Forum Numerica - The digital world seminar series

About Forum Numerica

Forum Numerica is the seminar series of the Academy of Excellence "Networks, Information and Digital society", dedicated to the digital sciences and their impact on the society and humans.

Upcoming

  • 30/01/2025, 2pm-3pm - António Ravara (NOVA University, Lisbon): Most Cybersecurity vulnerabilities are software bugs! - More information soon...
 

2024/2025 call for speakers

We invite speakers for a 1h-seminar usually on Thursday afternoon, in the broad fields of networking, digital science and digital society. As a researcher or professor, you might want to invite a (future?) collaborator or you may even volunteer to present your research. All suggestions are welcome! Just send a name, we’ll take care of the rest. Find out more...

Organization

Coordinated by Pr. Jean Martinet, the Forum Numerica committee is composed by researchers, whose expertise cover the three research fields targeted by our seminars: Networking, Digital Science and Digital Society. A list of identified topics per pillar and their representatives follows.

THREE THEMATIC PILLARS

Forum Numerica seminars cover 3 thematic pillars:

Networking

Topics

  • Internet Measurement & Crowdsourcing
  • Software Defined Networks; Virtualization; Cloud & Data Centers
  • IoT; sensors
    • Network protocols & radio
  • Antennas, low-power devices, wearable devices, network infrastructure
  • Theoretical foundations
    • Network science
    • Graph theory, algorithms
    • Stochastic optimization
    • Signal processing

Committee Members

Digital Sciences

Topics

  • Massive Data Processing
  • Compressive Sensing
  • Big Data
  • Data Mining
  • Cryptography
  • Formal Methods
  • Bio-informatics
  • Languages & Models
  • Web

Committee Members

Digital Society

Topics

  • Digitization
  • Social Networks
  • New Economy
  • Innovative IoT-based business models

Committee Members

Forum Numerica attendance is valorized by your Doctoral school

We welcome your presence as PhD students! Come and meet peers and experts in your research field and beyond.

  • ED STIC: participation in 4 Forum Numerica seminars earns you 1 ECTS - 1 hour of training per seminar
  • ED DESPEG: 1h30 / seminar
  • ED SHAL: 2h / seminar
Ask for your certificate of attendance at the end of each seminar!