IMTech offers 4 studentships for UPC undergraduate and master’s students within the program «INIREC: Beques d’Iniciació a la recerca» Dates for applying: from February 22 to March 3Duration: from April 1 to September 30Dedication: 20 hours per week Amount: 525 euros per month The studentships have been awarded to (tutors in brackets): Ferran Arqué (Toni Guillamon and Tomás […]
David Codony defended his PhD thesis Mathematical and computational modeling of flexoelectricity at mesoscopic and atomistic scales (pdf) on March 1st 2021, supervised by Professor Irene Arias in the Mechanics of Electroactive Materials research group in LaCàN, within the UPC doctoral program in Applied Mathematics. During his doctoral training he also joined the MP&M group in Georgia Tech
(IMTech–UPC and ICREA). Received 24 Feb, 2021. The paper [1] solves a semilinear version of Hilbert’s XIXth problem that remained open since the 1970s. In dimensions n ≤ 9, it establishes the smoothness of local minimizers of the functional where Ω is an open set of R^{n}, u : Ω ⊂ R^{n} → R, and
(Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford). Received 22 Feb, 2021. We live in a connected world where people, goods, information, and diseases travel from one region to the next. In the years of COVID, a particularly dramatic example of this propagation phenomenon is, of course, the transmission of the coronavirus from a single seed location (Wuhan,
Ernest Latorre defended his PhD thesis W, with the title Active superelasticity in threedimensional epithelia of controlled shape, on 19 February 2021 under the supervision of Marino Arroyo Balaguer and Xavier Trepat Guixer, within the UPC doctoral program on Applied Mathematics. Currently, he is at Principia. Thesis summary Fundamental processes in development and physiology are
