Venturini, Chiara (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Integrin-based cell adhesion is a key mechanism in fundamental biological processes such as cell migration and wound healing, and in diseases like osteoporosis and cancer. For example, during migration, ...
Deutschmann, Ina Maria (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
There is a myriad of microorganisms on Earth contributing to global biogeochemical cycles, and their interactions are considered pivotal for ecosystem function. Previous studies have already determined ...
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 ...
Wötzel, Maximilian (Date of defense: 2022-01-26)
The results in this thesis concern extremal and probabilistic topics in number theoretic settings. We prove sufficient conditions on when certain types of integer solutions to linear systems of equations ...
Paita, Fabrizio (Date of defense: 2017-09-04)
In this thesis we consider the problem of developing distributed control strategies for spacecraft formation flying. In light of possible interferometric applications, the study is conducted in two ...
Ramos Garrido, Lander (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
In this thesis we use analytic combinatorics to deal with two related problems: graph enumeration and random graphs from constrained classes of graphs. We are interested in drawing a general picture of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Montserrat Adell, Jordi (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
Decision-making is an active field of research. Specifically, in recent times, a lot of contributions have been presented on decision-making under linguistic assessments. To tackle this kind of processes, ...
Calvo Schwarzwälder, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-07-12)
For 200 years, Fourier’s law has been used to describe heat transfer with excellent results. However, as technology advances, more and more situations arise where heat conduction is not well described ...