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Edgar Alvarez Galera defended his thesis co-directed by Jordi Martí Rabassa and Lluís Batet Miracle on July 22 at the North Campus. The thesis, with the title “Helium nucleation in liquid alkali metals and lead-lithium alloys”, the work offers an atomistic and computational analysis of the nucleation of helium generated in tritium production reactions by neutron bombardment of lithium isotopes. The research allows evaluating several interaction models by studying critical parameters such as solubility (Henry’s constants) and interfacial tension between the spherical phases of segregated helium and different liquid metals

Jordi Mazón Bueso, president of the Catalan Association of Meteorology and associate professor in the Physics department at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, explains the apparent lack of coherence between applications

An international team of researchers from UPC in Barcelona and the University of Queensland in Brisbane has developed a new theory to explain how microscopic thermal excitations determine the temperature dependence of collective oscillations in bosonic particles confined to one spatial dimension

Juan Gancio defended his thesis co-directed by Cristina Masoller and Giulio Tirabassi on July 30 at the Terrassa Campus. Titled "Characterizing and detecting changes in complex multidimensional data with permutation entropy". The thesis analyzes the ability of permutation entropy-based measures to detect changes and characterize complex data in three interdisciplinary areas: data generated by highly multimode lasers, climatological data and electroencephalogram (EEG) signals.