translated from Spanish: World Congress of scientific youth begins with leading international experts in u. de Santiago

With exhibitions such as ‘project aerospace NASA”, of the academic Adriana Ocampo, who works for the company that manufactures the next manned vehicle of the U.S. Space Agency, or”A trip by an expanding universe”, the former President of the Comis ion Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Conicyt), Mario Hamuy, part this Thursday the 9th version of the World Congress of scientific youth.
The meeting, organized by the Central Scientific of the delegation Chilean of the International Federation of scientific societies (FISS) in conjunction with the University of Santiago de Chile, considered the participation of more than one hundred international experts from 18 countries, reported Thursday the average University “UdeSantiago Al Día”.
These include the Mexican physics Ana María Cetto, contributor to United Nations; the Chilean NASA Exoplanet specialist Mario Pérez; the oceanographer who predicted the location of the 370 flight of Malaysia Airlines, Charitha Pattiaratchi, academic in Australia; and the Chilean José Zagal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The opening day of the Congress takes place from this morning in the Aula Magna of the University of Santiago of Chile, with keynote in charge of rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi. The President of the World Congress of scientific youth, Mirka Coronado, and the World President of the International Federation of scientific societies (FISS), Ramon Seiffe also presented.
Later, Eduardo Posada is gave way to the first exhibition of the meeting, “The importance of basic science for Latin America”, the reference in policy for science, technology and innovation in Colombia, the Colombian physicist.
Diverse themes call for proposals will be extended until Monday 19 November, where experts address topics such as climate change, electromobility, migration and gender, through lectures, seminars, dissemination courses, workshops, debates and conferences.
Ellen S. Baker, former NASA astronaut who took part in three space missions and has registered more than 686 hours in space, will also be one of the exhibitors of the event. Baker was part of the first crew of United States in coupled with the Russian space station Mir, and will expose “the space experience and its lesson for coexistence on Earth”.
Also will participate in the Congress the Honorary President of the Latin American Forum of environmental sciences in UNESCO, the Argentinean Rubén Pesci, with its exhibition “Sustainability and the intelligence of the common good”, and the Director of the Center for the Development of nanoscience and nanotechnology (Cedenna), the Chilean Dora Altbir.
First time in Chile the World Congress of scientific youth is held every two years and in new way will be developed in our country.
At the launch of the event, which was held on October 10, the Vice President of the Organizing Committee, Alberto Shamosh, argued that he chose Chile for his leadership and scientific sensibility, which has begun to manifest itself through events such as the Congress the future and the creation of public agencies such as the Ministry of science and technology, which will face the challenge of increasing investment in research and development. Currently, this represents only 0.36% of GDP, the lowest among the countries of the OECD and far from Korea of the South, with a 4%.
Under the theme “towards a more human science”, sessions seek to bring scientific knowledge to people who are outside academia.
“Unfortunately, in science, in art and in the symphonic music we have lost the ability to understand the true purpose of what is being done. You are looking for through art and science is to generate a deep inspiration and that young people are interested, investigate and bring to humanity and to the preservation of this planet,”said scientist and Colombian artist Edgar bridges, also during the launch at the Isidora Aguirre space of the House of higher studies.
Bridges is responsible for teaching the program of formation of the Bogota Philharmonic concerts and researcher in processes of humanization of Medicine of the National University of Colombia. Co-author of the “brain concert”, which seeks to explain the functioning of the brain, making an analogy with an orchestra, will perform the show together with the Foundation of Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Chile during the development of the Congress.
The young Centre for the Rector of linkage with the medium of the U. of Santiago, Karina Arias, “focus is young people, because it will be up to them the consequences of problems that today is taking the world, referring to climate change, the” pollution and migratory movements.”
To the Vice President for research, development and innovation of the House of studies, Julio Romero, “scientific vocation is must instill as early as possible to be able to project problems that must be resolved by science, that are not short-term”.
The value of input for each Conference is two thousand pesos and registration for all sessions is $40 billion. Members of the University of Santiago can apply for scholarships here.
9th World Congress of scientific youth web site:
https://www.juventudescientificas.org/ program:
https://www.juventudescientificas.org/agenda exhibitors:
https://www.juventudescientificas.org/expositor

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