The final ~50 ky of the Maastrichtian leading up to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary mass extinction at Bidart (France) show records of poor carbonate preservation, the final ~25 ky being critical. This event has been ...

Nanostructures of gold and silver (nanospheres, nanorods, and core-shell nanostructures) are considered to be the workhorse of next generation nanomedicine. They can be synthesized in different shapes and sizes with ...

This project involved the study of Monge-Kantorovich problem of optimally transporting one distribution of mass to another. A cost is incurred while doing the transportation and the optimality is measured against this cost ...

Recently ultrafast pump-probe experiments have been performed on Dimethyl Methyl Phosphonate (DMMP) where the pump light was used to adiabatically ionize the molecule and the probe light was used to study the dynamics of ...

In this thesis, we examine to what extend machine learning techniques like convolutional neu- ral networks can differentiate real and fake electrons better than the observables constructed by physicists. Our approach is ...

Even with the best noise canceling techniques, the data in the ground-based gravitational wave detectors are often plagued with non-stationary noise transients (glitches). These noise transients severely affect the ...

Polysaccharide derived nano-carriers are emerging in drug/gene delivery area to cancer cells and are drawing a lot of attention. One of the major reason is the biocompatibility of these polysaccharides which is a very ...

Drosophila Caspar (Casp) is an ortholog of mammalian Fas associated factor 1 (FAF1). Analysis of the primary sequence suggests that the protein maintains its function between flies and humans. Casp in flies has been ...

In this thesis we focus on understanding the longitudinal fluctuations in the initial state of relativistic nuclear collisions when Quark-Gluon Plasma is formed. Hydrodynamic evolution of the QGP state is performed using ...