This January 14 and 15, CORFO's Technological building, in Curauma's Industrial Park welcomed a group of Chilean and French experts in the “First French-Chilean Workshop on bioprocess modeling,” activity organized by researchers of the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and the Center for Mathematical Modeling FCFM-Universidad de Chile.
During those days of work there were presentations and meetings discussions on the managing of water resources, bacterial population growth and competition, among other topics.
“The main idea was to join in the same place researchers of the mathematics, biology and engineering, to generate alternatives applicable to different problems,” explained Gonzalo Ruiz, director of research and innovation of the Universidad Católica de Valparaiso.
The researcher commented, this is the first workshop of this type realized here in Chile. “We are very satisfied because it has given a very important speech among these areas, there have gone out very interesting offers and good conclusions. The idea is to generate new projects that link these disciplines,” he indicated.
For the organizers, this activity achieve with all their expectations. ” The evaluation is very good because we could have relied on professionals of diverse areas of the knowledge: biochemists, biologists and mathematicians. And that is our objective: to learn, to know the new problems for future researches,” emphasized the researcher of the CMM, Héctor Ramírez.
During the workshop also took part the INRIA-MERE group, made up by Alain Rapaport, Fabien Campillo, Claude Lobry, Jérôme Harmand, Twefik Sari who work at water resources modeling, specifically at the mathematical modeling, control and optimization of bioprocess. Led by Héctor Ramírez of the DIM-CMM, from this year, a group integrated by researchers of the UTFSM and PUCV pass to be an associate team of the MERE group.
