Chamada candidaturas protocolo CERN/IST

25 Julho 2017, 11:25 - Maria Lucilia Gonçalves Abreu

Na sequência do acordo de colaboração estabelecido entre o IST e o CERN, estudantes e recém-graduados do Técnico têm a oportunidade de se candidatar a membros associados do CERN por um período extensível até 3 anos, onde poderão colaborar em projetos de diferentes áreas de engenharia, nomeadamente, electrotécnica, informática, mecânica e física.

Esta oportunidade única oferece um importante complemento à formação universitária dos alunos, através de uma experiência enriquecedora em diversos projectos de investigação em curso numa instituição de renome internacional como o CERN, usufruindo ainda de uma remuneração mensal muito atractiva.

Mais informação em: http://cern.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Prova de CAT

25 Julho 2017, 10:46 - Fátima Sampaio

Candidate: Fernando Pedro Pascoal dos Santos n.º 64757/D

Title: Collective dynamics of cooperation

Date: 25/07/2017

Time: 11h

Location: Sala 1.38, Taguspark, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Advisor: Professor Francisco João Duarte Cordeiro Correia dos Santos

Co-advisors: Professora Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva and Professor Jorge Manuel dos Santos Pacheco

Abstract: Explaining cooperation is one of the biggest challenges of the XXIst century. Understanding its evolutionary dynamics is fundamental to comprehend the origin of societies, institutions and the own human nature. Simultaneously, cooperation models may explain the sparing engagement in tackling contemporary problems – such as climate change, international conflict, corruption or economic poverty and inequality – providing a toolkit to experiment effective policies and novel interaction paradigms. In this thesis, we employ computational and mathematical methods (inspired in evolutionary game theory and artificial intelligence learning algorithms) to explore collective dynamics in three very specific domains that, hopefully, allow us to contribute to the wide challenge of understanding cooperation. First, we explore which social norms – here the rules that classify behaviours as good or bad – are able to promote cooperation. The formal link between social norms and cooperation is established with models of indirect reciprocity (IR). IR models comprise individuals who adopt heuristics for deciding to cooperate or defect based on reputations that spread in a population after each interaction. Second, we will explore cooperation in the context of multiplayer ultimatum games where, besides dealing with a continuous strategy space, we consider group interactions in which individuals can jointly sacrifice their earnings to immediately punish selfish opponents. Third, we will explore the scenario of asymmetric games of cooperation. These are useful to model the multi-sectorial interactions that occur in our society, for instance, when public, private and civil agents take part in socio-political dilemmas.