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DIM and CMM reward the “Outstanding Student 2009”
For the third consecutive year, the Center for Mathematical Modeling awards thebest student of Mathematical Civil Engineering. This year it was elected the studentOmar Vargas Larré who left behind other candidates with an average grade 6.43. This contest is for students who are in the final stage of their careers andits purpose is to afford the student's participation in an internationalconference or workshop. While acknowledging their good grades, Omar did not think he would be thewinner. “I was not expecting this. There is a...
read moreBook highlights four projects of CMM for their relevance in the development of Chile
70 Stories of Innovation and Science, a collection of outstanding initiatives in Chile between 2000 and 2008, is the name of this work developed by the Ministry of Economy, CONICYT and different research entities.
read moreNumerical Analysis Group perform successful international meeting
The traditional Meeting of Numerical Analisys of PartialDifferential Equations, held during the last three years at Valparaiso,movedto the capital, generating the “Santiago Numérico I”, an activityaimed at interaction and dissemination of this field of mathematics. The event, held at the Faculty of Mathematics at Pontificia UniversidadCatólica de Chile, was according to Gabriel Gatica -associateresearcher at the CMM and one of the organizers- “a way to motivatestudents and advanced undergraduates interested in...
read moreResearcher Servet Martínez becomes president of UMALCA
From January 2009 and for the next three years, the associatedresearcher of CMM will lead the Executive Committee of UMALCA (for its name inSpanish). During his administration the mathematician expects strengthening thediscipline in the region. The current president of the ChileanAcademy ofSciences and associate research of the Center Mathematical Modeling (CMM),Servet Martínez, assumed on January 1 as the new president of the MathematicalUnion of Latin America and the Caribbean to replace Jose Antonio La Peña, a professor at the UNAM...
read moreStudy reveals mathematicians have the best job
After analyzing 200 different positions, the study determines the best and the worst jobs in United States.
read moreNational Institute of Education of Singapore and CMM sign a Memorandum of Understanding
The agreement was made within the framework of the “Memorandum of Understanding and Educational Interchange” signed by the Ministries of Education of Chile and Singapore. The agreement between the Singaporean institute and the Center will pursue joint research activities and/or workshops, including the area of mathematics education.
read moreVideoconference tutorial by CMM and Buglabs
The remote meeting, which lasted over two hours, allowed students to know what this American company is doing in the development of hardware and, at the same time, to validate themselves in the eyes of Buglabs as qualified developers in that field.
read moreCenter for Advanced Research in Education was launched
The joint initiative of the University of Chile, Universidad de Concepción and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso seeks to expand the scientific knowledge about education and help improve learning opportunities for children and young Chileans.
read moreThe Prime Minister of Singapore visit the CMM
Through a tour of the premises of the CMM, Lee Hsien Loong met the work being done by its researchers and internalizes on actions aimed at establishing a mutual collaboration between the center and Singaporeans academic institutions.
read moreResearchers make a video on the study of probabilities
TheLaw of Large Numbers, from gambling to the study of probabilities is thename of the video done by researchers of the Millennium Nucleus on Informationand Randomness that aims to become a support for high school students in the learningof probabilities. What is the chance?, How many times it is necessary to shuffle a deck of cardsto be sufficiently mixed, how is distributed the heat in a metal plate? Theseand other questions are addressed in this audiovisual work that intends tointroduce high school students and the general public on the...
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