Speakers

Jürgen Kurths

(born 11 March 1953 in Arendsee/Altmark) is a German physicist and mathematician. He is Senior Advisor at  Research Department 4 “Complexity Science” at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor and Senior Advisor at Humboldt University Berlin, and a chair for Complex Systems Biology at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology at Kings College, Aberdeen University (UK).  He is an expert in theoretical physics, complex systems science, and applications to the Earth system, infrastructure (e.g., power grids), the human brain, and other systems characterized by a high degree of complexity and nonlinearity.

Constantino Tsallis

Is emeritus researcher at the Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, (CBPF-RJ, Brasil) founder of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems, and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He holds a doctorat d’État ès Sciences Physiques from the University of Paris-Orsay. He is doctor honoris causa from various universities in Latin America and Europe, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Mexico Prize laureate. He has supervised over forty PhD and master theses, and delivered over one thousand of invited lectures around the world. He published in 1988 a proposal of generalization of the Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics on the basis of nonadditive entropies. This idea is since then being worldwide explored. Prof. Tsallis´ contributions have received over 21,000 ISI citations (6,000 of them for his 1988 paper), which currently makes him one among the most cited scientists of all times in Latin America.

Ronald Dickman

Ronald Dickman has a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York (CNUY) (1974) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin (1984). He taught at Lehman College and the Graduate Center (CUNY) during 1985-97, and was a visiting professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,  1998. He is currently a full professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2013, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  Prof. Dickman has experience in Statistical Physics and 
Thermodynamics, with research focusing on on non equilibrium phase transitions,  critical phenomena, Monte Carlo simulation, universality, theory of liquids, stochastic  processes, and steady-state thermodynamics, explaining the "self-organized criticality" in sand piles due to a control mechanism, the so-called absorbing-state mechanism. He is co-author of a book on non-equilibrium phase transitions and more than 175 articles in scientific journals. As a consequence of his teaching activity, he developed courses on Hydrodynamics, Computational Methods, Climate Physics, Phase Transitions, Renormalization Groups, Stochastic Processes, and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics.

María Cristina Depassier

M. Cristina Depassier received a Master of Science degree (1975) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and M. Phil. (1978) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees in physics from Columbia University. Her research interests lie in the field of nonlinear instabilities in physical systems and in the evolution of nonlinear reaction diffusion waves. Her current research deals with the role of reaction diffusion dynamics in magnetic systems, mainly nanotubes, and with the study of mathematical aspects of reaction diffusion dynamics in systems with free boundaries.She is currently full professor of Physics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she also served as Dean of the Faculty of Physics (2006-2013).   

Victor Muñoz

Associate Professor at the University of Chile, with interests in the fields of Plasma Physics and Complex Systems. His research includes topics such as wave propagation in relativistic plasmas, nonlinear phenomena is astrophysical and space plasmas, kinetic theory, chaotic and fractal behavior in physical systems, dynamics of social systems, complex networks, and nonlinear analysis of time series of astrophysical, space physics, and geophysical interest.  He is also actively interested in science communication, either leading or being involved in various initiatives which explore the multiple connections of Physics with daily life, other Sciences, and Arts.

Organizers

Sergio Curilef Huichalaf

Full professor in the Physics Department at Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Antofagasta, Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)-RJ, Brazil, in July 1997. His main research areas are statistical physics and quantum mechanics of systems with long-range interactions, particles in the magnetic field, and nonlinear diffusion. He has recently developed research on complex systems and applications to science and engineering. He is the principal investigator in several research projects, and he did a sabbatical year at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2007. He has also created undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Physics at his university, and he is currently an academic counselor of the UCN Higher Council.

Orazio
Descalzi Muñoz

Researcher in nonlinear physics and complex systems. He is a physicist from the University of Chile. He received his PhD in Physics from the Universität Essen, Germany in 1994. He has been Director of Research at the Universidad de los Andes between 2012 and 2018. He is currently Director of the Interdisciplinary Evaluation Group of ANID (National Agency for Research and Development). He is a full professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the Universidad de los Andes where he teaches Thermodynamics. He is also the head of the Complex Systems group, which conducts theoretical research in partial differential equations, particularly those that describe localized structures (dissipative solitons) in out-of-equilibrium systems such as optical systems or surface chemistry. Other branches of interest of the research group are random processes where noise can be intrinsic (such as thermal noise) or aggregated (such as multiplicative noise). He has been awarded numerous research projects funded by Conicyt as principal investigator and has published more than 70 publications. He is one of the regular co-organizers of the Medyfinol (Conference on Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics).

Luisberis
Velázquez Abad

Professor in the Physics Department of the Universidad Católica del Norte, where he has developed research in Statistical Mechanics and its interrelationships with other disciplines, such as astrophysics, condensed matter, computational physics and mathematics. He has devoted a special interest to the study of the geometric foundations for thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, as well as the dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions, topics in which he was involved in various research projects.

Sergio Davis Irarrázabal

Evaldo Mendonça Fleury Curado

Evaldo Mendonça Fleury Curado is a Full Professor at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His main research areas are in Statistical Physics, Complex Systems and Quantum Mechanics. He is Topic Editor of the Journal Entropy and Head of the National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems (INCT-SC), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Marcelo Ramírez
​Ávila

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