong and complimentary groups in geometry and topology providing the framework for strong intellectual cooperation to promote high quality scientific collaborations and research. In the near-term, collaborations will also include other areas such as mathematical finance and algebra.
3. Portuguese and UT-Austin students should be involved in these cooperative research activities as soon as possible so that they can obtain the most benefit from these bi-national collaborations.

Research activity resulting from this cooperative program should be monitored by established research centers at the participating universities and which employ the involved researchers including the following key Portuguese faculty and institutions: Rui Loja Fernandes and Diogo Gomes (IST); Luisa Mascarenhas and Luís Trabucho (FCT-UNL); José Francisco Rodrigues and Jean-Claude Zambrini (FC-UL).