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March

Specialization Course “LLMs: Generative AI for Engineers”

"At the end of the program, it is expected that the graduates will be familiar with the potential applications of natural language processing to textual documents. Specifically, they will have the skills to:

• Explore the potential applications of generative AI based on LLMs;
• Apply generative AI based on LLMs, following each of the steps in information discovery;
• Adapt LLMs to specific use cases through fine-tuning and optimization of the model’s objective function;
• Maximize model performance through state-of-the-art training, tuning, and optimization, considering the specific constraints of the application."

Applications: until March 3

Registration: 1500€

For more information, visit the website.

April

Open Day at Técnico 2025

The doors of the Alameda campus in Lisbon will open to visitors, offering a chance to discover what is taught and researched (and much more) across the three Técnico campuses. Student, scientist, and professor projects will be showcased in an event where it will also be possible to visit laboratories and learn more about the educational offerings at the School.

Various research and innovation projects will be featured in an interactive exhibition with experiences hosted by researchers and students. Simultaneously, several teaching and research labs will be shown in action, with guided tours by students.

Priberam Machine Learning Lunch Seminar – Marcos Treviso

Summary: Adaptive sparse attention mechanisms have emerged as a powerful alternative to dense attention in transformers, offering greater interpretability for sequence modeling. However, their widespread adoption has been limited by computational inefficiencies and a lack of understanding of their theoretical properties compared to dense attention models. Marcos Treviso (from the Instituto de Telecomunicações) will present recent advancements in adaptive sparse attention, exploring its expressivity, generalization ability, and hardware-aware optimizations.

For more information, click here.

Webinar – Mendeley Reference Manager

The webinar will be divided into two sessions:

First session: “Essential Mendeley”
April 9, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Wednesday)
For beginners using Mendeley, covering the following topics:

• Accessing Mendeley Reference Manager
• Adding references to Mendeley Reference Manager
• Exporting references from Mendeley to a word processor
• Using Mendeley features to insert citations and create bibliographies

Second session: “Advanced Mendeley”
April 10, 2025, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Thursday)
For users with some experience who would like to explore more advanced features of the manager, including:

• Finding references with the Mendeley Web Catalog
• Using the new Notebook
• Creating groups in Mendeley Reference Manager
• Exporting references to LaTeX

For more information, visit the library's page.

June

Solar Photovoltaic Energy Course | Técnico MOOC

Starting January 6, registrations are open for the course focused on solar photovoltaic energy conversion technology. Participants will learn about the properties of light and the operational principles of photovoltaic cells, as well as the process of manufacturing solar cells, including photovoltaic panel configurations and system design methodology for both grid-connected and autonomous systems, with or without battery storage.

The course is open to undergraduate and master's students, professionals in engineering and renewable energy fields, and the general public interested in enhancing their knowledge.

Course ends: June 30.
For more information, visit the website.

July

Electrocap

A celebration of the talent and creativity of our students!
ElectroCap will showcase projects developed within the scope of the 1st Cycle Integrative Project, as well as activities from student associations and clubs, and excellence research conducted in the research institutes associated with DEEC.

15th Edition of the Lisbon Machine Learning School (LxMLS)

LxMLS is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of NLP and computational linguistics, computer scientists interested in statistics and machine learning, and industry professionals seeking deeper knowledge in these areas.

The event is jointly organized by Técnico, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), Lisbon ELLIS Unit for Learning and Intelligent Systems (LUMLIS), Unbabel, Zendesk, and IBM Research.

For more information, visit the LxMLS page.