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Imperial College Mexican Society
Activity Report 2008
Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB
Imperial College Mexican Society
ACTIVITY REPORT
The major event organized by the Imperial College Mexican Society in association with the Society of Mexican Students in the United Kingdom (MexSoc UK) was the 6th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies which was held at the Sir Alexander Flemming building of the South Kensington campus on the 28th and 29th of June 2008. The objective of the symposium was to provide a forum for Mexican and foreign students to present their work and exchange knowledge and ideas. It was also an opportunity for foreign students working on Mexico-related projects to share and discuss their research with Mexican nationals. The event consisted of an academic program which included oral presentations, workshop sessions and meetings with Mexican personalities of the scientific community. Among the guests that attended our symposium were Juan José Bremer de Martino, Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, M.Sc. Silvia Alvarez and Dr. Luis Gil representatives from the from the Mexican Council for Science and Technology (CONACyT) and Dr. Sharon Bolton from the International Office at Imperial College. In total, 143 students from universities around the United Kingdom participated in this great event. A variety of topics were presented at the symposium ranging from biological science and engineering to political science and art. During the two days of the symposium we provided free lunch to the attendees and coffee breaks . The lunch provided consisted of a variety of Mexican food such as “Tacos”, “salsas”, beans, “mole” and Mexican beer. We were able to provide free lunch thanks, free coffee and no symposium fees thanks to the sponsorship of the Mexican Embassy, Tonantzin UK ltd, International Office IC, and the Imperial College Union. As part of our social event, we organized a Mexican Party Night at the “Mestizo” Restaurant on the Saturday night of June 28th. We organized several social events with the members of the society at the Union Bar. We count with a stock of Salsas that will be sold to members of the society in order to raise funds to organize future events. We also set up a stand in the Freshers’ Fair.
Luis Dominguez President
Imperial College Mexican Society (2008-2009)
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Imperial College Mexican Society
APPENDIX 1
6th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies
28-29
June, 2008
Imperial College
London, UK
6th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies
Contact: Mexican Society
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
Phone: 07506561068 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7594 6606
E-mail:
28-29 June 2008
Dear all,
The Mexican Society at Imperial College London (MexSoc IC) and the Society of Mexican Students
in the United Kingdom (MexSoc UK) are proud to invite you to the 6th Symposium of Mexican
Students and Studies.
The Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies is an annual meeting associated with the MexSoc
UK. The aim of this meeting is to provide a forum for Mexican students to present their work,
exchange knowledge and ideas. Also, the symposium is an opportunity for students from all
nationalities working on Mexico-related projects to share and discuss their research with Mexican
nationals. Finally, the event is an excellent opportunity for networking.
This year the Symposium is organized by the MexSoc IC and will take place at the South Kensington
Campus. The event will consist of an academic program which includes oral presentations, workshop
sessions and a meeting with Mexican personalities of the scientific community. If you are interested
in presenting your work and/or participating in the workshops follow the registration process:
1) Go on the web site: http://www.mexsoc.org.uk/php
2) Sign up as a student.
3) Register for the Symposium by sending an abstract about your research/topic (~300 words)
The deadline for registering is on June, 15th 2008. Any questions related to the event, please send
an e-mail to [email protected]
We look forward to see you at what has always been a very exciting event.
Best regards,
Luis Dominguez Palomeque
MexSoc IC
Luis Castro Quiroa
MexSoc UK
Program
Saturday, 28-06-2008
09:00 Registration/Coffee
10:00 Opening Ceremony
Juan José Bremer de Martino, Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom and
Northern Ireland
10:30 Dr. Luis Gil and MSc. Silvia Alvarez Bruneliere, Conacyt
11:30 Dr Rene Drucker Colin, UNAM
12:30 Lunch Break
13:30 Workshop session 1
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Ministro Victor Hugo Morales (Embajada de Mexico en Belgica-UE)
16:30 Workshop session 2
20:00 Mexican party at Mestizo [http://www.mestizomx.com]
09:00 Workshop session 3
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dr. Jose Bernardo Rosas Fernandez
Chairman for the Branch of Mexico, St Catharine's College, Univ of Cambridge, UK
“Los científicos jóvenes formados en el extranjero en el desarrollo de México ”
12:00 Lunch (Mexican Menu)
14:00 Daniel Dultzin Tonantzin
Chicza & Cordis
15:00 Closing Ceremony
Program
Sunday, 29-06-2008
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Imperial College Mexican Society
APPENDIX 2
6th Symposium of Mexican Students and Studies.
Talks Schedule
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Workshop session 1 (Saturday 28 June 2008, 13:30-15:30) Materials Sciences (room G16) 1. Pavel Ernesto Ramirez Lopez - Imperial College London
A coupled model to simulate the solidification inside the continuous casting slab mold (#72) 2. Eduardo Trejo Escalona - University of Birmingham
Optimizing the centrifugal casting of titanium aluminide alloys (#86) 3. Aaron Alejandro Aguilar Espinosa - Oxford Brookes University
Analysis of fatigue crack growth under variable amplitude load (#2) 4. Ruben Cuamatzi Melendez - The University of Sheffield
3D Cellular Automa Finite Element Modelling of the Ductile-Brittle Transition (#21) 5. Eddie Lopez Honorato - The University of Manchester
The High Temperature Reactor and the Renaissance of the Nuclear Energy (#42) 6. J. Miguel Mora Fonz
The nucleation of Zeolites (#61) 7. Agustin Valera Medina - Cardiff University
Recognition of Large Coherent Structures in Swirl Burners (#90) Biological Sciences (room G34) 1. Einar Vargas Bello Perez - University of Nottingham
Trans fatty acids in milk of dairy cows (#91) 2. David Alejandro Contreras Caro del Castillo -University of Nottingham
Development of Germ Cells in Pigs (#19) 3. Julio Granados Montiel - King’s College London
Serum free directed differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells: Interplay between RhoA and steroid pathways (#31)
4. Leticia Kuri Cervantes - Imperial College London Cell death by suicide in cytotoxic lymphocyte populations and natural killer cell subsets from HIV-1+ infected patients (#38)
5. Roberto A. Saenz - University of Cambridge Simple mathematical models for the immune response against influenza virus (#81)
6. Sergio Mares Samano - The University of Manchester Computer-aided design of inhibitors of drug-efflux transporters (#48)
7. Cesar Lopez Camacho - The University of Manchester Role of the Runx family of transcription factors and CBF-beta in cancer and myogenesis (#40)
Engineering and Computer Science (room 119) 1. Emilio Hugues Salas - University of Essex
Optical Core and Access Telecommunication Networks (#34) 2. Daniel Espinobarro Velazquez - University of Cambridge
Multi-user Interference Investigation for Optical CDMA Networks with high speed low cost electronics (#24)
3. Marco Aurelio Cardenas Juarez - University of Leeds Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio (#13)
4. Jorge Orozco-Vargas - Brunel University Developing a taxonomy for the understanding of business and IT alignment paradigms and tools (#65)
5. Rocio Aldeco - University of Southampton Provenance-based Auditing of Private Data (#4)
6. Abraham Rodriguez Mota - The University of Sheffield Documenting software in Extreme Programming (#78)
Education (room 120) 1. Xicotencatl Martinez-Ruiz - Lancaster University
Samvit. On Abhinavagupta’s concept of consciousness in the Malinivijayavarttika, 2, (verses 1-108) (#51) 2. Juan Carlos Barron Pastor - University of East Anglia
Coming back home with researcher eyes: A preliminary review on fieldwork (#10) 3. Alaidde Berenice Villanueva Aguilera - The University of York
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Dissertation: Systematic Review of Experimental Studies in Teaching Reading Learner Strategies (#95) 4. Elia Lorena Lopez - The University of York
Barriers in Lower-Secondary Education: Representative Cases in Oaxaca, Mexico (#39) 5. Maria del Pilar Carino Sarabia - The London School of Economics and Political Science
The contribution of the concept of political space to the participation debate in the case of the initiative “Chiapas Solidario” (#14)
6. Diego Gonzalez The perception of Mexican students about UK education (#97)
Economics (room 121) 1. Adriana Duque - University of Cambridge
Remote Teamworking - Sharing Knowledge through Technology (#23) 2. Sylvie Lozano - Cardiff University
The Born Global Phenomenon in Mexico: A Bright Start for Technology Intensive StartUps (#45) 3. Lorena Ruiz Garcia - University of Essex
Globalisation and the Internationalisation of Mexican SMEs in European Markets (#80) 4. Fabiola M. Lopez Gomez - University of East Anglia
Outsourcing in the Mexican manufacturing industry (#41) 5. Beatriz Itzel Cruz
A critical examination of strategic role design management to improve the performance of a small Mexican technology based enterprise (#20)
Social and Political Sciences (room 122) 1. Claudia Ituarte-Lima - University College London
Latin America and engaged research: lessons learned from co-convening the UCL-Goldsmiths Latin America Workshop (#35)
2. Martha Merlo-Huerta - The University of Sussex A political analysis of peasants’ policy proposals in Mexico (#56)
3. Maria del Rosario Ponce de Leon Torres - Lancaster University The Legal Incorporation of the Right to Water through legislative reforms (#68)
4. Nelson Mojarro - University of Sussex Implementation of biofuels in oil firms, unlocking a path dependency? (#59)
5. Jose Luis Alvarez Galvan - The London School of Economics and Political Science Work in front-line services of the new economy: the case of Mexican call centres (#5)
6. Rafael Guerrero Rodriguez - University of East Anglia Policy Process analysis: actors, policy networks and power relations in the configuration of Cancun as a Tourist destination (#32)
Workshop session 2 (Saturday 28 June 2008, 16:30-18:00) Chemical Engineering (room 119) 1. Rogelio Valadez Blanco - Imperial College London
A membrane bioreactor for biotransformations using organic solvent nanofiltration membranes (#88) 2. David Juarez-Romero - Imperial College London
Increasing the fidelity of a dynamics distillation model for ethanol production (#37) 3. Jorge Arturo Arizmendi Sanchez - The University of Manchester
Phenomena-based modularisation of chemical process models to approach intensive options (#7) 4. Luis Felipe Dominguez Palomeque - Imperial College London
Multparametric Optimisation and Control of Continuous-Discrete Multilevel Systems (#22) 5. Eduardo Luna-Ortiz - Imperial College London
Produccion de gas y petroleo en aguas profundas: retos tecnologicos y oportunidades de Investigacion (#46)
Bioinformatics and Biotechnology (room120) 1. Alain Coletta - The University of Manchester
An extensible workbench for undertaking and disseminating in silico research (#18) 2. Juan Leonardo Martinez - The University of Sheffield
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Metallic nanoparticles as contrast agents for optical detection of cancer (#49) 3. Miriam Veronica Flores-Merino - The University of Sheffield
Nanofunctionalization of Hydrogels (#25)
Physical Sciences (room 121) 1. Fernanda Samaniego - University of Cambridge
Measure Zero Problem in Statistical Mechanics (#82) 2. Cesar S. Lopez-Monsalvo - University of Southampton
Causal Thermodynamics (#43) 3. Cristhian Avila-Sanchez - University of Leeds
Quantum Fields: How can they be used to perform Quantum-Relativistic Computation? (#9) 4. Israel Rocha Mendoza - Cardiff University
The CARS Microscope Implemented at Cardiff University (#77) 5. Carlos Alberto Macias Romero - Imperial College London
Confocal Micropolarimetry (#47)
Public Health and Medical Informatics (room G16) 1. Luis Ulises Hernandez Munoz - University of Birmingham
A Personal Health Device to Help Patients with Severe Allergies in a Mobile-Context-Aware Scenario (#33)
2. Juan Jesus Adriano Moran - City University London Towards a Telecare System Framework using an SD Approach (#1)
3. Lupita Jocelin Reyes Silveyra - University of Birmingham Automated methods of dental plaque detection and its application in clinical trials (#74)
4. Aida Jimenez Gonzalez - University of Southampton Extracting sources from noisy abdominal phonograms: a single-channel Blind Source Separation approach (#36)
5. Yadira Gonzalez Studies of stickiness in relation to oral processing (#29)
Anthropology and Art (room 122) 1. Sitna Quiroz Uria - The London School of Economics and Political Science
Breaking with the Past and the Family: Analysing patron-client relations and corruption through the lens of religious conversion, in the Republic of Benin (#70)
2. Marcel Reyes-Cortez - Goldsmiths, University of London Visual research in the cemeteries of Alvaro Obregon, Mexico City (#73)
3. Iliana Mendoza Villafuerte - University College London The body in portraits of dead nuns in New Spain: life and death alike denied (#54)
4. Sergio Gonzalez Varela Power Symbolism and Play in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira (#30)
Social and Political Sciences (room G34) 1. Edgardo Bolio Arceo - Oxford Brookes University
Urban growth transformations and place identity: the case of Merida (#11) 2. Gisela Robles Aguilar - University of Oxford
Poverty measurement in Mexico (#76) 3. Cristy Haydee Robledo Escobedo - The University of Sussex
International Remittances as tool of development: a reality or a myth? (#75) 4. Hernan Gomez - The University of Sussex
Progressive ideologies in development: The transformation of the Brazilian Workers’ Party way of governing (1995-2008) (#28)
Workshop session 3 (Sunday 29 June 2008, 9:00-10:30) Earth Sciences (room 119) 1. Dulce M. Vargas Bracamontes
Volcano-tectonic earthquakes: assessing the factors that impact their generation (#92)
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2. Carolina Cavazos Guerra - University College London Regional model simulation of mineral dust emission/transport and the impact on the Earth’s climate system (#17)
3. Arnoldo Matus Kramer - University of Oxford Adaptive Capacity of the Hotel Industry to Climate Change in the Mexican Caribbean Coast (#53)
4. Tizbe Teresa Arteaga Reyes - The University of York Constraints to Effective Water Conservation in Densely Populated Catchments. Case Study: The Upper Lerma River Basin, Mexico (#8)
Biology and Biotechnology (room G16) 1. Luis Villavicencio Enriquez - University of East Anglia
The canopy tree species composition in traditional and rustic coffee systems: The effect of changes in on leaf-litter contribution, leaf-litter quality and the effect in the rates of decomposition in Sierra de Atoyac, Veracruz, Mexico (#96)
2. Francisco Federico Nunez de Caceres Gonzalez - University of Nottingham Modification of the stature of ornamental plants for commercial improvement (#63)
3. Mateo Mier y Teran Gimenez Cacho - University of Oxford Global Value Chains and Biotechnology: Governing Small Farmers’ Use of Genetically Modified Soybean in Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil (#57)
4. Juan Manuel Casanueva - The University of Manchester REDDES - Partnering nature with technology for a sustainable life (#15)
5. Rafael Calderon - University of East Anglia Impacts of land reform over indigenous’ access to natural resources in Mexico (#12)
Engineering and Computer Science (room 120) 1. Ernesto Elias Vidal Rosas - The University of Sheffield
Neuro-imaging using Diffuse Optical Tomography (#94) 2. Marcelo Romero-Huertas - The University of York
3D face facial feature localization (#79) 3. Juan Gabriel Olarte Garcia - University College London
Argumentation with relevance (#64) 4. Daniel Aguirre - University of Birmingham
Hybrid Propulsion Systems in Railways (#3)
Bioethics (room 121) 1. Israel Ortiz Villar - Imperial College London
La responsabilidad profesional de los medicos por la mala praxis (#66) 2. Maria de Jesus Arellano - The University of Manchester
The notion of “Human Dignity” in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (#6) 3. Ernesto Schwartz
The Cartographies of Mexican Genomic Sovereignty: navigating at the boundaries of possibility, biomedicine and democracy (#84)
4. Christian Lopez-Silva - The University of Sheffield A trade and environment conceptual framework to address biotechnology regulation and the EC Biotech dispute (2006) (#44)
Criminology (room 122) 1. Tania Guadalupe Garcia - University of Birmingham
The applicability and potential of a community policing model for Mexico City (#26) 2. Gema Santamaria Balmaceda - The London School of Economics and Political Science
Gangs and violence in Central America: myths and realities (#83) 3. Nayeli Montero Rodriguez - University of Birmingham
Assessment of the Threats Posed by Transnational Organised Crime: Security Implications of Drug Trafficking in Mexico (#60)
NOTE: all presentations will be at the Sir Alexander Fleming building