(Deparment of Mathematics, UT at Austin). On September 22, 2003, Luis A. Caffarelli delivered the inaugural lecture of the FME 2003-04 term. The image corresponds to the heading of the corresponding chapter in the booklet distributed by the FME on that occasion. Now, after twenty years, he has been awarded the 2023 Abel Prize and […]
(CoDAlab & IMTech). Received 21 April, 2022. The world energy system is undoubtedly in transition. The widespread adoption and use of renewable energy are the fastest and cheapest route to greater energy independence after the Ukrainian invasion and are the key to fight climate change. The European Commission’s scenarios show renewables-based electrification will be central
(On leave from UPC). Received October 19th, 2021. The context Europe and the developed world are ageing quickly. About 23% of the Europeans are over 65 today, and estimates are that this percentage will be 40% by 2040. This puts an enormous stress on the pillars of the welfare state, in particular retirement pensions, social
Received October 14th, 2021. Classical error-correction is the process by which data is protected from being corrupted by noise. In its simplest form we wish to protect a sequence of zeros and ones which are either being stored or transmitted. A repetition code gives a simple protection against a bit flip error in which a
(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,
