Wednesday, July 19th, 2023. Time: 15h.

Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona

ABSTRACT

On his recent visit to Mexico within the framework of the Severo Ochoa mobility program, Professor Francisco Zárate had the opportunity to carry out various activities like the successful third symposium of CIMNE Joint labs, supported by CIMAT, in a virtual/face-to-face modality.

A collaboration agreement was signed between SAPAL, a decentralized water management body, for the city of León Gto. and the AIAC.

He taught a small course on finite elements at the University of Guanajuato, in the Faculty of Civil Engineering. During his stay,  he also visited the Celaya Technological facilities, which expressed its interest in being part of the CIMNE Joint lab network.

«It has been a very productive visit, despite having had environmental contingencies, flight cancellations and volcanic eruptions», explains the professor.

SPEAKER CV

Francisco Zárate is an Associate Research Professor at CIMNE and Associated Lecturer at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), where he teaches Strength of Materials and Structural Analysis undergraduate courses (since 1997) and several courses at the master degree (since 1999).

He is the head of the online version of the Master on Numerical Methods in Engineering of the UPC.

Civil Engineer by the University of Guanajuato, México (1986), and by the Technical University of Catalonia (2004); M.Sc.in Numerical Methods (1991) and PhD in Structural Analysis (1996) by the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

He has been involved in several national and European competitive projects and several private consultancies in the field of computational mechanics. He is an expert in plate and shells problems, discrete elements and stochastic analysis.

He is a Board Member of the Mexican Society in Numerical Methods in Engineering and the author of many educational materials and programs like MAT-fem.