Day 1 - 22nd July (Monday)

08:30 - 09:00: Registration 
09:00 - 09:30: Opening session: Dr. Carlos Duarte (Vice-President of CIG), Prof. Virgílio Cruz Machado (Dean of FCT NOVA), Prof. Fabio Chalub (President of the Department of Mathematics), Prof. António Malheiro (Coordinator of CMA)

09:30 - 10:30: Invited Talk:  Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) "A homogenization result in the gradient theory of phase transitions"

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break 
11:00 - 12:30: Contributed Talks: 

• Elvira Zappale (Dept. of Industrial Engineering University of Salerno, Italy) "Optimal Design Problems” 
• Valeria Barra (University of Colorado Boulder ,USA) “Efficient representation of high-order operators for the numerical solution of PDEs”      
•  Maryam Ghalati (CDRSP, Polythechnic Institute of Leiria) “Modelling heat transfer and phase change in SLM Additive Manufacturing Process” 

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Invited Talk: Fernanda Cipriano (CMA, FCT NOVA) “Optimal control of stochastic second grade fluids”

15:00 - 16:00: Invited Talk: Sílvia Barbeiro (CMUC, Universidade de Coimbra) “Learning optimized cross-diffusion reaction systems” 

16:00 - 16:30: Poster Session and Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00: Contributed Talks: 

• Colette Guillopé (Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Mathématiques Appliquées, CNRS et Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)  “Well-posedness for a higher-order, nonlinear, dispersive equation: a new approach”
• Cláudia Neves (University of Reading, UK) “Multivariate Max-stable Processes with Application to the Forecasting of Multiple Hazards”
•  Dimitra Kouloumpou (Technological Education Institute of Peloponnese, Antikalamos, Greece) “Brownian Motion on a n-Dimensional Sphere ”

Day 2 - 23rd July (Tuesday)

09:30 - 10:30: Invited Talk: Teresa Monteiro Fernandes (CMAF-CIO, Universidade de Lisboa) “An overview on D-modules with a view on Riemann-Hilbert correspondences”

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break 
11:00 - 12:30: Contributed Talks: 

• Vanda Lourenço (CMA, FCT NOVA) "Robust genomic prediction in plant breeding” 
• Alexandra Moura (CEMAPRE, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa) “Optimal Reinsurance of Dependent Risks”    
•  Andreia Teixeira (CINTESIS, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto)  “The role of mathematics in biomedical sciences” 

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Invited Talk: Maria do Rosário de Pinho (Universidade do Porto) “Optimal Control: from theory to applications and back”

15:00 - 16:00: Special Invited Talk: Elena Resmerita (EWM representative, University of Klagenfurt, Austria)

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee Break

16:30 - 18:00: Panel discussion: math gender gap 
18:00 - 19:00: Lecture: Luis Trabucho (FCT NOVA)
"Women in Mathematics - History and Portraits"

20:00 - 23:00: Conference Dinner

Day 3- 24th July (Wednesday)

09:30 - 10:30: Invited Talk: Margarida Melo (CMUC, Universidade de Coimbra and Roma Tre) “Compactifications of algebro-geometric moduli spaces and tropicalizations”

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break 
11:00 - 12:00: Contributed Talks: 

• Rosário Fernandes and Susana Palheira (CMA, FCT NOVA) "(0; 1)-matrices and the problems of distribution” 
• Liliana Silva (CMUP, Universidade do Porto) “Heteroclinic Dynamics in GameTheory"    

12:00 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:00: Invited Talk: Lucile Vandembroucq (Universidade do Minho) “Motion planning and topology”

15:00 - 16:00: Invited Talk: Patrícia Gonçalves (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa) “Deriving fractional PDEs from microscopic stochastic models”

16:00 - 16:10: Closing session

16:10 - 16:40: Coffee-Break