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    A theoretical and computational study of the interaction between biomembranes and curved proteins 

    Tozzi, Caterina (Date of defense: 2021-04-30)

    Organelles are the smallest functional parts of eukaryotic cells. Among them, some are membrane-bound such as the nucleus, the endoplasmic reticulum, or the Golgi apparatus, each of them with essential biological functions. ...

    A hesitant fuzzy perceptual-based approach to model linguistic assessments 

    Porro Martorell, Olga (Date of defense: 2021-04-07)

    Multiple-criteria or multiple-attribute group decision-making is a sub-field of operations research that seek to find a common and representative solution given the preferences elicited by a pre-defined group, over a set ...

    Long-term privacy in electronic voting systems 

    Costa Miranda, Núria (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)

    This PhD thesis focuses on lattice-based cryptography and how to apply it to build post-quantum online voting systems. It is the result of the research done by the author at Scytl in close collaboration with Dr. Paz Morillo, ...

    Special values of the triple product p-adic L-function 

    Gatti, Francesca (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

    Let E be an elliptic curve defined over the field of rational numbers and let f be the corresponding newform of weight 2. Let g,h be two weight one newforms whose nebentype characters are mutually inverse. Let V be the ...

    Arithmetic applications of the Euler systems of Beilinson-Flach elements and diagonal cycles 

    Rivero Salgado, Óscar (Date of defense: 2021-02-12)

    The main objective of this dissertation is the exploration of certain arithmetic applications of the Euler systems of Beilinson--Flach elements and diagonal cycles. Euler systems have been proved to be a very powerful tool ...

    Active superelasticity in three-dimensional epithelia of controlled shape 

    Latorre Ibars, Ernest (Date of defense: 2021-02-19)

    Fundamental processes in development and physiology are determined by the three-dimensional architecture of epithelial sheets. How these sheets deform and fold into complex structures has remained unclear, however, because ...

    New geometrical and dynamical techniques for problems in celestial mechanics 

    Braddell, Róisín (Date of defense: 2021-02-17)

    In this thesis, we study the application of symplectic geometry, regular and singular, to symplectic dynamical systems.We start with a motivating case: the relation between symplectic foliations and global transverse ...

    bm-Symplectic manifolds: symmetries, classification and stability 

    Planas Bahí, Arnau (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)

    This thesis explores classification and perturbation problems for group actions on a class of Poisson manifolds called $b^m$-Poisson manifolds. $b^m$-Poisson manifolds are manifolds which are symplectic away from a ...

    Development of a Large-Eddy simulation framework for engineering applications using the finite element method 

    Chrysokentis, Georgios (Date of defense: 2019-04-03)

    This thesis develops a large eddy simulation framework for engineering applications using the finite element method. It focuses on the numerical formulation, the wall modelling approach as well as the generation of turbulent ...

    Desarrollo de un sistema de monitorización de la integridad estructural para aplicaciones en ingeniería mediante técnicas de reducción de la dimensionalidad 

    Agis Cherta, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

    This thesis describes a structural health monitoring (SHM) strategy to detect and classify changes in structures that can be equipped with sensors. SHM is an area of great interest, because its main objective is to verify ...

    Estudio y caracterización de soluciones para juegos cooperativos y bicooperativos 

    Domènech i Blàzquez, Margarita (Date of defense: 2020-11-24)

    The first part of this thesis focuses on cooperative games and specifically on the study of semivalues and probabilistic values. Each semivalue, as a solution concept defined on cooperative games with a finite set of ...

    Global Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic manifolds 

    Oms, Cédric (Date of defense: 2020-10-02)

    In this thesis, we study the Reeb and Hamiltonian dynamics on singular symplectic and contact manifolds. Those structures are motivated by singularities coming from classical mechanics and fluid dynamics. We start by ...

    Locally adaptive phase-field models and transition to fracture 

    Muixí Ballonga, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-11-30)

    This thesis proposes a new computational model for the efficient simulation of crack propagation, through the combination of a phase-field model in small subdomains around crack tips and a discontinuous model in the rest ...

    (1, ≤ ℓ)-identifying codes in digraphs and graphs 

    Martínez Barona, Berenice (Date of defense: 2020-09-14)

    The main subject of this PhD thesis is the study of (1,=l)-identifying codes in digraphs. The results presented in this work are divided into three parts. The first one focusses on the structural properties of digraphs ...

    Diffusion processes and nanoparticle growth 

    Fanelli, Claudia (Date of defense: 2020-09-15)

    Es conocido que muchas propiedades de las nanopartículas, como la luminiscencia, la fotoestabilidad, la eficiencia de la radiación óptica y las propiedades eléctricas, dependen del tamaño. Por lo tanto, la capacidad de ...

    Additive structures and randomness in combinatorics 

    Spiegel, Christoph (Date of defense: 2020-07-03)

    Arithmetic Combinatorics, Combinatorial Number Theory, Structural Additive Theory and Additive Number Theory are just some of the terms used to describe the vast field that sits at the intersection of Number Theory and ...

    Generalized Delaunay triangulations : graph-theoretic properties and algorithms 

    Cano Vila, María del Pilar (Date of defense: 2020-06-25)

    This thesis studies different generalizations of Delaunay triangulations, both from a combinatorial and algorithmic point of view. The Delaunay triangulation of a point set S, denoted DT(S), has vertex set S. An edge uv ...

    Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curves and Yano's conjecture 

    Blanco Fernández, Guillem (Date of defense: 2020-04-16)

    The main aim of this thesis is the study of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curve singularities. In this context, we prove a conjecture posed by Yano about the generic b-exponents of a plane irreducible curve. In ...

    Algebraic and algorithmic aspects of Zm × Fn : fixed subgroups and quantification of inertia 

    Roy, Mallika (Date of defense: 2020-02-12)

    This work is based on the family of groups Z^m x F_n, namely free-abelian times free groups, direct products of finitely many copies of Z and a finitely generated free group F_n. These are a special type of right-angled ...

    Estimates and rigidity for stable solutions to some nonlinear elliptic problems 

    Miraglio, Pietro (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)

    My thesis deals with the study of elliptic PDE. It is divided into two parts, the first one concerning a nonlinear equation involving the p-Laplacian, and the second one focused on a nonlocal problem. In the first part, ...