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Master's Thesis defended last week
September 15, 2021
IFAELast week the students of the Postgraduate Program in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology (Mastercosmos) defended their Master’s Thesis. A total 13 theses have been tutored by IFAE researchers.
List of Theses:
- Juan Urrutia: “Search for primordial blackholes via gravitational wave lensing with ground based detectors”. Tutor: Ville Vaskonen
- Marc Andrés Carcassona: “Searches of gravitational waves from asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using convolutional neural networks during O2”. Tutor: Mario Martínez.
- Jordi Capó, “Neutron Detection Capabilities”. Tutor: Thorsten Lux
- Arul Prakash, “B decays form factor parameterization using Neural Networks”. Tutor: Pere Masjuan
- Adriana Ghiozzi, “A two-particle solution to lepton magnetic moment anomalies and its implications for rare B decay observables” Tutor: Pere Masjuan
- Helena Recasens, “Application of machine-learning techniques for background suppression in searches for higgsino pair production with the ATLAS detector”. Tutor: Aurelio Juste, Carlos Moreno
- Oriol Izquierdo, “Optimization of a new light scalar boson search analysis using data of the ATLAS experiment”. Tutor:Imma Riu
- Fernando García. “Search for the pair production of vector-like quarks in final states with multiple b-jets”. Tutor: Aurelio Juste
- Aday Cárdenas, “On Cosmological Phase Transitions: Gravitational Waves and Gauge Dependence”. Tutor: Ville Vaskonen
- Maria Lainez, “Analysis of gamma-ray observations performed with the first Large-Sized Telescope of CTA”. Tutor: Abelardo Moralejo
- Akshay Kumar, “Optimising baffle parameters in Einstein Telescope”. Tutor: Mario Martínez
- Daniel Serrano, “Novel instrumentation for light detection in the Virgo Interferometer”. Tutor: Mario Martínez
- Joan Llobera, “Modeling Gravitational Waveforms for Parameter Estimation with Machine Learning”. Tutor: Mario Martínez

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