Escala Ribas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Electronic voting presents many challenges due to its multiple security requirements. Some of the challenges are related to guaranteeing voters' privacy and system's transparency, which are hard to ...
Vegué, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)
Structure is fundamental in shaping the types of computations that neuronal circuits can perform. Explaining the laws that determine the connectivity properties of brain networks and their implications ...
Kiesenhofer, Anna (Date of defense: 2016-12-21)
The study of b-symplectic manifolds was initiated in 2012 by the works of Victor Guillemin, Eva Miranda and Ana Rita Pires (Adv. Math. 264 (2014), 864¿896). These manifolds, which can be understood as ...
Cardona Aguilar, Robert (Date of defense: 2021-05-26)
In this thesis, we make a deep investigation of the geometry and dynamics of several objects (singular or not) appearing in nature. The main goal is to study rigidity versus flexibility dynamical behavior ...
Mosaffa, Payman (Date of defense: 2017-11-11)
This thesis presents a hybrid vertex/cell-centred approach to mechanically simulate planar cellular monolayers undergoing cell reorganisation. Cell centres are represented by a triangular nodal network, ...
Li, Bin (Date of defense: 2016-03-08)
Fracture mechanics of brittle materials has focused on bulk materials with isotropic surface energy. In this situation different physical principles for crack path selection are very similar or even ...
Miranda Neiva, Eric (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
This thesis addresses large-scale numerical simulations of partial differential equations posed on evolving geometries. Our target application is the simulation of metal additive manufacturing (or 3D ...
Grau Gotés, Ma. Àngela (Maria Àngela) (Date of defense: 2015-01-28)
Many of the problems in experimental sciences and other disciplines can be expressed in the form of nonlinear equations. The solution of these equations is rarely obtained in closed form. With the ...
Coltraro Ianniello, Franco (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)
(Eng) In this work we study various mathematical problems arising from the robotic manipulation of cloth. First, we develop a locking-free continuous model for the physical simulation of inextensible ...
Casazza, Daniele (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Let K|Q be a number field and let Z(K,s) be its associated complex L-function. The analytic class number formula relates special values of Z(K,s) with algebraic invariants of the field K itself. It ...