Brieden, Samuel (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)
[eng] Despite the successes of the cosmological ΛCDM model and having entered the "Precision Era of Cosmology" there are still open questions. The principal model ingredients, ΛCDM, contribute to ~95% ...
Oncins Fernández, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
The existence of black holes that go beyond the mass given by their stellar origin has been known for some time. On the lower end, a subset of primordial black holes (PBHs) could form all of the dark ...
Montaña Faiget, Glòria (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)
For many decades after the conception of the quark model in 1964, and the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) a few years later as the theory governing the strong interaction between quarks and ...
Bravo Prieto, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
Quantum algorithms showing promising speedups with respect to their classical counterparts already exist. However, noise limits the quantum circuit depth, making the practical implementation of many ...
Lu, Zujia (Date of defense: 2022-04-26)
Star formation is a fundamental and still largely unsolved problem of astrophysics and cosmology. Its complexity stems from the complex interaction of turbulence, magnetic fields and gravity, and from ...