19/05/2023

Estadão highlights IMPA's contributions to the new market.

The Estadão newspaper covered changes in the curricula of undergraduate and graduate courses at different universities and institutes concerned with meeting the new demands of an economy increasingly focused on technological advances, in the report "How changes in the economy are transforming teaching in universities and business schools" . The Pi Center and IMPA Tech , the institute's new undergraduate course that will operate from 2024, were cited as positive examples in the country.

The Director-General of IMPA, Marcelo Viana, and project scientist Lucas Nissenbaum were interviewed. Viana highlighted the implementation of IMPA Tech, IMPA's first undergraduate course, at Porto Maravalley, in the port region of Rio de Janeiro.

“It’s an innovation center where various actors in the economic process will coexist, such as companies, startups, and innovation promotion agencies. It’s a win-win situation. Partner companies can have a highly skilled workforce available, and for students, it’s a training and career path development opportunity,” he explained.

The report highlighted that IMPA Tech will offer an initial basic cycle of one and a half years with subjects in mathematics, physics, computer and data science, and humanities, and that, at the end of the period, each student will have to choose the emphasis for the remainder of the course.

With an emphasis on a new economy that increasingly demands the improvement of technologies, the newspaper also highlighted the work of the Pi Center (IMPA's Center for Projects and Innovation) , which has put into practice the use of artificial intelligence to solve obstacles for companies that turn to IMPA.

As an example of the work done, Lucas Nissenbaum spoke about the project in partnership with Dasa, which developed an algorithm capable of calculating the volume of amniotic fluid in pregnant women.

"This was already being done by doctors, but we developed a system that does it in seconds and quantifies this uncertainty," Nissenbaum told the newspaper.

"Artificial intelligence is a very large area of mathematics, it requires mathematical knowledge, and there is a high demand for professionals to work in this field," he concluded.