In a ceremony at the Quai d’Orsay (palace of the French Foreign Affairs Ministry), President of Universidad de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi, and the director of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alain Fuchs, signed the renewal agreement of the Center for Mathematical Modeling as CNRS’ international mixed unit until 2019.
The signature ceremony was framed in the official visit of President Michelle Bachelet to Europe and was a part of the Chile-France forum, where six CMM researchers joined in: director Alejandro Jofré, Jaime San Martín, Rafael Correa, Carlos Conca, Héctor Ramírez and Eduardo Vera.
The arrangement creates new possibilities of collaboration with institutions such as the Information Sciences Institute (INS21), the Engineering and Systems Sciences Institute (Insis) and the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences (INS-MI-MAths). Additionally, the agreement promotes the CNRS work with other Chilean and Latin American institutions.
“Given the success of the CMM in this cooperation context, the center is seen as a platform for strengthening the collaboration with other Chilean universities and institutions throughout the Southern Cone”, stated CMM director Alejandro Jofré at Univesidad de Chile’s website.
Therefore, CMM validates its collaboration since 2000, when became the first Mathematics specialized IMU of CNRS. This alliance allows Chilean researchers to be in contact with the most advanced science produced in Europe. It is the result of cooperation between Chilean and French scientists that started developing since the 50’s.
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CNRS is the most relevant research center in France. It leads the SCImago ranking of research institutions according to their scientific production in the most prestigious journals, while the European Commission index has placed it in second place this year.
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