The goals are three fold. Firstly we will try to identify and possibly provide solutions for a number of mathematical problems in the field of Telecommunications. Secondly we intend to disseminate among telecommunications engineers some mathematical techniques which are not widely known in this community even if they are being applied in modern communication techniques. Finally we would like to improve mutual understanding and recognition between mathematicians and telecommunication engineers, one of the heaviest users of mathematical techniques in the field of engineering.

This event comes in the follow-up of rather successful, even if less ambitious event, Matemática em Telecomunicações: Que Problemas ? with similar objectives organized by IT in 1997.

The intended audience includes telecommunications engineers, mostly those providing the problems and being introduced to new mathematical tools, and mathematicians, mainly providing solutions and being introduced to real life interesting problems which may influence the direction of their research.

Among engineers, telecommunications engineers are arguably some of the heaviest users of mathematics, from differential equations and integrals of badly behaved functions in propagation and radiation of electromagnetic waves, to statistics to recover signals embedded in noise, to number theory and Galois fields in error control codes.

Given the extremely fast pace of microelectronic and computer technology, procedures which were considered to be impractical due to their complexity and hence process time are nowadays performed in real time and become more and more common. This situation has created considerable difficulties to telecommunications engineers that have a very hard life to keep up with the progress in their working field very often because in their studies they were not sufficiently (if at all) exposed to certain domains of mathematics which are increasingly important in real world applications. In addition, such are often not well suited for self learning and there are not yet many opportunities for continuing education in Portugal.