Sanchez Garitaonandia, Mikel (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
Cosmological thermal first-order phase transitions are assumed to proceed via the nucleation of bubbles and subsequent expansion and collision. The out-of-equilibrium physics involved during the collision ...
Arnan Vendrell, Pere (Date of defense: 2020-09-04)
Recently lepton flavor universality tests in colliders have reported tensions with the Standard Model, providing an experimental hint at low energies of the effect of a new high energy theory. These ...
Katanaeva, Alisa (Date of defense: 2021-02-10)
AdS/CFT correspondence combines ideas of holography and duality in a way that allows one to make calculations in the otherwise hardly accessible (strongly coupled) regime of the target theory. In this ...
Cortés Simó, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-01-21)
Flooding is one of the main natural hazard in the world causing huge economic and human impacts. Assessing the flood damage in the Mediterranean region is of great importance, mainly due to its pronounced ...
Rios Fukelman, Alan (Date of defense: 2022-07-06)
This thesis is devoted to the study of the planar regime of N = 2 Lagrangian 4−dimensional superconformal field theories. In the first part of the thesis we study the matrix models that describe such ...
Corrêa Volpini, Bruna (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
In the late 1990's, when sophisticated personal computers and electronic devices with miniaturized sensors were being mass produced, the concept of ambient intelligence (AmI) ...
Palacios Ruiz, Lucas Santiago (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
This thesis contains my doctoral research in condensed soft matter physics prepared at the University of Barcelona. It covers the interaction of active Janus particles with liquid-liquid and liquid-solid ...
Mezzina, Bianca (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural mode of climate variability in the tropical Pacific, which not only perturbs the local atmosphere, but whose impacts can also reach remote, extra-tropical ...
Martín Río, Sergi (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)
The direct manipulation of spin currents with no charges involved along with the delicate interplay between charge, spin and orbital degrees of freedom in materials and structures has attracted a renewed ...
Rodríguez i Ballester, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-05-06)
Tornadoes are the meteorological phenomenon which can produce the strongest surface wind on Earth, causing damage, injuries and fatalities. Several studies show that severe storm environments could be ...