INTEC graduates a doctor in Mathematics from the Dominican Republic
Professor Miguel Antonio Leonardo Sepúlveda defended his thesis with a maximum grade of 100 and received Cum Laude honors, awarded by the jury made up of international experts in this area
SANTO DOMINGO. - The teacher Miguel Antonio Leonardo Sepulveda, from the Area of Basic and Environmental Sciences of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), He became the first graduate of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Mathematics, receiving his degree during the sixty-ninth graduation ceremony of this university.
Leonardo Sepúlveda defended his doctoral thesis: "Efficient resolution of nonlinear second-order EDPS: advances in iterative methods and finite differences" with a perfect grade of 100, obtaining Cum Laude honors awarded by a jury of international experts.
The Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Mathematics began in November 2019 as a result of the academic and scientific collaboration of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, and the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra with the technical and financial support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT).
The main objective of the PhD is to train high-level researchers and specialists, to strengthen research in mathematics in the Dominican Republic, to support productive development and national competitiveness, as well as to promote academic collaboration with international experts and researchers. In addition, it aims to increase the production of research and publications in mathematics, as well as to create academic and institutional structures to promote scientific research in the country.
This study program is the first PhD in Mathematics taught in the Dominican Republic, and has the international collaboration of prestigious researchers with a tradition in the field of mathematical research.
The PhD has an academic load of 68 credits, distributed in two cycles: the first cycle has 24 credits of basic training and the second cycle has 44 credits of specialized training and research that include the 20 credits for the development of the doctoral thesis. It has a minimum duration of three years and a maximum of five.