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Introduction: In the last decades, advances in bone tissue engineering mainly based on osteoinduction and on stem cell research. Only recently, new efforts focused on the micro- and nanoarchitecture of bone substitutes to improve and accelerate bone regeneration. By the use of additive manufacturing, diverse microarchitectures were tested to identify the ideal pore size [1], the ideal filament distance and diameter [2], or light-weight microarchitecture [3], for osteoconduction to minimize the chance for the development of non-unions. Overall, the optimal microarchitecture doubled the efficiency of scaffold-based bone regeneration without the need for growth factors or cells. Another focus is on bone augmentation, a procedure mainly used in the dental field.

Methods: For the production of scaffolds, we applied the CeraFab 7500 from Lithoz, a lithographybased additive manufacturing machine. Hydroxyapatite-based and tri-calcium-phosphate-based scaffolds were produced with Lithoz TCP 3...

I will first consider the geometry of the complex hyperbolic plane and immersed surfaces therein, in particular the cases of Lagrangian and complex surfaces. The complex surfaces are all minimal, but there are many others as well. As it is a symmetric space, the more general case of harmonic maps from a Riemann surface into the complex hyperbolic plane naturally generates holomorphic data of a Higgs bundle. We impose a compactness condition to relate our study of minimal surfaces to Higgs bundles. Let S be a closed Riemann surface of genus at least 2. Consider then harmonic immersions of the universal cover of S into the complex hyperbolic plane which are equivariant with respect to some representation of the fundamental group of S into the group P U(2, 1) of holomorphic isometries of the complex hyperbolic plane. In this case, the nonlinear Hodge correspondence applies and thus there is a (poly-)stable Higgs bundle over S. In the standard case of the group GL(n, C), this consists of a...

Outline of Topics:

Minimal Surfaces in Diblock Copolymers: the P,G, and D triply periodic minimal surfaces.
Smectic Liquid Crystals: the simplest crystals and they are built from surfaces.
Using minimal surfaces to knit: geometric scaffolds in materials science.

I will describe recent work which defines a class of multi-party measures of entanglement which are characterized by tensorial contractions of copies of a density matrix with respect to an arbitrary finite group symmetry.

For AdS3/CFT2 they can be determined by both boundary replica trick calculations of twist operators and by bulk quotients of Euclidean AdS3 by Kleinian groups. The technology developed allows for the determination of all such measures which can preserve bulk replica symmetry.

I will provide several explicit examples including a complete classification of measures with genus zero and one replica surfaces.

First Talk (90 minutes) I would like to give a brief introduction of spacelike hypersurfaces and maximal hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. Then I would like to introduce maximal surfaces with singularities in Minkowsiki 3-space and give examples.

I will review recent work on using geometric phases for describing the entanglement properties of spacetimes, in particular black holes. In particular, similarities and differences between simple quantum mechanical systems and quantum gravity will be presented and discussed.

We match instanton contributions between (2,4k) minimal superstring theory with type 0B GSO projection and its dual unitary matrix integral. The main technical insight is to use string field theory to analyze and cure the divergences in the cylinder diagram with both boundaries on a ZZ brane. This procedure gives a finite normalization constant for the non-perturbative effects in minimal superstring theory. Based on arXiv:2406.16867

It was conjectured that a holographic CFT deformed by the TTbar operator is dual to a bulk with a finite radial cutoff. I will describe a sequence of deformations that appear to push the cutoff surface into the black hole interior. The finite boundary is always at a constant radial surface, which means it changes signature when in the interior. I will provide a bulk path integral whose saddles describe these bulk spacetimes with finite spacelike cutoff surfaces. These results are restricted to 3d and JT gravity. This is based on work with Shadi Ali Ahmad and Simon Lin.

In quantum many-body systems, ‘measurement-induced phase transitions’ (MIPT), have led to a new paradigm for dynamical phase transitions in recent years. I will first discuss a model of continuously monitored or weakly measured arrays of Josephson junctions (JJAs) with feedback. Using a combination of a variational self-consistent harmonic approximation and analysis in the semiclassical limit, strong dissipation limit, and weak coupling perturbative renormalization group, I will show that the model undergoes reentrant superconductor-insulator MIPTs in its long-time non-equilibrium steady state as a function of measurement strength and feedback strength. I will contrast the phase diagram of monitored JJA with the well-studied case of dissipative JJA. In the second part of the talk, starting from a similar model of a continuously monitored chain of coupled anharmonic oscillators with feedback, I will show that the quantum dynamics maps to a stochastic Langevin dynamics with noise strengt...

We consider a class of exactly solvable Hamiltonian deformations of Conformal Fields Theories (CFTs) in arbitrary dimensions. The deformed Hamiltonians involve generators which form a SU(1,1) subalgebra. The Floquet and quench dynamics can be computed exactly. The CFTs exhibit distinct heating and non-heating phases at late times characterized by exponential and oscillatory correlators as functions of time. When the dynamics starts from a homogenous state, the energy density is shown to localize spatially in the heating phase. The set-ups considered will involve step pulses of different Hamiltonians, but can be generalized to smooth drives. In low dimensions we verify our results with lattice numerics.