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Iniciativas lograron un financiamiento total de mil 800 millones de pesos en el Concurso Regular 2012, y el porcentaje de aprobación representa cerca del 60% de los proyectos presentados.

Un importante apoyo para el fomento y desarrollo de la investigación científica recibió la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María al adjudicarse una cifra cercana a los mil 800 millones de pesos en el Concurso Regular 2012 del Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Fondecyt).

En total fueron 23 iniciativas aprobadas, de las cuales 6 corresponden al Departamento de Electrónica: “Compact antennas for wireless communications systems”, de Héctor Carrasco; "New Rate-Distortion Theory Results and Signal Processing Applications”, de Milan Derpich; "Motion Integration Mechanisms in Mammalian Visual System”, de María José Escobar; "Optimization of wireless service through efficient channel characterization of small urban cells”, de Rodolfo Feick; “Multilevel converters for high voltage direct current transmission systems”, de Marcelo Pérez; y “Application of Model Predictive Control to Sensorless AC Drives”, de César Silva.

En tanto, el Departamento de Matemática se adjudicó 5 proyectos: “On the regularity of optimal value functions”, de Pedro Gajardo; “Multiplicity of solutions for quasilenear and non-local elliptic problems”, de Leonelo Iturriaga; “Controllability and inverse problems for Schrödinger equations”, de Alberto Mercado; “Nonlinear problems involving pseudo-differential operators”, de Jinggang Tan; y “Association Characteristics Between Two Spatial Processes and Reduction of Sample sizes in Spatial Statistics”, de Ronny Vallejos.

El Departamento de Física lidera las iniciativas: “Parton Propagation through Strongly Interacting Systems of Hot and Cold Matter”, de William Brooks; “Spin dynamics in magnetic nano-structures with defect arrays”, de Pedro Landeros; “Hadronic properties of the neutrino”, de Marat Siddikov; y “New Physics at the LHC and Beyond”, de Alfonso Zerwekh.

El Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental se adjudicó los proyectos: “Attaining Low-Salt Shelf-Stable foods through injection of By-products protein hydrolysate: Effect on drained weight, quality and overall productivity of Pouch-Packed Salmon”, de Sergio Almonacid; “Combined chemical and electrochemical treatment of copper smelter wastewater”, de Henrik Hansen; “Fractional calculus as a mathematical tool to improve the modeling of heat and mass transfer phenomena in food processing: exploratory analysis in osmotic dehydration”, de Ricardo Simpson; y “Diagnosis of Problematic Wine Fermentations Using Advanced Instrumentation and Intelligent Data Processing”, de Alejandra Urtubia.

El Departamento de Informática se adjudicó financiamiento para “Meta-algorithmic strategies for improving heuristics-based search algorithms”, a cargo de María Cristina Riff; el Departamento de Química “Synthesis of Linear Diprenylhydroquinones Derivatives and Biological Activity in Encapsulated System. Application for the Control of Plant Pathogen Fungus Botrytis cinerea in plant tissues”, de Luis Espinoza; el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, “Hydrogen and syngas production by partial oxidation of heavy fuel oil”, de Mario Toledo y el Centro de Biotecnología, la iniciativa “Improvement of gelatin/chitosan/hyaluronan biopolymers used in tissue engieering by an ageing approach”, a cargo de Cristián Acevedo.