Modeling three sources of uncertainty in assisted reproductive technologies with probabilistic graphical models.

Embryo selection is a critical step in assisted reproduction: good selection criteria are expected to increase the probability of inducing a pregnancy. Machine learning techniques have been applied for implantation prediction or embryo quality assessment, which embryologists can use to make a decision about embryo selection. However, this is a highly uncertain real-world problem, and current proposals do not model always all the sources of uncertainty.

A connection between living liquid crystals and electrokinetic phenomena in nematic fluids.

We develop a formal analogy between configurational stresses in physically distinct systems, and study the flows that they induce when the configurations of interest include topological defects. Our primary focus is on electrokinetic flows in a nematic fluid under an applied electrostatic field, which we compare with a class of systems in which internal stresses are generated due to configurational changes (e.g.

Spin-controlled superconductivity and tunable triplet correlations in graphene nanostructures.

We study graphene ferromagnet/superconductor/ferromagnet (F/S/F) nanostructures via a microscopic self-consistent Dirac Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism. We show that as a result of proximity effects, experimentally accessible spin switching phenomena can occur as one tunes the Fermi level μF of the F regions or varies the angle θ between exchange field orientations. Superconductivity can then be switched on and off by varying either θ or μF (a spin-controlled superconducting graphene switch).

Out of equilibrium plasticity dynamics and the annealing of supersolidity in solid ⁴He.

We present a numerical study of a continuum plasticity field coupled to a Ginzburg-Landau model for superfluidity. The results suggest that a supersolid fraction may appear as a long-lived transient during the time evolution of the plasticity field at higher temperatures where both dislocation climb and glide are allowed. Supersolidity, however, vanishes with annealing.