Yuki Yayama leaves very satisfied with the experience and, although she has no clear future employment, she is certain that her work as a postdoctoral researcher at CMM has provided her with new tools.
—How was your experience in the CMM and in this country?
I think that the CMM is a great place to work. We can discuss research with professors, ask questions to them and have wonderful advice from them. With the Fondecyt program, we can have travel money etc. and focus on our own research, which I think is very nice. We can also broaden our research area since professors here work in many different fields.
Seminars at the CMM also broaden our research interest. In addition, conferences at the CMM help us to meet visitors and to discuss with them.
In Santiago, there is a weekly seminar (dynamical systems) and this also helps our research.
Computer equipment is also very good. We have professional people who help us computer or security problems. Librarians are also very helpful and they assist us very well. Secretaries here are very nice and helpful. I greatly appreciate their assistance in living and working in Santiago. I also appreciate the people clean the offices.
—Compared with other countries, how to rate the technical level of science in Chile?
High quality research and variety of research (pure and applied) at the CMM. It is very impressive.
—Is there an specific area in which you was pleasantly surprised by its high technical level, compared with other universities in the world?
There are big research groups at the CMM in some particular fields of mathematics and there are many colaborations with researchers from the foreign institutes. Also, again there are many fields of research areas at the CMM. It is very impressive.
I deeply appreciate the technicians who help me with problems with computer.
—Does your experience in the CMM has opened new career or professionals options in any other research center in the world or the country?
I think the experience here have been helping me to grow myself as a mathematician. I deeply appreciate the environment and the people that I have met at the CMM. I think I have learned many things both in working and living. I deeply appreciate it.
