Roberto Carlos Cabrales

Punta Blanca 02658 Puente Alto Santiago, RM Chile Phone : +56 2 8754109 Email : roberto.cabrales@prof.udp.cl Web : http://weblogs.udp.cl/rcabrales

Education
Ph. D. studies in Applied Mathematics. State University of Campinas, Brazil. (Include all basic and research courses plus qualifications exams). Master in Mathematics (2002), State University of Campinas, Brazil. Title of thesis: Some results for a class of nonlinear partial differential equations (in portuguese). Advisor: Marko Rojas Medar. B. Sc. In Mathematics (1997). National University of Colombia at Medelln, Colombia. Title of dissertation: The spectral theorem in finite dimension and the spectral theorem in Hilbert spaces for self-adjoint operators (in spanish). Advisor: Jorge Cossio.

Short Courses
Introduction to meshless methods (in spanish). In Third. Bolivarian Congress in Mechanical Engineering. Pontifical Catholic University of Per, Per. July 22-24, 2003. Introduction to Fortran (in portuguese). National Center for High Performance Computing in So Paulo (Cenapad) , Brazil. September 17-21, 2001. Introduction to Structural Calculus using MSC/NASTRAN and PATRAN (in portuguese). National Center for High Performance Computing in So Paulo (Cenapad) , Brazil. June 7-8, 2001. Introduction to High Performance Computing (in portuguese). National Center for High Performance Computing in So Paulo (Cenapad), Brazil. May 14-18, 2001.

Introduction to the linxu operational system (in portuguese). National Center for High Performance Computing in So Paulo (Cenapad) , Brazil. April 2-4, 2001. Summer School in Differential Geometry, Numerical Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. National University of Colombia at Medelln, Colombia. July 25- August 6, 1994.

Professional Experience
Nacional University of Colombia at Medelln. Colombia (1994-1997). Teacher assistant in Calculus I and III. Teacher assistant and Lecturer in Linear Algebra. State University of Campinas, Brazil (1999). Teacher assistant in Linear Algebra. Diego Portales University, Chile. (2003 until now). Lecturer in Linear Algebra and Numerical Methods.

Scholarships
Master Scholarship CNPq March 1998-February 2000. Ph.D. Scholarship CNPq- March 2000-February 2003.

Talks
Computation of Instabilities of a solidification process in axysymetrical domains: results using finite differences (in spanish). In Third Bolivarian Congress of Mechanical Engineering. June 22 24, 2003. Pontificial Catholic university of Per. Per. In CD-ROM. Usage of MATLAB in the numerical solution of partial differential equations (in portuguese). Short course of the XIX mathematical week. October 13 17, 2003. State University of Londrina, Brazil. Numerial solution of the convection-difussion equation by the finite volume method (in portuguese). Short course of the XX mathematical week. October 13 17, 2003. State University of Londrina, Brazil.

Research Interest
Numrical Analysis: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Heat Transfer, Finite Volume/Element Methods, Domain Decomposition Methods. Analysis of Partial Differential Equations of Fluid Mechanics.

Actually, working in the analysis and numerical simulation of the differential equation system modelling the solification phenomena of binary alloys.

Skills
Matlab, Fortran, Femlab, Unix, Latex.

Idioms
Portuguese, spanish and english.

References
Marko Rojas-Medar marko@ime.unicamp.br DMA-IMECC-UNICAMP Caixa postal 6065 Cep 13083-859 Campinas/SP Brasil Jorge Cossio jcossio@epm.net.co Escuela de Matemticas Universidad Nacional de Colombia-sede Medelln Apartado Areo 3840 Medelln, Antioquia Colombia