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Winter School

RMOP

Robust MultiObjective Optimization Platform- Optimization for industrial to Research applications - Wednesday, April 3th

At O. C. Zienkiewicz seminar room of CIMNE, C-1 building, Campus Nord UPC

Ponents: Hector Espinoza, Martí Coma Company and Jordi Pons Prats from CIMNE and METALFORM

RMOP is the CIMNE’s tool to fulfill the requirements of those requiring an optimization analysis. Developed from CIMNE’s own Research in optimization methods, this tool is devoted to a large set of users; from industrial users to researchers. RMOP, which is in continuous development, provides two optimization methods (Genetic Algorithms and Particle Swarm), as well as an easy and user-friendly graphical interface. The platform capabilities will be introduced including some relevant applications.

Conferencia: "What Happens to a Society when it Stops Making Things - Tuesday, March 19th"

Profesor Marc Madou - At Sala Multimèdia IQS

Through collaboration IQS and Social Work "la Caixa" Spain first visit Dr. Marc Madou, a scientist relevant to microfabrication. His main areas of action are microfluidics, biofuel cells and electroactive polymers.

His first actuation area has numerous patents on a microfluidic device implemented in a rotating disc that is called “compact disc”. It makes Microfluidics by centrifugal force of microliter volumes or nanoliter that allow complete of mixing very expensive or scarce reagents.

Biofuel cells, his second area of action, emulate the biological process by which the body converts food into energy. He developed methods for manufacturing the electrodes of such batteries. He has a project of the National Science Foundation $1 million for this research. Electroactive polymers, the third area of activity, are devices used to make highly controlled drug delivery without hospitalization. They are also used to make biosensors to provide information on the biological functioning of the body.

His group has generated over 80 patents, most signed by him. Dr. Marc Madou has published 8 books, 146 articles in journals of high impact, has achieved 27 patents of which 11 are active. He has won numerous contracts, some with million dollar budgets. In academics, Dr. Marc Madou is a Chancellor's Professor of University of California, Irvine. This defines a Chancellor's University Professor as a member of the academic community with unusual merits. The university gives this recognition only to 3% of active teachers. Dr. Madou was Chancellor's Professor from 2002 to 2007 and was renovated in 2007 to today.