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- Dr. Raimund Bürger participated as one of the plenary speakers at IMG 2025, where he presented his most recent results in the modeling of mining and water treatment processes.
The KAUST International Research Conference on Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Methods in Computational Science, IMG 2025, was held in Saudi Arabia from February 3 to 5. The conference has been held every year since 1981, bringing together researchers from all over the world to share their advances in multigrid, multilevel and multiscale computational techniques, as well as their applications in different scientific fields such as computational fluid dynamics, flow and transport in porous media, and domain decomposition methods, among others.
On this occasion, the event took place at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, in the city of Thuwal, and included nine plenary lectures, one of which was given by Dr. Raimund Bürger, full professor of the Department of Mathematical Engineering at the Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) and principal researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the U. de Chile.
The also deputy director of the Center for Research in Mathematical Engineering , CI²MA, of the UdeC presented the paper ‘Models and Numerical Methods for Unit Operations in Mineral Processing and Wastewater Treatment’ in which he explained “advances in the development of advanced numerical methods, in particular of high order and with satisfaction of an invariant region principle, aspect that is a topic of both my research proposal of the recently awarded Fondecyt 1250676 project, as well as of the PhD thesis of Juan David Barajas, which he is developing in the PhD Program in Applied Mathematics under the supervision of colleague Luis Miguel Villada and Professor Pep Mulet (U. of Valencia) and myself”.
Regarding the invitation to participate in the IMG, Bürger commented that “a couple of months ago I was invited by Gabriel Wittum, currently an academic at KAUST, with whom and whose working group I was in contact in the early 2000s at the Universität Stuttgart. At KAUST I also met other colleagues from my Stuttgart working group, such as Olaf Steinbach, now an academic at TU Graz, Austria”.
“It has been an impressive experience to meet KAUST, about 80 kilometers north of Saudi Arabia’s second largest city, Jeddah, on the shores of the Red Sea,” added the MWC researcher. “The university is very open to international collaboration and, among other programs, invites Master’s students (advanced undergraduate) to apply for stays, an opportunity that our students of the Civil Mathematical Engineering career at UdeC could take advantage of. Anyway, I thank Professor Wittum and his team and the Director of the Mathematics Department of KAUST, Daniele Boffi, for their kind and generous invitation”..
By Iván R. Tobar Bocaz, journalist of the Center for Mathematical Modeling, Concepción.
Posted on Mar 11, 2025 in News
