Open webinar: Introduction to Rust in Water Resources - 29 Abr 2025

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
6:00 PM 7:00 PM 18:00 19:00

Avenida Caminos del Inca 288 Surco, Lima Peru (map)

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Rust, a modern systems programming language known for its performance and safety, is emerging as a powerful tool in scientific computing, including the field of water resources analysis. Traditionally dominated by languages like Python, R, and Fortran, the hydrological sciences are increasingly embracing Rust for its ability to combine low-level control with high-level abstractions. Rust’s strong memory safety guarantees, zero-cost abstractions, and efficient concurrency make it ideal for handling large datasets, simulation models, and real-time environmental data streams.

In water resources analysis, where precision and reliability are crucial, Rust provides a compelling alternative for developing scalable and maintainable software. This is an applied case of analysis of water resources data with Rust. The example covers all steps from Rust installation under WSL, definition of the required packages, import tabular data, and the configuration of a Polars dataframe. All the programming and execution in Rust is done in Visual Studio Code.

Instructor

Saul Montoya M.Sc

Hydrogeologist - Numerical Modeler

Mr. Montoya is a Civil Engineer graduated from the Catholic University in Lima with postgraduate studies in Management and Engineering of Water Resources (WAREM Program) from Stuttgart University – Germany with mention in Groundwater Engineering and Hydroinformatics. Mr Montoya has a strong analytical capacity for the interpretation, conceptualization and modeling of the surface and underground water cycle and their interaction. He is in charge of numerical modeling for contaminant transport and remediation systems of contaminated sites. Inside his hydrological and hydrogeological investigations Mr. Montoya has developed an holistic comprehension of the water cycle, understanding and quantifying the main hydrological dynamic process of precipitation, runoff, evaporation and recharge to the groundwater system.