Rosa Agostinho, Nuno Filipe (Date of defense: 2019-10-17)
For more than half a century, colliders have been in the forefront of studying the Standard Model (SM) predictions. The pinnacle of both SM and colliders occurred when on July the 4th 2012, at CERN Large ...
Trejo Soto, Claudia Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Since Poiseuille times, several techniques has been developed to measure the viscosity of blood. During the 60's and 70's, with the appearance of the first rheomethers, the rheological properties of ...
Casanellas Vilageliu, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-03-22)
Wormlike micelles are viscoelastic fluids that present an intermediate behavior between solids and ordinary liquids since they are elastic at short time scales but flow easily at large time scales. In ...
Weber, Marc (Date of defense: 2014-06-06)
Stochastic fluctuations, or noise, are ubiquitous in biological systems and play an important role in many cellular processes. Experimental evidences have shown that noise affects the reliability of ...
Gómez Orlandi, Javier (Date of defense: 2015-09-09)
In this thesis we apply a multidisciplinary approach, based on statistical physics and complex systems, to the study of neuronal dynamics. We focus on understanding, using theoretical and computational ...
Melé Messeguer, Marina (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)
In this thesis we study and characterize the behavior of Bose-Einstein condensates in a BJJ, using two different theoretical formalisms: the mean-field approximation (with the Gross-Pitaevskii equation) ...
Formosa Jordan, Pau (Date of defense: 2013-04-29)
Multicellular organisms are constituted by different kinds of cells which are arranged in a particular way, forming tissues with specific functions. The organization of these different cells can give ...
Carbone, Arianna (Date of defense: 2014-04-11)
The quantum many-body problem is an everlasting challenge for theoretical physics. The aim sought is to analyze, at the quantum level, the observables arising from a group formed by a certain number of ...
Frigola Tubert, David (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)
Biological development is a complex process in which, from a single cell, a whole multicellular organism arises. The formation of this intrincate structures requires a very precise regulation in space ...
Palau Ortin, David (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
Cells, either as unicellular organisms or as part of a tissue of a multicellular organism, can acquire different functions thanks to their capability of changing their expression state. The enzyme ...