News
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Physics department researcher leads finding on accurate description of key aerospatial cooling prototype
The computational research, lead by Arnau Miró, professor of the physics department in the TUAREG research group in Aerospatial Engineering, has been published in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences. As Arnau Miró says, he is focused on understanding “how to cool future stuff using Synthetic Jets” with a special focus on synthetic jet actuators.
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Physical Review E editor picks work on statistical physics done in the department as part of the cover of its last volume
The work of Laureano Ramírez-Piscina in Physical Review E on the Langevin formalism of diffusion in channels last July has been selected by the editor as one of the main contributions to statistical physics in the journal.
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The Computational Biology and Complex Systems group will hold its research meeting next monday 4th in EPSEB
Markus Bar, division head of the National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB), will open the research meeting as keynote speaker of the BIOCOM-SC group next monday 4th of February. The venue of the conference day will be the Sala de Graus of the Escola Politècnica Superior d'Edificació de Barcelona (EPSEB)
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UPC news picks up key astrophysical discovery made in the department
The undergraduate project done by Martí Perpinyà in Physical Engineering, under the direction of Alberto Rebassa and Jordi José, has discovered the first system of three white dwarfs. The UPC news picks up the report hoping it will reach a general audience
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The research day of the physics department is ready to go
The morning of the next January 29th, the Institut de Estudis Catalans (carrer del Carme 47) will hold the XIV research day of the physics department. The invited talk of the conference will be presented by M. Ángeles Serrano, ICREA of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS)
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A novel simulation procedure allows new insights on ectopic beats in the heart
Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Physics department Sergio Alonso publishes, in collaboration with Brazilian Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, a novel simulation method to understand how the hearts can beat anomalously with a signal originating from the same heart (ectopic beat) instead of our natural external pacemaker.
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Discovery of the first resolved triple white dwarf
M Perpinyà-Vallès A Rebassa-Mansergas B T Gänsicke S Toonen J J Hermes N P Gentile Fusillo P-E Tremblay
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Spreading page: 'Physics of beaches'
The Coastal Morphology Group of the Department has created a page for the dissemination of its research.
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An international team of physicists carry out quantum simulation of the physical effects of disorder in topological insulators
A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States, the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and the UPC uses experiments with ultra-cold atoms, trapped and driven by lasers, to create a new topological insulator induced by the disorder.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics"