2015 Yearbook -Universidad ORT Uruguay

80 2015 Yearbook ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES ABROAD 2015 Dr. Martín Solari (China) Associate Professor of Software Engineering. He participated in the annual meeting of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN), Beijing, October 19 and 20. Ilan Cohn (Spain) Lecturer in Differential and Integral Calculus. He presented the papers “Order of Grover’s search algorithm with both total and local depolarizing channel error” 5 and “Characterization of errors in quantum circuits: isotropy index for n-qubit states” 6 at the 35th Biennial Meeting of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, Gijón, July 13–17. Dr. Lorena Betancor (United States) Research Professor of Biotechnology. She presented the article “Biomimetic silica nanospheres: a versatile nanotool for protein immobilization” 7 at the Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications X conference, San Francisco, February 7–12. She presented the paper “Silica-enzyme nanohybrids for biocatalysis” 8 at The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem 2015), organized by Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, December 15–20. A/P Víctor Paulós (United States) Academic Secretary of the School of Technology. He participated in the Coursera Partner Conference as a co-partner with the University of Edinburgh, an institution with which Universidad ORT Uruguay two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Spanish and English in March 2015, titled “A Programar” and “Code Yourself,” in California, March 1–3. 5 Conducted together with André Fonseca de Oliveira, Ph.D., professor of Analog Electronics and Automatic Control; Efrain Buksman, Ph.D., associate professor of Physics; and Jesús García López, Ph.D., director of the University School of Computer Science at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. 6 Conducted by André Fonseca de Oliveira, Efrain Buksman, Jesús García López, and Francisco García Mazarío, Deputy Director of Economic Affairs at the University School of Computer Science and the Higher Technical School of Computer Systems Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. 7 Conducted in collaboration with Erienne Jackson, B.S., research assistant at the Biotechnology Laboratory; Mariana Ferrari, B.S., coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory; Dr. Valeria Grazú; and Dr. Jesús Martínez de la Fuente, researchers at the Aragon Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. 8 Conducted in collaboration with Erienne Jackson, B.S., research teaching assistant for the Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology; Mariana Ferrari, B.S., coordinator of the Biotechnology Laboratory; Diego Cazabán, B.S., graduate of the Bachelor’s Degree in Biotechnology and member of the Biotechnology Research Team; and Prof. Sonali Correa, research professor in Biotechnology.