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Series of conferences at the CosmoCaixa about the Sun
Next week begins a cycle of four conferences on the Science of the Sun organized by the CosmoCaixa museum, with the collaboration of the EETAC (UPC). All sessions will be coordinated by Francesca Ribas Prats, professor in the Physics department
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Martí Coma Company defends its thesis on optimization with hybrid methods
Martí Coma Company defended its thesis co-directed by Jordi Pons-Prats and Gabriel Bugeda Castelltort on July 26 at the Castelldefels Campus. Entitled "Optimization on industrial problems focusing on multi-player strategies", the thesis presents new hybrid optimization algorithms that combine evolutionary methods and gradient methods
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David Arcos' thesis takes a step further in the characterization of two-dimensional materials
On Tuesday 19 July, doctoral student David Arcos Gutiérrez defended his thesis entitled Optoelectronic characterization of two-dimensional materials at high frequencies, which was co-directed by Núria Ferrer Anglada and Lluís Ametller Congost. In the thesis, non-destructive characterization methods are analyzed, applied and compared at frequencies above 1 GHz, which are used to characterize samples of 2D materials on different substrates. The optoelectronic properties of two heterostructures are also measured. (graphene / MoS2 and graphene / WS2 on molten quartz) and are compared with those of individual materials
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Rinse de Swart defends his thesis on beach dynamics
Rinse de Swart defended his thesis, co-directed by Francesca Ribas Prats and Daniel Calvete Manrique, on July 19, 2022 at the North Campus. Titled "Development and interactions of surfzone morphological patterns", the thesis presents an analysis of the development of sand bars and the coastline, as well as their interactions, on the beach of Castelldefels using 8 years of observational data.
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Physics Department Council Summer 2022
The council of the Department of Physics was held on Monday 18 July under the direction of Jordi Boronat, director of the Department
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María Caamaño Albuerne defends her thesis on augmentation systems for civil aviation
María Caamaño defended her thesis co-directed by José Miguel Juan Zornoza and Jaume Sanz Subirana on July 12 at the North Campus of Barcelona. Titled "Network-Based Ionospheric Gradient Monitoring to Support Ground Based Augmentation Systems", the thesis presents a new concept for monitoring ionospheric gradients in systems installed at airports to ensure the safety of civil aviation operations.
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Trinitat Pradell has been recognized with the Narcís Monturiol Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya and named a member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans
The researcher from the Department of Physics has been awarded the Narcís Monturiol Medal for her outstanding contribution to the development of science and technology in Catalonia.
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Riccardo Silini defends his thesis on causal inference and prediction methods for the analysis of climate data
Riccardo Silini defended his thesis co-directed by Cristina Masoller and Marcelo Barreiro on July 5 at the Terrassa Campus. Titled "Causal inference and forecasting methods for climate data analysis", the thesis presents data analysis techniques to identify those processes that contain causal information for the prediction of a process of interest, and machine learning algorithms to improve the prediction of the climatic phenomenon called Madden-Julian oscillation.
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Juan Carlos Flores defends his thesis on the synthesis of new functionalized nano-particles.
On June 20, Juan Carlos Flores defended his thesis directed by professors Daniel Crespo and José Calderón, presenting new routes for obtaining nano-particles
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Analysis of the last two centuries of rainfall records in Andalusia for the detection of possible changes caused by global warming
As a result of a collaboration with researchers from the University of Córdoba, M. Carmen Casas and Raúl Rodríguez have evaluated the quality of the rainfall data of Andalusia available since 1870, long before the first modern meteorological stations were put into operation, and have analyzed the different rainfall patterns in the region in pursuit of the detection of possible changes caused by global warming