12th Congress of the Portuguese Committee of URSI ''Artificial intelligence and the radio sciences''

On 14 December 2018, the Portuguese Committee of URSI (International Union of Radio Science) held its twelfth Congress, under the theme "Artificial intelligence and the radio sciences", at Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Foundation) in Lisbon.

Contacts

ANACOM - Portuguese Committee of URSI
Av. José Malhoa, 12
1099-017 Lisboa (Lisbon)
Portugal
Phone: 217211000
Fax: 217211006
email: ursi.por@anacom.ptmailto:ursi.por@anacom.pt

Helena Prazeres
email: helena.prazeres@anacom.ptmailto:helena.prazeres@anacom.pt

9:00 Registration

9:30 Opening session | Auditorium

João Cadete de Matos, Chairman of the Board of Directors, ANACOM

Guest Speaker: Arlindo Oliveira, Chair IST

10:15 Artificial Intelligence in the society of the future | Auditorium

Moderator: Paula Meira Lourenço, Member of the Board of Directors, ANACOM

Speakers:

 Digital intelligence and health
Henrique Martins, Shared Services, Ministry of Health

 Radio City
Miguel Castro Neto, Universidade Nova

11:00 Coffee -break and poster display

11:30 Research in the context of artificial intelligence

Moderator: Sandro Mendonça, Member of the Board of Directors, ANACOM

Speakers:

• Cooperation between Networks and Artificial Intelligence
  Susana Sargento, Universidade de Aveiro
• Using AI for Adaptive Wireless Systems
  Ana Aguiar, Universidade do Porto
• AI and Machine Learning in Medical Image Analysis
  Mário Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico / IT

12:30 Artificial Intelligence and Spectrum Management

Speakers:

 Cognitive intelligence in spectrum management: from theory to practice
Jaime Afonso, ANACOM

 Artificial Intelligence in spectrum management
Guest Speaker: Heikki Kokkinen, Fairspectrum

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Scientific Session (Best Student Paper Award) - part 1

Moderators:

• António Topa, IT
• Pedro Cruz, Controlar
• Sérgio Matos, ISCTE

Speakers:

 Assessment of a multireflectometers positioning system for DEMO plasmas
Emanuel Alves Ricardo, Instituto Superior Técnico

 Neural Networks for Plasma Tomography in Nuclear Fusion Reactors
Diogo Godinho Soares de Carvalho, Instituto Superior Técnico

 Classification of Microwave Imaging Signals to Assist Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Daniela Marques Godinho, Faculty of Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa.

 Simulation of MIMO channel for 5G in millimetre waves
Filipa Fernandes, Instituto Superior Técnico

 Trapping light in open nanocavities with spatial dispersion
Solange Silva, Universidade de Coimbra

15:45 Coffee -break and poster display

16:15 Scientific session (Best Student Paper Award) - part 2

Moderators:

• António Topa, IT
• Pedro Cruz, Controlar
• Sérgio Matos, ISCTE

Speakers:

 A new Antenna for DVB-T
Pedro Mostardinha, Universidade de Aveiro

 A Drone Design Analysis based on the Low Cost Market Segment
João Pedro Fialho Morais, Instituto Superior Técnico

 Development of a Coverage Visualization Platform for 5th Generation Mobile Networks
Eduardo Jorge Pedroso, Instituto Superior Técnico

 A Regressive Capacity Model for 4G Mobile Networks Using Real Performance Data
Diogo Santos Ribeiro Parracho, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Lisbon

• Adaptation surface based on meta-materials for microwave imaging
  Ana Luísa Jorge Anes, Faculty of Engineering, Universidade do Porto

17:30 Awards ceremony and Closure of proceedings

• Award of the Best Student Paper Award 2018
  João Miguel Coelho, Member of the Board of Directors, ANACOM
• Closure of proceedings
  Luísa Mendes, President of the Portuguese Committee of URSI

Consult:

 Programme (PDF 484 KB)

Language:

Portuguese and English.
[Interpretation service not available]

Venue:

Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Foundation)
Rua do Instituto Industrial, 16
1200-225 Lisbon
Portugal
Tel.: 213935000
Fax: 213968849
e-mail: info@fpc.ptmailto:info@fpc.pt

GPS coordinates:

38.707818 | -9.150462

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