Cross Talks UT Austin Portugal

In our fifth episode, we talked with Bruno Figueiredo (Co-CEO at Graphenest) and Deji Akinwande (professor at the University of Texas at Austin). They explained how graphene is fueling their innovative solution to solve electromagnetic interference.

In our fourth episode, we engage in a conversation with Filipe Fernandes (University of Coimbra), Gregory Rodin (The University of Texas at Austin) and Filippo Mangolini (The University of Texas at Austin).

In our third episode, we engage in a conversation with Alfredo Silva, Cláudia Lopes and Nélson Azevedo. They explained how nanomaterials could help patients with neuromuscular diseases.

In this 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.

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.