Short Biographies
daniela velichová
Doc. RNDr. Daniela Velichová, CSc., mim. prof., professor of applied mathematics, is the head of the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. In addition to teaching various maths and geometry courses at all three levels of university study, she works also as active scientist in the fields of geometric modelling and differential geometry of curves and surfaces. She was and still is involved in many European programmes on teaching mathematics for engineering students, and currently she is chairing the Steering committe of the SEFI Working Group on Mathematics in Engineering Education that is primarily dealing with innovative teaching methodologies and scenarios for maths courses on engineering study programmes at European universities sefi.htw-aalen.de . Her activities are also focused on supporting young people, especially women, to enter the kingdom of Mathematics, as member of the steering committe of international association Europen Women in Mathematics www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/ .
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jaime carvalho e silva
Ph. D. in Pure Mathematics (Analysis) by the Universities of Paris 6, France and Coimbra, Portugal. Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Member of the research Center CMUC (University of Coimbra). Invited Professor at Arizona State University, USA (1994 and 2001). Teaches Mathematics for Engineers, and Didactics and History of Mathematics to future teachers of Mathematics. Coordinates the Center “Softciencias” giving support to teachers on the use of technology in schools. Member of the coordinating committee of the National Seminar on the History of Mathematics (Portugal). Author of textbooks of Mathematics for Secondary Schools and University. Coordinated the technical task force that wrote the mathematics syllabus for secondary schools in Portugal (1997 and 2003). Member of the Executive Committee of ICMI-International Commission on Mathematical Instruction from 2006 to 2009 and Secretary General for the period 2010-2012.
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jORGE NUNO silva
Ph. D. in Mathematics from UC Berkely and a Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He is a member of Centro Interuniversitário de História da Ciência e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT). He teaches two courses of his creation - History of Board Games and History of Recreational Mathematics. He is President of Associação Ludus and Managing Editor of the Board Games Studies Journal.
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Morten Brekke
Background in Theoretical astrophysics. 25 years of teaching experience in Mathematics and Physics at Faculty of Engineering and Science, Agder University. Project leader of ‘parAbel’, a national project wich was funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training from 2000 – 2009. ‘parAbel’ developed digital, web-based learning tools in all Mathematics and Physics courses in upper secondary education in Norway. Ten years as a Study Coordinator of STEM-courses at our Faculty.
My interest in teaching and research is based on the use of
- Computer Aided Assessment - CAA
- Video lectures and short videos (Flipped classroom)
- Visualization and Simulation
From traditional lectures to “almost” no lectures at all. Grading with CAA – tools.
I am coordinator of two networking groups in MatRIC - Centre for excellence in Education (http://www.matric.no/):
- Digital Assessment. This network connects university level mathematics teachers who are using, or thinking about using, CAA to support their students' learning.
- Video. This network connects university level mathematics teachers who are working on the production of video resources for teaching and learning mathematics (streaming, tutorial support, flipped classroom, blended learning).
MatRIC - Centre for Research, Innovation and Coordination of Mathematics Teaching is a learning community working for excellence in teaching mathematics in universities.
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amélia caldeira is currently an Assistant Professor at Mathematics Department of Institute of Engineering of Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP/P.Porto). She is a researcher in SYSTEC - Research Centre for Systems and Technologies, ISR - Institute of Systems and Robotics and in LEMA - Mathematical Engineering Laboratory of ISEP.
Her research interests are in the areas of control and optimization, having a particular interest in nonlinear and constrained problems, optimal control and model predictive control. She is interested in optimal control applications, namely, in robotics, nature and health fields.
She is also interested in innovative teaching methodologies for mathematics and engineering teaching. Since 2012, she has been coordinating several projects that are dynamically streamlined to motivate students to mathematics and engineering learning. Namely, Matemática Fora de Portas - Outdoor Mathematics, Matemática Fora de Horas - Out-of-hours Mathematics, and Matemática, por onde andas? - Mathematics, where are you?. (see https://www2.isep.ipp.pt/matematicaforadeportas/)
Besides that, she is focused and involved in development work in the field of Outdoor Mathematics, namely in math trails. She is involved in an European programme -EU project MoMaTrE - MOBILE MATH TRAILS IN EUROPE
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ana júlia viamonte is currently a Coordinating Professor at Mathematics Department of ISEP/P.Porto, and she is a researcher in LEMA - Mathematical Engineering Laboratory of ISEP.
Her research interests are in the areas of Numerical Linear Algebra and in Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Mathematics. She works in some projects that are aimed at to motivate students to mathematics learning. Such as, Matemática Fora de Portas - Outdoor Mathematics, Jogos Matemáticos – Mathematics Games and, she is also involved in an European program – project MoMaTrE - MOBILE MATH TRAILS IN EUROPE that intends to develop work in the field of Outdoor Mathematics, namely in math trails.
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Cristina Torres is currently Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department and member of CEOS.PP at the ISCAP-P.Porto, Portugal. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. Current topics of research: Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and Time Series Analysis, particularly, Multivariate integer-valued data analysis.
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eva morais has been a lecturer at University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro since 2000, where she teaches courses of Statistics and Experimental Design. She is a member at CMAT-UTAD (University of Minho’s CMAT Polo) and her main research interests are related to the study of methods used to solve partial differential equations in financial pricing models and she is also interested in the critical thinking in the higher education research field (email: emorais@utad.pt).
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ken brown has a Masters Degrees in Control Systems and e-learning, he is a Lecturer in School of Engineering (Letterkenny Institute of Technology, Ireland), PhD candidate studying online assessment. Author of 20 publications and 4 monographs. Research interests: the reality of assessment using automated techniques for engineering mathematics, new educational technologies and their pedagogical integration in higher education.
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Lurdes Babo is senior lecturer in the Mathematics department and member of CEOS.PP at ISCAP-P.Porto, Portugal. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Porto. Her research interests include Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Time Series Analysis, Simulation and quasi-Monte Carlo methods.
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maria manuel nascimento has been an assistant professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) since 1985, in Vila Real, Portugal, where she teaches Statistics and Operations Research. She is an integrated member as a researcher of CIDTFF (Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in the Education of Trainers, CIDTFF, from University of Aveiro, and in its Lab-DCT/UTAD, the laboratory of CIDTFF at UTAD). Her main interests are teaching Statistics and its Attitudinal and Didactical research issues, as well as the Ethnomathematics research field. In addition, the critical thinking research field and in its connections to the statistical thinking are other of her research interests. Maria M. Nascimento is a member of the Portuguese Engineers Society (OE) and of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (SPEE) (e-mail: mmsn@utad.pt).
