Researchers of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, of the Universidad Católica and of the Center for Mathematical Modeling, FCFM – U. de Chile, take part of the new associate team of the INRIA, in addition, other four French scientists take part.
The group will work in the project “Modeling, analysis and simulation of microbial ecosystems and of natural resources” and as person in charge is the researcher of the DIM-CMM Héctor Ramirez. For him, form a part of the associated equipment INRIA” is a very important recognition of the fruitful cooperation that has been kept already for 4 years with the team MERE (of the INRIA). This shows a confidence on behalf of the INRIA in the competitions of the Chilean team to continue developing these common subject matters“, he shares.
As comments Ramirez, to become an associate team it is necessary to demonstrate an important and mature cooperation with a group of the INRIA. “For this side, we were calm since we have worked together almost four years and have taken part in two projects INRIA-CONICYT, in addition we rely on several publications and common students and also we have organized workshops as a whole.”
The associate team will receive during the first year of execution of the project 20 thousand Euros, which will be able to be used so much by the Chilean as French scientists to finance their trips and those of young researchers and doctorals. Also one expects by this money to finance the organization of workshops and congresses.
The project TIC-AMSUD
Directed by the academician Joaquín Fontbona, Mathematical Modeling for Managing of Natural Resources MoMaRe – which is the name of the project awarded in the frame of the Summons 2009 of the Regional Program TIC-AMSUD.
In this initiative, besides the researchers Joaquín Fontbona and Héctor Ramirez, both of the DIM-CMM, take part other scientists of Chile, Peru, Argentina and France. The project considers a whole of 30 thousand Euros in 2 years for stays of research and organization of scientific meetings, 10 thousand of which are of availability for stays and trips of the Chilean researchers, or foreign guests to Chile, inside the frame of the project.
The Regional Program TIC-AMSUD is an initiative of French cooperation as a whole with institutions dedicated to the Science and Technology of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Chile – across CONICYT's -, which purpose is to form and to strengthen the regional capacities and its cooperation with France to start networks as for research and development, across the joint presentation of projects.
Especially, the project MoMaRe has as aim develop a mathematicians' scientific net applied to different cases of study of estimation and managing of renewable resources. “It will allow sharing different approaches to shape the dynamics of natural resources and propose algorithms for identification and control. The mathematical tools are based theoretically of dynamic systems and optimization for deterministic systems and stochastics”, makes clear Fontbona. “The initiative will focus in several ecosystems from microbial ecology to forest developments, as well as fisheries, etc.”.
For the researcher, to take part in this project is “an opportunity to interact with other specialists of Latin America and of France concerning topics and incipient applications, where the mathematics can have a new and useful impact in industrial relevant sectors for our countries,” he concludes.
| The project ” Modeling, analysis and simulation of microbial ecosystems and of natural resources ” (team partner INRIA)
Thenew knowledge on microorganisms acquired by the microbiologists thanksto new molecular tools, and the appearance of new strategies for thegood use and the conservation of the natural resources, puts to themicrobial ecosystems as crucial objects of study for the purificationof the waters and the maintenance the soils quality. In the presence ofthe complexity of many bacterial species and of its interactions, themodeling allows to develop tools to analyze, simulate and predict theseecosystems from observations, and also to design strategies ofoptimization and control of the biotechnological methods that exploitthese ecosystems. |
