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The Linz Café and the concept of "wholeness": Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

Vasileios Chanis

The purpose of the paper is to discuss "The Linz Café," a building that ceased to exist in 1980. This project was conceived and constructed by Christopher Alexander for the summer exposition "Forum Design" in Linz, Austria. Despite its short-lived existenc ...

2024

On the non-existence of stepped-pressure equilibria far from symmetry

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella

The Stepped Pressure Equilibrium Code (SPEC) (Hudson et al 2012 Phys. Plasmas 19 112502) has been successful in the construction of equilibria in 3D configurations that contain a mixture of flux surfaces, islands and chaotic magnetic field lines. In this m ...

2021

Modes and Existences in Citizen Science: Thoughts from Earthquake Country

In the Bay Area of San Francisco, the earthquake contours are not easy to define: seismology is still a relatively recent science, and controversies around methods to evaluate the earthquake risk are constant. In this context, the invitation to think about ...

2019

Au risque de la dystopie

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon

Face à l’incertitude quant aux futures conditions d’existence de l’humanité, de nouvelles manières d’appréhender l’avenir de nos sociétés semblent nécessaires. En mettant de côté les perspectives ouvertes par les utopies heureuses, cet article fait le pari ...

Association Espaces Temps2018

De la "Divine Comédie" à l’Existentium: quartier agricole à Romanel-Vernand-Cheseaux (VD)

Ivana Milosevic

Mêlant espaces naturels, cultivés, habités et industriels, le paysage de Romanel-Vernand-Cheseaux est très diversifié. Ce site est appelé à connaître une future densification, exigée, dans la région lausannoise, afin de répondre à l’augmentation à venir de ...

2018

Existence of solutions to a non-variational singular elliptic system with unbounded weights

Linda Maria De Cave

In this paper we prove an existence result for the following singular elliptic system {z > 0 in Omega, z is an element of W-0(iota,p)(Omega) : -Delta(p)z = a(x)z(q-iota)u(theta) , u > 0 in Omega, u is an element of W-0(iota,p)(Omega) : -Delta(p)u = b(x)z(q ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2017

Calculus of Variations for Differential Forms

Swarnendu Sil

In this thesis we study calculus of variations for differential forms. In the first part we develop the framework of direct methods of calculus of variations in the context of minimization problems for functionals of one or several differential forms of th ...

EPFL2016

Existence and Uniqueness Theorems for the Two-Dimensional Ericksen-Leslie System

Tudor Ratiu

In this paper we study the two dimensional Ericksen-Leslie equations for the nematodynamics of liquid crystals if the moment of inertia of the molecules does not vanish. We prove short time existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the initial value ...

Springer Verlag2016

A view on global urbanization

Emanuele Strano

It is widely recognized that global urbanization is one the most urgent issue of our time. Any problem related to global issues, such as climate change, social and environmental sustainability and the future of our society, is somehow related to cities and ...

EPFL2016

Application aux équations aux dérivées partielles d'une méthode par point fixe et le problème des deux puits

Sébastien Basterrechea

This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is about a variant of Banach's fixed point theorem and its applications to several partial differential equations (PDE's), abstractly of the form [ \mathcal Lu + \mathcal Q(u) = f.] The main result of thi ...

EPFL2015