How small can future be? Mathematicians Gunther Ulhmann and Jaime San Martin outlined some keys in a panel with other outstanding scientists, at the Parliament
Could we make ourselves invisibles in a near future? That’s one of the questions rose at the “Congress of the Future II”, convened by the Commission for Challenges of the Future of the Senate, from January 17th to 19th.
The event gathered scientist, politicians and remarkable figures from humanities, to aboard the main problems and tasks that will derivate from the population growth, sustainability of resources, governability and advance of technologies for the coming years.
Two researchers from the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the University of Chile, Gunther Ulhmann and Jaime San Martín, were invited to the panel “Nanotechnology: How small our future is” which try to give an outline of how nanostructures would aloud to control atoms and use its applications in benefit of medicine and diverse areas.
Ulhmann, who is a visiting researcher from University of Washington, presented his latest work to aim invisibility of material, including humans. The problem- he affirms- “is that the properties to make material invisible are not present in nature, and that´s a whole challenge for future generations”.
Jaime San Martín, as well, referred to information, aleatority and stochastic models.
Both mathematicians shared the panel with Professor Enge Wang, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of Nanobiotechnology Laboratory of University of Chile, Marcelo Kogan.
