Mathematica Technical Center Established in Brazil
April 14, 2000--The new Mathematica Technical Center (MTC) at the
University Federal of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil was inaugurated on
March 29, 2000. The opening ceremony included presentations by Professor
Segen Estefen, Director of COPPE/UFRJ, and Professor Renato Cotta, General
Coordinator for the MTC, as well as a videoconference with strategic
executives from Wolfram Research, Inc. The event also included a tour of the
new training and technical facilities, which are hosted by the Laboratory
of Transmission and Technology of Heat of the Mechanical Engineering
Department of EE/COPPE, UFRJ.
The MTC is a Mathematica training, research, and consulting center
under the co-sponsorship and technical support of Wolfram Research.
The MTC
will provide the general public with Mathematica training and
consulting
services on both an individual and a group basis. It offers a wide range
of
courses to fit a variety of needs and interests--covering everything from
a
basic introduction to Mathematica to numerical analysis to
more-advanced
field-specific applications of Mathematica within different
disciplines.
The center will also help stimulate and contribute to computer-aided
learning initiatives of the regular academic units of UFRJ at both the
undergraduate and the graduate levels.
Mathematica--the international leading software system for
numerical,
symbolic, and graphical computation--lets users solve, visualize, and
harness the power of mathematics without the pencil-and-paper, calculator,
or complex custom-software approaches that were previously necessary.
Mathematica is revolutionizing the way work is done and presented
in
research, education, and publishing. Many new textbooks are being written
in Mathematica's platform-independent notebook format, while
research
papers prepared with Mathematica are completed faster, easier, and
more
professionally.
"The idea for the Mathematica Technical Center came from
conversations I
had with Professor Renato Cotta and Professor Mikhail Mikhailov at the
university during my trip to Brazil last September, and we're delighted to
see this idea become a reality so quickly," said Anya Foreman,
International Business Development Executive for Wolfram Research. "I hope
that many of our users will take the time to see what the center has to
offer and will take advantage of this unique opportunity to optimize their
Mathematica licenses."
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