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LIAAD highlighted in the International Congress of Mathematicians by Indian press

The research work carried out by Alberto Pinto, Vice-Director of the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support (LIAAD), was recently highlighted in the online version of the Indian Telegraph, the highest selling newspaper in Eastern India. This report followed the researcher’s presentations at the International Congress of Mathematicians - ICM 2010, which took place in India, a worldwide mathematics congress that takes place every four years and where the "Fields" medals are awarded.

This article highlighted the work carried out by Stanley Osher, of the University of California, Philip Kumar Maini, of the University of Oxford, and Alberto Pinto of the University of Porto. Alberto Pinto is the co-author of a book in the Dynamic Systems area, published in the series “Springer Monographs in Mathematics”, and co-editor of two numbers that will be published in the series “Springer Proceedings in Mathematics”.

Together with his research team at LIAAD, this researcher is responsible for discovering a pattern, previously found in Physics-Statistics models, in stock market movements. This pattern appears in several other natural phenomena, for instance, in the fluctuations in river heights and flow and and in fluctuations in sunspot numbers, thus revealing a universal character.

The article also highlighted the dynamic system models developed to study the immune system and game theory models applied to human behaviour so as to understand how small changes in human preferences – psychological, social and economic – may originate or influence sudden and deep changes in the individual and collective behaviour.