Speaker:  Carla M. A. Pinto,  School of Engineering, Technical University of Porto, Portugal

Time : 15:00 - 16:00 CEST (Rome/Paris)

Hosted at: SISSA, International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy

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Organizers : Pavan Pranjivan Mehta* (pavan.mehta@sissa.it) and Arran Fernandez** (arran.fernandez@emu.edu.tr)

* SISSA, International School of Advanced Studies, Italy

** Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus

Keywords: epidemic models, integer order models, fractional models

Abstract: Compartmental models track how people move between stages. We examine whether fractional calculus meaningfully captures delays and changing transition risks, compare it with delay equations, and find its added value remains unclear. Please see \cite{pinto} and references therein from the same authors.

Biography: Dr. Carla M.A. Pinto is Associate Professor with Habilitation at the School of Engineering, Technical University of Porto, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics, awarded in January 2004. Her primary research area is Mathematical Epidemiology, with a broader interest in mathematical modeling and its applications to public health policy.

Dr. Pinto has a strong background in Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcation Theory. Her previous research includes the analysis of Central Pattern Generators for animal and robotic locomotion, coupled cell networks, and neuron-like systems such as the Hodgkin-Huxley, FitzHugh-Nagumo, and Morris-Lecar equations. She currently serves as Editor of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals and Chaos X, and as Associate Editor for Computational and Applied Mathematics (Springer) and the International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer). Dr. Pinto is also a member of the editorial boards of Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, among others. She has chaired and organized numerous international conferences in Applied Mathematics.

Since 2017, Dr. Pinto has also been actively involved in Mathematics Education research, participating in several Erasmus+ projects. She has served as the Coordinator for MATH-DIGGER and DrIVE-MATH, and as Local Coordinator of other Erasmus+ projects at P.PORTO.

She was the Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Lab at the Technical University of Porto, from 5th August 2022 until July 2026.

Bibliography

[1] Julia Calatayud, Marc Jornet, and Carla M.A. Pinto. “Boundaries of applicability of fractional-order modeling in epidemiological and sociological phenomena”. In: Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis (2026): pp. 1–18.