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- The scientific event, held at UCSC, included talks on applied mathematics and demonstrations of the modeled physical phenomena.
On Friday, October 3, the GIANuC² 2025 Meeting: Numerical Methods for Multiphysics Systems – Theory and Applications was held, organized by the Research Group on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (GIANuC²) of the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción.
Three researchers from the Center for Mathematical Modeling at the University of Chile participate in GIANuC²: Jessika Camaño Valenzuela, Luis Gatica Simpertigue, and Sergio Caucao Paillán, who is also the group’s coordinator. They are joined by UCSC academics Tomás Barrios, Edwin Behrens, and Abner Poza.
Regarding the objectives of this second GIANuC² meeting, Caucao explained that “its purpose is to show the entire UCSC community, as well as outsiders, the work we do as a group in Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDE). It also seeks to invite researchers from our university who work in related areas where numerical methods are applied, with the aim of strengthening our internal collaboration networks and exploring the possibility of developing interdisciplinary collaborative work”.
For this reason, the conference featured presentations by the six members of the group and by Cristian Inzunza Domínguez, a postdoctoral researcher at the CMM at UCSC. In addition, Caucao explained, “four researchers from other departments of the Faculty of Engineering: Rafael Aránguiz, Felipe Villalobos, Nelson Maureira, and Eduardo Espinosa.”
In addition to the ten talks that took place between 8:50 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., the researcher added, participants also visited “the laboratories in the San José Obrero building at our university, where, thanks to a guided tour by GIANuC² researcher Edwin Behrens, we were able to empirically appreciate how numerical methods are useful as a natural complement to laboratory experiments used to model specific phenomena, such as the behavior of tsunamis and earthquakes, among other applications.”
The event was sponsored by the UCSC Research Directorate through the internal project assigned to GIANuC² (DI-UCSC FGII 06/2024) and, as Caucao explained, “the talks given by the group’s researchers focused on the results we achieved thanks to this funding, so this meeting also corresponds to a closing activity for the project.”
The UCSC academic stated that the objectives set for the scientific meeting were met by intertwining the perspectives of more fundamental EDP Numerical Analysis with its direct applications in the experimental world and vice versa. He also highlighted the important presence of “students from both the Master’s programs in Applied Mathematics and Civil Engineering, as well as the Civil Geological Engineering and Mathematics Education programs at UCSC.”
By Iván R. Tobar Bocaz, CMM Communications.
Posted on Oct 7, 2025 in News
