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CMM researcher participated in HYP 2024, a regular and important meeting on the theory, numerics and applications of hyperbolic PDEs that takes place in different countries every two years, and also visited University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB).
More than three hundred participants were recently congregated for the 19th International Conference on ‘Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics and Applications – HYP 2024′ which took place at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in PR China from July 1 to 5, 2024.
The objective of this series of conferences is to bring together researchers and students with interests in theoretical, applied, and computational aspects of hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) and of other related evolutionary PDEs. The event was sponsored by ten Chinese institutions such as NNSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China), School of Mathematical Sciences, SJTU; Institute of Natural Sciences, SJTU; and Ministry of Education (MOE) Funded Key Lab of Scientific and Engineering Computing; among others; and its previous venues were Málaga, Spain (2021/2022), University Park, Pennsylvania (2018), Aachen, Germany (2016) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2014).
Some of the subjects aimed in HYP 2024 were the most recent developments in hyperbolic problems, stimulating the exchange of new ideas from different disciplines, and the formulation of new challenging problems with potential impact on diverse fields of applications in topics like theory and application of conservation laws; Navier-Stokes and Euler equations; other PDEs in fluid dynamics, and numerical methods for hyperbolic PDEs.
This was the case with Prof. Raimund Bürger, researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) from Universidad de Chile and academic at Universidad de Concepción, who presented ‘A multilayer shallow water model for tsunamis and coastal forest interaction’, as part of the specialized session chaired by Xiongfeng Yang.
Enhancing international collaboration
The researcher, also a member of the Center for Research in Mathematical Engineering (CI²MA) at UdeC, explained that “at this opportunity, I presented for the first time at an international conference result related to models and numerical methods of the impact of tsunamis on coastal forests. These are of vital importance for exploring the potential of coastal vegetation as a means of mitigation”.
“These results had been obtained jointly with my colleague Dr. Enrique D. Fernández-Nieto (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) and our PhD student Jorge Moya (UdeC)”, he added.
The series of HYP conferences is focused on hyperbolic PDEs, but is unique in combining theoretical, numerical, and practical aspects of these mathematical models. The event is attended by researchers of all levels of seniority, undergraduate and graduate students, and postdocs. Bürger commented that “there is quite a number of researchers in Chile, in particular at CMM, working on these topics. I therefore made the suggestion to hold one of the next HYP conferences in Chile. This proposal was well received by the scientific committee of HYP2024, and while HYP2026 will be held in Germany, there are good chances that the following event will be organized in Chile in 2028 or 2029, a decision that will be taken in two years. This prospect will certainly strengthen our local hyperbolic community”
Editorial work challenges
In addition, following the conference in Shanghai, Bürger visited the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) where he gave an academic presentation, entitled ‘Mathematical modelling in solid-liquid separation in mining’, at the School of Civil and Resource Engineering to the group of Professors Aixiang Wu and Zhuen Ruan, both collaborators of Bürger. Both invited him then to visit the Journal Publishing Center of USTB. “I am member of the Editorial Boards of International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials (IJMMM)”, he explained, “and the newly founded journal Green and Smart Mining Engineering published by USTB”.
“I was very impressed with the careful and well-organized editorial work done for both journals. USTB publishes just six specialized journals but provides large office space and finances several editorial staff members for each of them. Especially IJMMM, which is published jointly with Springer and recently celebrated its 30th anniversary of publication, has established itself as a well curated, high-quality (quartile Q2) journal of mining, minerals processing, physical metallurgy, process metallurgy, and materials science and processing. Part of my scientific production has always gone to engineering journals of these applications, and in fact I was invited to assume a major role in the edition of IJMMM. I am looking forward to accepting this challenge”, Bürger concluded.
His visit to China was funded mainly by Anillo project ANID/ACT210030 with a contribution of Fondecyt project 1210610.
By Iván R. Tobar Bocaz, CMM journalist at Concepción
Posted on Jul 21, 2024 in News
