Tuesday, September 20th

10:00 Ph.D. Defense Víctor Riquelme (Universidad de Chile & Université de Montpellier).  Optimal control problems for bioremediation of water resources – abstract – slides

15:00 Ph.D. Defense Alejandro Rojas (Universidad de Chile & Université de Montpellier). Study of some Problems in Modelling and Optimization of Bioprocesses – abstract – slides

17h30 Cocktail reception

Wednesday, September 21th

09:15 – 09:30 Reception

09:30 – 10:30 Keynote speaker: Denis Dochain (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium). Automatic Control and Biological Systems: A Long Quiet River? – abstract – slides

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Raimund Bürger (Universidad de Concepción, Chile). A Model of Continuous Sedimentation with Compression and Reactions – abstract – slides
11:30 – 12:00  Alain Rapaport (Inra, France). About “Non-Conventional” Observers for Bioprocesses – abstract – slides
12:00 – 12:30 Daniel Navia (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile). Real Time Optimization for Online Process Improvement – abstract –  slides

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch (included)

14:30 – 15:00 Jérôme Harmand (Inra, France). Overyielding in Microbial Ecosystems : What can we Learn from Modeling – abstract  – slides
15:00 – 15:30 María Elena Lienqueo (Universidad de Chile, Chile). Mathematical modeling for simulating chromatographic curves of proteins – abstract  – slides
15:30 – 16:00  Andrés Donoso (PUCV & Inria, Chile). Applied Mathematical Modeling in Bioprocess. Focusing on Industrial Transfer in the Chilean Waste Management Sector – abstract – slides

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00 Antoine Rousseau (Inria, France). Bioprocess Modeling: with PDEs or ODEs? – abstract – slides
17:00 – 17:30 Matthieu Sebbah (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile). Optimization of the Concentration Changes in a Chemostat with One Species under Biomass Retention – abstract – slides
17:30 – 18:00 Wrap-up discussion

Thursday, September 22th

Morning and lunch: free

14:00 – 14:30 Student  session Camilo Mejías & Julio Careaga (U. de Concepción, Concepción, Chile). Simulations of reactive settling of activated sludge with a reduced biokinetic model – abstract – slides
14:30 – 15:00 Student session Antoine Haddon (DIM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile).  Optimal control of biogas production in anaerobic digestion bioreactors – abstract  – slides
15:00 – 15:30 Student session Diego Vicencio M. (UTFSM – PUCV – UV, Valparaíso, Chile). Comparison of performance in an anaerobic digestion process: sequential vs non sequential models – abstract  – slides

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:30 Student session Pablo Ugalde S. (DIM, Universidad de Chile, Chile).  CO2 Emissions Reduction in Oil Refineries – abstract  – slides
16:30 – 17:00 Gabriela Sandoval (Universidad de Chile). Design of a real biotechnological multiproduct batch plant with an optimization based approach – abstract – slides
17:00 – 17:30 Student session Manuel Ble (Universidad de Guanajuato). Development of a Strategy for Extremum Seeking Control in a UASB-Reactor – abstract – slides
17:30 – 18:00 Wrap-up discussion