Two more Master theses defended this week
"Before the week comes to an end, two more LIP MSc students defended their theses: Rita Silva, from the PQCD group, at IST, and David Almeida, from SPAC, at FCUL. The topics illustrate the diversity of research areas at LIP. Congratulations!"
Rita Silva developed her Master's project integrated in the PQCD group of LIP, under the supervision of Catarina Quintans. The work was developed in the framework of the preparation of the AMBER experiment - a fixed-target experiment that will operate in the SPS accelerator at CERN, succeeding to the COMPASS experiment. In this phase, the Monte Carlo simulation of the physical processes and the spectrometer is fundamental for the optimisation of the detectors. One of the objectives of the first phase of AMBER is the study of the Drell-Yan process (dimuon production in quark-antiquark annihilation). In this work, the impact of using a vertex detector with different configurations is studied.
Rita's thesis, entitled "Optimisation studies for the pion-induced Drell-Yan measurement at the AMBER experiment", was defended at the Physics Department of IST, on 23 November at 9h. The members of the jury were Mário Pimenta(LIP/IST, president of the jury), Carlos Azevedo (UA, examiner), Rute Pedro (LIP/IST, examiner) and Pedro Abreu (LIP/IST).
David Almeida defended his thesis entitled "PandeMedia: an annotated corpus of digital media for issue salience", at the Department of Computer Sience of FCUL, thus concluding his Master's degree in Data Science, also on 23 November 2022, at 10h. The members of the jury were Tiago João Vieira Guerreiro (FCUL, President of the Jury) , Emanuele Cozzo (Univ. Barcelona, examiner), Joana Gonçalves de Sá (LIP, supervisor).
The work was developed in the framework of the SPAC (Social Physics and Complexity) group at LIP, which uses large-scale computational tools to study societal challenges, especially in disease prediction, human behaviour, and public policy, using a complex systems approach. In particular, the thesis supervisor and main researcher of the group leads the European project (ERC) "Fake News and Real People - Using Big Data to Understand Human Behaviour (FARE)".
Congratulations to Rita and David!