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| | == Biography == |
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| == Overview ==
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| The IEEE Portugal Section covers the entire territory of continental Portugal and its islands, and belongs to [[Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, & Africa) History|Region 8]] of IEEE (Europe, Middle East and Africa). It was established in 1981.
| | Fowler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1933 from Ohio State University, and obtained his PhD in 1936 from the California Institute of Technology. He was immediately appointed to the staff, serving as professor of physics there from 1946 to 1970; he was Institute Professor from 1970 and professor emeritus from 1982. |
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| * [http://www.ieee-pt.org/ '''IEEE Portugal Section Website''']
| | Fowler worked mainly in nuclear physics, especially on the nuclear reactions that occur in stars and by which energy is produced and the elements synthesized, on nuclear forces, and on nuclear spectroscopy. In 1957 Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, Fred Hoyle, and Fowler published a key paper dealing with the problem of the creation of the chemical elements in the interiors of stars. They were aware that the hot big bang proposed by George Gamow could produce nothing heavier than helium. Clearly the elements were produced later. They therefore had to identify nuclear reactions that could occur at the immense temperatures of stellar cores; the type of process changed, and hence changed the elements being produced, as the temperature increased and conditions altered inside the stars. A later and fuller version was published by Fowler and Hoyle in their Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars and Supernovae (1965). |
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| == Section establishment ==
| | Fowler subsequently worked on such fundamental questions as the amount of helium and deuterium in the universe, the answers to such questions having profound implications for knowledge of the age and future development of the universe. |
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| *[[Media:Portugal_Section_petition_letter.pdf|Petition letter]] with list of petitioners, dated 1981, requesting the establishment of the Portugal Section of IEEE.
| | For his work on nuclear astrophysics, Fowler shared the 1983 [[Nobel Prize|Nobel Prize]] for physics with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. |
| *[[Media:IEEE_Geographic_Unit_Organizing_Document_-_Portugal.pdf|Congratulatory letter]] from IEEE confirming the establishment of the section
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| == Section Executive Committees == | | == Larson Collection Interview == |
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| ==== 2014 ==== | | {{#widget:YouTube16x9|id=PtKCHyZPtY8</youtube> |
| *Chair: Nuno Borges de Carvalho (Universidade de Aveiro/IT)
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| *Vice-Chair: Ana Madureira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
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| *Vice-Chair: Ana Sofia Gomes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
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| *Secretary: José Pedro Silva (Critical Manufacturing S.A.)
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| *Treasurer: Pedro Manuel Afonso (Instituto Superior Técnico)
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| ==== 2013 ====
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| *Chair: Rui Santos Cruz (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / INOV)
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| *Vice-Chair: Ana Madureira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
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| *Vice-Chair: Jorge Miguel Soares (Instituto Superior Técnico / ISR / EPFL)
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| *Secretary: Diogo Mónica (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / Square)
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| *Treasurer: Bruno Gonçalves (Novabase)
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| ==== 2012 ====
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| *Chair: Rui Santos Cruz (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / INOV)
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| *Vice-Chair: Ana Madureira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
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| *Vice-Chair: Jorge Miguel Soares (Instituto Superior Técnico / ISR / EPFL)
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| *Secretary: Diogo Mónica (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / Square)
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| *Treasurer: Bruno Gonçalves (Novabase)
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| ==== 2011 ====
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| *Chair: Rui Santos Cruz (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / INOV)
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| *Vice-Chair: Ana Madureira (Instituto Politécnico do Porto)
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| *Vice-Chair: Jorge Miguel Soares (Instituto Superior Técnico / ISR / EPFL)
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| *Secretary: Diogo Mónica (Instituto Superior Técnico / INESC-ID / Square)
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| *Treasurer: Bruno Gonçalves (Novabase)
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| == Student Branches ==
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| * ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
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| ** ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa CS Student Chapter
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| ** ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa RAS Student Chapter
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| ** ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa WiE Student AG
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| * Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
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| * Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
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| * Instituto Superior Técnico
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| ** Instituto Superior Técnico IAS Student Chapter
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| ** Instituto Superior Técnico CS Student Chapter
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| ** Instituto Superior Técnico RAS Student Chapter
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| ** Instituto Superior Técnico WiE Student AG (est. 2011)
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| * Universidade da Beira Interior
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| * Universidade de Aveiro (est. 1989)
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| * Universidade de Coimbra
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| * Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro
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| * Universidade do Minho
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| * Universidade do Porto
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| * Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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| == Affinity Groups ==
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| * Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), est. 2010
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| * Women In Engineering (WiE), est. 2010
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| == Technical Chapters ==
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| * Communications Society Chapter
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| * Computational Intelligence Society Chapter
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| * Computer Society Chapter
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| * CE/CAS/BT Joint Chapter
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| * Education Society Chapter
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| * Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Chapter
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| * Technology Management Council Chapter
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| * IE/PEL/IA Joint Chapter
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| * MTT/AP/ED/SSC Joint Chapter
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| * Power Engineering Society Chapter
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| * Robotics and Automation Society Chapter
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| * Vehicular Technology Society Chapter
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| == Student Activities Timeline ==
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| * 2009: The Iberian Student Branch Congress was first organised. It was born out of a cooperation between the Instituto Superior Técnico and Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco Student Branches. It brought together for the first time the student branch volunteers from Portugal and Spain, as well as attendees from Region 8 and beyond, for a total of around 90. Since then, the event takes place every odd year, being alternately hosted by a Portuguese or a Spanish student branch.
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| * 2010: 16 people from Portugal attend the SBC 2010 in Leuven, Brussels, making it the third largest delegation.
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| * 2010: The first Portuguese Student Branch Congress was organised by the Universidade de Aveiro Student Branch. It's the yearly event for branch leadership in the Section. The follow-up event took place in Lisbon, October 2011, hosted by the Instituto Superior Técnico Student Branch.
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| * 2012: 28 Portuguese representatives attend the SBC 2012 in Madrid, Spain, making it the second largest delegation. Delegates attend in diverse roles, including a full event recording team from IEEE-IST TV
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| * 2014: The first edition of the IEEE Portugal Student Branches Leadership Camp takes place in Carcavelos, hosted by IEEE-IST
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| == Major Events ==
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| ==== 2009 ====
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| * IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting, Lisbon
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| * 1st IEEE Iberian Student Branch Congress, Lisbon
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| ==== 2011 ====
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| * Eurocon 2011, Lisbon
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Biography
Fowler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated in 1933 from Ohio State University, and obtained his PhD in 1936 from the California Institute of Technology. He was immediately appointed to the staff, serving as professor of physics there from 1946 to 1970; he was Institute Professor from 1970 and professor emeritus from 1982.
Fowler worked mainly in nuclear physics, especially on the nuclear reactions that occur in stars and by which energy is produced and the elements synthesized, on nuclear forces, and on nuclear spectroscopy. In 1957 Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, Fred Hoyle, and Fowler published a key paper dealing with the problem of the creation of the chemical elements in the interiors of stars. They were aware that the hot big bang proposed by George Gamow could produce nothing heavier than helium. Clearly the elements were produced later. They therefore had to identify nuclear reactions that could occur at the immense temperatures of stellar cores; the type of process changed, and hence changed the elements being produced, as the temperature increased and conditions altered inside the stars. A later and fuller version was published by Fowler and Hoyle in their Nucleosynthesis in Massive Stars and Supernovae (1965).
Fowler subsequently worked on such fundamental questions as the amount of helium and deuterium in the universe, the answers to such questions having profound implications for knowledge of the age and future development of the universe.
For his work on nuclear astrophysics, Fowler shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Larson Collection Interview
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