Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

The proposed research is a multifaceted investigation centering on problems in homogeneous dynamics and fundamental questions about lattices. We will focus in particular on problems which hold the promise ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2022-12-31

The purpose of this project is to enhance accessibility to and knowledge of a relatively little-used historical source — petitions — and to use this source to answer questions about people’s ways of supporting ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The research program studies contact and symplectic topology and its relations to other geometric fields, in particular to physics inspired low-dimensional topology and knot theory. The main tool is theories ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2017-12-31

Thousands of ciphers, enciphered historical manuscripts, are buried in libraries and archives. Our project will develop computer-aided tools for automatic and semi-automatic decoding of historical source ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Thousands of encrypted manuscripts are found in archives all over Europe, documents that are not yet available for historical research. Examples of such materials are diplomatic and military correspondence ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2015-12-31

In the recent years, significant progress has been made in natural language processing and machine translation in particular. The launch of Google Translate is one example that demonstrates the growing ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The project aims to provide a fuller documentation of Kunashi, a "definitely endangered" (UNESCO) unwritten and undescribed Tibeto-Burman language spoken in only one village - Malana - in the Kullu district ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The framework of string compactifications is of undisputed importance to connect string theory to the physics of our world, and has promoted progress in fields ranging from quantum gravity and cosmology ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The project aims to investigate colloquialization in the history of Swedish (c. 1830—c. 1930) by exploring fictional prose. The term colloquialization refers to the incorporation of colloquial linguistic ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The purpose of this project is to make a holistic analysis of contemporary bestsellers by combining different methods (distant and close, inductive and deductive, probabilistic and historic-empiric), materials ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The Fukaya category is a powerful invariant of exact symplectic manifolds in the form of an A-infinity category, the objects of which consist of (a suitable class of) its Lagrangian submanifolds, while ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

This project studies the mathematical models arising from a variety of imaging techniques. These problems are formulated mathematically as "inverse problems" where one deduces information about the differential ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Conserved quantities are important in various areas of physics, as in many cases they provide an essential characterization of a physical system. However, to define the mass, center of mass, angular and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and the quantum ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

This project is in the area of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. The main emphasis is on the development of new geometrical ideas and concepts originating from the modern string theory and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2016-12-31

During the past decade there has been an important development of the mathematical tools available for high-energy physics. I have participated in and contributed to this development of Generalized Complex ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

This research project aims to study several related topics in higher dimensional Auslander-Reiten theory. Classical Auslander-Reiten theory is an important tool in representation theory of associative ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the largest language families on earth, second only to Indo-European (IE) in number of speakers. However, when it comes to our basic facts about ST – how many languages there ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-06-18 till 2018-06-20

Tusentals krypterade manuskript, s.k. chiffer finns i bibliotek och arkiv i Sverige och över hela Europa, dokument som ännu inte är tillgängliga för historisk forskning. Exempel på sådana material är diplomatisk ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2013-12-31

More than thirty years ago a result derived in the context of superspace supergravity indicated that even the most promising supergravity candidate had problems when viewed as a model for quantum gravity ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2021-12-31

The main purpose of this project is to further the understanding of exact Lagrangian manifolds in symplectic manifolds, and understand the relations to quantum physics. We propose the following specific ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Pronouns are challenging for machine translation (MT) because their use variesbetween languages and because anaphoric pronouns are subject to long-distanceconstraints outside the standard unit of MT. The ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Mathematical morphology (MM) is a widely-used framework for efficient processing and analysis of images. Linear filters, according to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory, are not affected by the sampling ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2016-12-31

Symplectic and contact geometry has its roots in the mathematical description of mechanics. Its modern development was initiated in the early 1980´s with conjectures by Arnold and then shaped by Gromov ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-12-01 till 2024-11-30

Over the last 35 years, the study of the role of geometric and topological aspects of fundamental physics in gauge theory and strings has been a central theme in both theoretical physics and in geometry ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-07-01 till 2023-06-30

Language technology is increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives. We rely on search engines, spell checkers, machine translation, etc. Access to such language technology is however very unequal across ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 2020-12-31

Natural language processing plays an increasingly important role in our lives. Whenever we make use of search engines, voice interfaces, or online translation services, we rely on the capacity of computers ...