Prospects of Higgs Physics at the LHC

The search for the Higgs boson is a major physics goal of the future Large Hadron Collider. The discovery potential is described as a function of the Higgs mass. It is shown that a Standard Model Higgs boson can be discovered within the first year of data taking. The status of MSSM Higgs searches is also discussed.Comment: 7 pages, Talk given on behalf of the CMS and ATLAS collaborations at the 14th Topical Conference on Hadron Collider Physics (HCP2002), Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sep--4 Oct 200

Non-Rigid Structure from Motion for Complex Motion

Recovering deformable 3D motion from temporal 2D point tracks in a monocular video is an open problem with many everyday applications throughout science and industry, or the new augmented reality. Recently, several techniques have been proposed to deal the problem called Non-Rigid Structure from Motion (NRSfM), however, they can exhibit poor reconstruction performance on complex motion. In this project, we will analyze these situations for primitive human actions such as walk, run, sit, jump, etc. on different scenarios, reviewing first the current techniques to finally present our novel method. This approach is able to model complex motion into a union of subspaces, rather than the summation occurring in standard low-rank shape methods, allowing better reconstruction accuracy. Experiments in a wide range of sequences and types of motion illustrate the benefits of this new approac

G-Tweet: tool allowing to detect incidents on Twitter

In this Paper we show how we have tackled the problem of bad opinions about a waste company services on Twitter [1]. We classified the tweets in two types, inci-dents: tweets that the company can fix, and opinions [2]. In the first phase our research consisted in development of computer algorithms capa-ble of detecting incidents published by citizens on Twitter, and in the second phase we managed the collected information to improve the service and control of citizen perception.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Charge-transfer insulation in twisted bilayer graphene

We studied the real space structure of states in twisted bilayer graphene at the `magic angle' $\theta = 1.08^\circ$. The flat bands close to charge neutrality are composed of a mix of `ring' and `center' orbitals around the AA stacking region. An effective model with localized orbitals is constructed, which necessarily includes more than just the four flat bands. Long-range Coulomb interaction causes a charge-transfer at half-filling of the flat bands from the `center' to the `ring' orbitals. Consequently, the Mott phase is a featureless spin-singlet paramagnet. We estimate the effective Heisenberg coupling that favors the singlet coupling to be $J = 3.3$ K, consistent with experimental values. The superconducting state depends on the nature of the dopants: hole-doping yields $p+ip$-wave whereas electron-doping yields $d+id$-wave pairing symmetry.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures. This second version contains more detailed computations on the Coulomb energy from the unequal charge distributio

POSSIBILITIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF INTEGRATING HOUSEHOLD ANALYSIS IN CGE MODELS: THE CASE OF MEXICO

This paper offers a possibility of bringing household analysis into Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling. In this research, the CGE model developed by the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) is extended. The extended GTAP model splits private consumption into ten different household categories according to observed expenditure patterns for Mexico. The extended model is used to simulate possible effects on Mexican household categories which are carried out under three different trade liberalization scenarios.Trade liberalization, Mexico, poverty alleviation, household analysis, GTAP, Consumer/Household Economics,