On the occasion of the Congress of the Future, an space for exchange of ideas between Chileans and world class thought leaders, Millennium Science Initiative organizes two activities, which are free and open to the public, in Valparaíso (Chile). The first one, which will take place on 22th January  2016.  It will be a conference in cooperation with the German Max-Planck Societ. The purpose is to deepen the collaboration and to spread the work of these centers to the rest of the scientific community.  The other two events are an opening table on “Science and Development” and a Plenary Conference carried out by PhD  Peter Seeberger, Director at the Max-Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces.

The third  workshop Chile-Japon on Nonlinear PDEs, which was partly supported by CAPDE along with Japan funding, took place in Osaka University from 8 to 11 December 2015.

It was aimed to bring together experts in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations from Chile and Japan. The meeting was intented to present recent advances in the area, whose problems play a key role in modeling biological pattern formation, mathematical ecology, material science and superconductivity, among other fields.

“It is very important for the Chilean and Japanese groups the interaction, to know what the others are doing, as well as to strengthen the possibility of postdoctoral exchanges”, pointed out Manuel del Pino, main researcher of Capde.

Topics covered included semilinear parabolic system, singular perturbation problems or competitive system of chemotaxis. The event was attended by 60 people and 22 speakers, 11 of them from Chie.

So, Del Pino, in his abstract “Bubbling in the critical heat equation: the role of Green’s function”, explained the point-wise, infinite-time bubbling phenomenon for positive solutions of the semilinear heat equation at the critical exponent in a bounded domain. On the other side, Claudio Muñoz´s abstracts was entitled “Dispersive estimates for rational symbols and local well-posedness of the nonzero energy NovikovVeselov equation”. Alexander Quaass talked about large solutions for some local and non-local nonlinear elliptic equations Break and Mónica Musso foucused on a non-compactness result on the fractional Yamabe problem in large dimensions. Also Ignacio Guerra shared his investigation, on“Multiplicity of solutions for an elliptic equation with a singular nonlinearity and a gradient term”.

Participants agreed to celebrate the fourth edition of this workshop in 2017 in Universidad Federico Santa María (USM). The first workshop was held in 2007 at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of Universidad de Chile and the second in 2010 in Tokyo.

For more information, see the website of the 3rd Chile-Japan Worshop on Nonlinear EDPs.

The Factulty of Physical and Mathematical Science of Universidad de Chile received on 21th October 2015, the visit of Virginia Garretón and Soledad Hevia, Executive Director and communication analist of Iniciativa Cientítiva Milenio (ICM). They met Capde Capde´s members, including young and senior pr researchers, as well as staff.

Manuel del Pino, main researcher and National Science Award 2009, presented an overview of the center and the activities carried out to date, while focusing on strengths and weaknesses The gathering was also an opportunity to dialogue about challenges that faces science in Chile and how to expand media influence.

CAPDE joins this 3D project organized by Iniciativa Científico Milenio (ICM), which  consists on representing images through three dimensional technology. It will be soon available on website and applied for outreach activities. “This technology is very useful to make people to understand complex realities. It allows, for instance, to enter into a classroom, while the professor explains how mathematical modeling works”, said Fabián Castro, head of bussiness of the company that is developing this initiative.

Omar Gil, screenwriter of “Primos entre sí”, the theater play sponsored by Capde, talks live in radio about the importance of bringing mathematics to the schoolrooms. He pointed out that this field of knowledge helps people to “understand better the world”. He also explains the need to accept mistakes during the process of learning.

Source: Radio Duna