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CECs, Centro de Estudios Científicos (Center for Scientific Studies) is a private, non-profit corporation, devoted to the development, promotion and diffusion of scientific research. CECs was founded in 1984 as the Center for Scientific Studies of Santiago and has since been directed by physicist Claudio Bunster.

“If you plan to make a voyage of discovery, choose a ship of small draught”

Captain James Cook rejecting the large ships offered by the Admiralty for the search of a new continent.

Successful closure of the 2015 “Be a scientist for a fortnight” program

The curious case of a “simple” monopole in a “complex” space

These mythical entities of quantum field physics, which have resisted being detected for decades, seem, at least in theory, to get simpler when they are described in complex spaces.

monopolos

Monopoles in non-Abelian gauge invariance theories are one of the most prominent configurations in Yang-Mills-Higgs field theories.

They have been extensively analysed since the 70’s because of close connections with the problem of confinement of quarks and gluons (which is one of the greatest open questions in the field of high energy physics).