Events Calendar

Seminar "Perception of insecurity and interpersonal violence".

Seminar "Perception of insecurity and interpersonal violence".

The studies "Sobre la victimización por violencia interpersonal en Chile" and "Propuesta de Índice de Percepción de Inseguridad" will be presented by Fabián Duarte, director of the Economics Department, and Lorena Flores, executive director of the Microdata Center. Both studies will be commented by a panel of experts formed by...

Inaugural Class Bioengineering Career UdC: Artificial Reasoning and GPT | Marcelo Mendoza

Inaugural Class Bioengineering Career UdC: Artificial Reasoning and GPT | Marcelo Mendoza

On this occasion, the inaugural lecture will be given by Dr. Marcelo Mendoza Rocha, an academic from the Department of Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who will give a talk entitled "Artificial Reasoning and ChatGPT: towards a general AI system based on the...

Seminar "Perception of insecurity and interpersonal violence".

Seminar "Perception of insecurity and interpersonal violence".

The Microdata Center (CMD) of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, together with the Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention (SPD) are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the studies On the victimization by interpersonal violence in Chile and Proposal of a new methodology for the prevention of crime....

Presidential Seminar 2025: AI, Transparency and Democracy

Presidential Seminar 2025: AI, Transparency and Democracy

📅 Friday, April 11 | 9.30 am We invite you to the seminar Presidential 2025: AI, Transparency and Democracy, which will address the impact of artificial intelligence in election campaigns, in addition to its relationship with transparency and democracy. In this opportunity the IMFD researcher, Sebastián Valenzuela, academic @fcomuc, will be participating in the panel...

Launching of "Juegos de niñas y namby-pamby: una breve memoria no binaria" (Girl games and namby-pamby: a brief non-binary memory).

Launching of "Juegos de niñas y namby-pamby: una breve memoria no binaria" (Girl games and namby-pamby: a brief non-binary memory).

📅 Monday, April 14 | 5.30 pm We invite you to the launch of: "Juegos de niñas y ñoños: una breve memoria no binaria", a book by ChaTo (Carlos Castillo), edited by Trazos de Aves. Carlos Castillo (they/them) is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he leads the research group Web Science and Social...

Gender stereotypes and body image concerns in diet and fitness forums.

Gender stereotypes and body image concerns in diet and fitness forums.

📆Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | 13.30 ABSTRACT Gender expectations about ideal body types can lead to body image concerns, dissatisfaction, and, in extreme cases, eating disorders and other psychopathology. This talk presents a study of gender expectations and body ideals in communities in...

Book presentation of Juan Pablo Luna's book: "Democracia Muerta" (Dead Democracy).

Book presentation of Juan Pablo Luna's book: "Democracia Muerta" (Dead Democracy).

ABSTRACT Democracia Muerta (Dead Democracy) is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna on Latin America and Chile that argues that the problems facing democracies in the region today do not originate in institutional politics, but in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the game....

Presentation of Transit Management Project for Public Challenges

Presentation of Transit Management Project for Public Challenges

At IMFD's Innovation and Technology Transfer Department, we developed a prototype that consolidates various digital data sources, including GPS bus data (from public transportation), private/private use data, incident reports on social networks (X) and data used by the Operational Unit of Traffic Control (UOCT) to monitor aspects of traffic control....