Promising university students of engineering and mathematical sciences from five countries take part in the twelfth version of the Spring School, organized in Santiago by the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) and the Department of Mathematical Engineering (DIM) of the University of Chile.
The activity brought together 11 outstanding students from Vietnam, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Argentina y Chile between January 7th to 18th.
The organizers of this initiative, Jaime Ortega and Joaquin Fontbona, explain that this school is oriented to the PhD, and has a double goal: to present and introduce the program to young people and to discover potential Ph.D candidates.
Both academics affirm that the best students usually stay. That’s the intention of various participants this year, as Mauricio Barrera, from Medellin, who just finished his Master of Differential Equations of the National University of Colombia: “I have colleagues who are doing PhD here and encouraged me to participate in the school. My intention is to get a seat for a PhD at this university, because it has very good academic level and colleagues have spoken highly of it”, he says.
The participants were selected through consideration of their academic records and their personal conditions to follow doctorate studies.
The school contents are an introductory way to different lines, like Discrete Mathematics, Mathematics and Mechanics Inverse Problems, Nonlinear Analysis, Optimization and Equilibrium, and Information, Randomness and Stochastic Models.
