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acknowledgement: "This work was supported by EMBO (ALTF 302-2019 to Niko Amin-Wetzel),
  the FWF\r\n(ESPRIT PR1054E140 to Niko Amin-Wetzel), the European Research Council\r\n(Advanced
  Grant 269058 to Mario de Bono) and Wellcome (209504/A/17/Z\r\nInvestigator Award
  to Mario de Bono). "
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  ama: Schön H. The ER complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 regulates the fate of mRNAs encoding
    GPCRs. 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167</a>
  apa: Schön, H. (2025). <i>The ER complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 regulates the fate of mRNAs
    encoding GPCRs</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167</a>
  chicago: Schön, Hanna. “The ER Complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 Regulates the Fate of MRNAs
    Encoding GPCRs.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167</a>.
  ieee: H. Schön, “The ER complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 regulates the fate of mRNAs encoding
    GPCRs,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Schön H. 2025. The ER complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 regulates the fate of mRNAs encoding
    GPCRs. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Schön, Hanna. <i>The ER Complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 Regulates the Fate of MRNAs Encoding
    GPCRs</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20167</a>.
  short: H. Schön, The ER Complex SUTU-7/MACO-1 Regulates the Fate of MRNAs Encoding
    GPCRs, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
corr_author: '1'
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  text: Very long-chain fatty acids (VLCFAs), being constituents of different types
    of lipids, are critical factors in plant development, presumably due to their
    impact on the endomembrane system. The VLCFAs are synthesized in the endoplasmic
    reticulum by a heterotetrameric enzymatic complex including β-ketoacyl CoA reductase
    1 (KCR1), whose mutant is lethal. Here, we describe the ectopic shoot meristems
    (esm) mutant, a viable kcr1 allele presumably affecting surface properties of
    the KCR1 protein. This kcr1-2 mutant shows reduced fatty acyl elongation that
    impacts VLCFAs. The kcr1-2 plants show severe defects during different stages
    of development, which all correlate with defects in polar localization and subcellular
    trafficking of PIN auxin transporters and resulting asymmetric auxin distribution.
    Detailed analysis of KCR1 expression and patterning defects in kcr1-2 suggests
    that KCR1 plays a role in delineating boundaries around meristematic and specialized
    differentiating tissues, including root and shoot meristems, initiating lateral
    roots, lateral root primordia, and trichomes. In these contexts, KCR1-produced
    VLCFAs may act in a non-cell-autonomous manner. Viable kcr1-2 represents a useful
    tool to study VLCFA roles in plant development and highlights VLCFAs as critical
    developmental factors at the interface of cell polarity and tissue development.
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acknowledgement: "We gratefully acknowledge the Imaging and Optics, Electron Microscopy
  (especially Vanessa Zheden for technical assistance) and Life Science (in particular
  Dorota Jaworska) facilities at ISTA for their continuous support. Authors would
  like to thank Michelle Gallei for advice during the generation of the transgenic
  lines; Zuzana Gelová for advice with DR5rev::GFP analyses; Ivan Kulich for help
  and advice on trichome imaging; Aline Monzer for generous help with hypocotyl and
  root analyses; Shutang Tan for help with the NGS data analysis; and Milan Župunski
  for advice on abiotic stress experiments. We would like to thank Dolf Weijers for
  the SOSEKI (SOK) marker line seeds. This work has benefited from the support of
  IJPB's Plant Observatory platforms P0-Chem.\r\n\r\nThis work was supported by Austrian
  Science Fund (FWF) (I 6123-B) and Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province
  (20223BCJ25037) to Huibin Han. The IJPB benefits from the support of Saclay Plant
  Sciences-SPS (ANR-17-EUR-0007)."
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    development. <i>Plant Journal</i>. 2025;123(3). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396">10.1111/tpj.70396</a>
  apa: Babic, D., Abualia, R., Fiedler, L., Qi, L., Tellier, F., Smoljan, A., … Friml,
    J. (2025). Biosynthesis of very long-chain fatty acids is required for Arabidopsis
    auxin-mediated embryonic and post-embryonic development. <i>Plant Journal</i>.
    Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396">https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396</a>
  chicago: Babic, David, Rashed Abualia, Lukas Fiedler, Linlin Qi, Frédérique Tellier,
    Adrijana Smoljan, Hana Rakusova, et al. “Biosynthesis of Very Long-Chain Fatty
    Acids Is Required for Arabidopsis Auxin-Mediated Embryonic and Post-Embryonic
    Development.” <i>Plant Journal</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396">https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396</a>.
  ieee: D. Babic <i>et al.</i>, “Biosynthesis of very long-chain fatty acids is required
    for Arabidopsis auxin-mediated embryonic and post-embryonic development,” <i>Plant
    Journal</i>, vol. 123, no. 3. Wiley, 2025.
  ista: Babic D, Abualia R, Fiedler L, Qi L, Tellier F, Smoljan A, Rakusova H, Valošek
    P, Han H, Benková E, Faure JD, Friml J. 2025. Biosynthesis of very long-chain
    fatty acids is required for Arabidopsis auxin-mediated embryonic and post-embryonic
    development. Plant Journal. 123(3), e70396.
  mla: Babic, David, et al. “Biosynthesis of Very Long-Chain Fatty Acids Is Required
    for Arabidopsis Auxin-Mediated Embryonic and Post-Embryonic Development.” <i>Plant
    Journal</i>, vol. 123, no. 3, e70396, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.70396">10.1111/tpj.70396</a>.
  short: D. Babic, R. Abualia, L. Fiedler, L. Qi, F. Tellier, A. Smoljan, H. Rakusova,
    P. Valošek, H. Han, E. Benková, J.D. Faure, J. Friml, Plant Journal 123 (2025).
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    Thaliana.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20362">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20362</a>.
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    Inorganic Solids.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20415">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20415</a>.
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  mla: Lee, Seungho. <i>Nanoparticle-Based Precursors toward Advanced Crystalline
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  short: S. Lee, Nanoparticle-Based Precursors toward Advanced Crystalline Inorganic
    Solids, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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acknowledgement: "Plant Facility,\r\nProtein Service Facility"
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  ama: Giannini C. Nuclear and cell surface auxin signaling in A. thaliana developmental
    transitions. 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364</a>
  apa: Giannini, C. (2025). <i>Nuclear and cell surface auxin signaling in A. thaliana
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  chicago: Giannini, Caterina. “Nuclear and Cell Surface Auxin Signaling in A. Thaliana
    Developmental Transitions.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364</a>.
  ieee: C. Giannini, “Nuclear and cell surface auxin signaling in A. thaliana developmental
    transitions,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Giannini C. 2025. Nuclear and cell surface auxin signaling in A. thaliana
    developmental transitions. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Giannini, Caterina. <i>Nuclear and Cell Surface Auxin Signaling in A. Thaliana
    Developmental Transitions</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20364</a>.
  short: C. Giannini, Nuclear and Cell Surface Auxin Signaling in A. Thaliana Developmental
    Transitions, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
corr_author: '1'
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  text: "Epithelial spreading plays a pivotal role in the development of organisms
    especially those\r\nsuch as zebrafish which require the epithelial enveloping
    layer (EVL) to spread to cover the\r\nsubstantial yolk surface during gastrulation.
    Epiboly requires the transition of the epithelium\r\nwith cuboidal cells to form
    a thin, flat squamous epithelial sheet. During this transition, the\r\ncells show
    tissue-scale mechanosensation with mechanisms such as direct mechanical control\r\nover
    the axis of cell division.\r\nCytoskeletal intermediate filaments play a crucial
    role in vertebrate cells, not only facilitating\r\nmechanical stability but also
    helping facilitate the mechanosensitive response of the cell.\r\nMechanosenstivity
    displayed by intermediate filaments is due not just to their interesting\r\nphysical
    properties but also to their interactions with other cytoskeletal elements such
    as actin\r\nand microtubules. Keratin is the predominant intermediate filament
    expressed in the EVL.\r\nIt expresses concomitantly with the gastrulation movements
    of the developing embryo. Our\r\nwork focuses on understanding the role and dynamics
    of the keratin cytoskeletal network in\r\nmodulating the physical aspects of EVL
    spreading. We demonstrated with the combination of\r\nphysical characterisation
    and manipulations of the EVL, utilising a variety of biophysical tools\r\nand
    microscopy, the mechanistic role of keratin in tissue spreading.\r\nGenerating
    novel genetic morphants and mutants, we probe the effect that the loss of the\r\nkeratin
    network has on the physiology of the epithelium and the developing embryo. We\r\nshow
    that the changing organisation of the keratin network is important for changing
    EVL\r\nphysical properties as the stress imposed on the EVL increases during epiboly.
    By modelling\r\nthe epithelium, we study how the mechanical heterogeneity in an
    epithelium can feed back into\r\na mechanical loop to the maturation of the keratin
    network and hence affect the mechanics\r\nof the epithelium. However, unlike what
    would be predicted by the effect of intermediate\r\nfilaments in acting as a security
    belt and increasing the resistance of the epithelium, we observe\r\nthat loss
    of keratin leads to a delay in the EVL movement. Using both local aspirations
    of the\r\nYSL and EVL ablations, we demonstrate the mechanistic facilitation of
    actin mechanosensation\r\nin a keratin-dependent manner.\r\nFurthermore, using
    chemical inhibitors of microtubule polymerisation, we provide insight into\r\nthe
    mechanisms underlying the organisation and distribution of keratin. Interestingly,
    the\r\nphenotype observed upon this loss of microtubules shows that keratins interact
    with the nucleus\r\nthrough microtubular interactions. Together with these diverse
    observations, we describe\r\nthe mechanosensory feedback between resilience and
    that is critical for uniform and robust\r\nspreading of the epithelium."
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: Bio
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acknowledgement: "I would also like to thank the LSF and Cryo facility at ISTA, which
  have been helpful in my\r\nexperiments. I would also like to acknowledge FWF, grant
  DOI 10.55776/PAT5044023 and JKU Nanocell grant DOI \r\n10.55776/W1250 for providing
  funding for my PhD research. EMBO and FWF for providing funding for travel grants
  to attend conferences."
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  ama: Naik S. Keratins act as global coordinators of tissue spreading through mechanosensitive
    feedback. 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441</a>
  apa: Naik, S. (2025). <i>Keratins act as global coordinators of tissue spreading
    through mechanosensitive feedback</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441</a>
  chicago: Naik, Suyash. “Keratins Act as Global Coordinators of Tissue Spreading
    through Mechanosensitive Feedback.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria,
    2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441</a>.
  ieee: S. Naik, “Keratins act as global coordinators of tissue spreading through
    mechanosensitive feedback,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Naik S. 2025. Keratins act as global coordinators of tissue spreading through
    mechanosensitive feedback. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Naik, Suyash. <i>Keratins Act as Global Coordinators of Tissue Spreading through
    Mechanosensitive Feedback</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20441</a>.
  short: S. Naik, Keratins Act as Global Coordinators of Tissue Spreading through
    Mechanosensitive Feedback, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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acknowledgement: "I would also like to acknowledge the funding that I received from
  the European Union’s\r\nHorizon 2020 research and Innovation programme under the
  Marie Sklodowska-Curie\r\nGrant Agreement No. 665385. This work would not have been
  possible without the contribution and support of people\r\nbehind the scientific
  service units at ISTA: the Life Science Facility (LSF), Imaging and\r\nOptics Facility
  (IOF), the Bioinformatics Unit, Protein Services Unit and\r\nElectrophysiology Unit.
  I would also like to recognize the work of people at the Vienna\r\nBiocenter (VBC)
  Mass Spectrometry Facility, particularly Markus Hartl and WeiQiang\r\nChen. "
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    2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485</a>
  apa: Misova, M. (2025). <i>Dissecting gap junction biology using the C. elegans
    nervous system</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485</a>
  chicago: Misova, Michaela. “Dissecting Gap Junction Biology Using the C. Elegans
    Nervous System.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485</a>.
  ieee: M. Misova, “Dissecting gap junction biology using the C. elegans nervous system,”
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Misova M. 2025. Dissecting gap junction biology using the C. elegans nervous
    system. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Misova, Michaela. <i>Dissecting Gap Junction Biology Using the C. Elegans Nervous
    System</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20485</a>.
  short: M. Misova, Dissecting Gap Junction Biology Using the C. Elegans Nervous System,
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: "The internal dynamical properties of red giant stars have been explored extensively
    in recent\r\nyears as a result of the increase in high precision data availability
    from the space missions\r\nKepler and TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite),
    and in this exploration, it has been\r\ndiscovered that some of these stars are
    not behaving as expected. Red giants are stars that have\r\nevolved off of the
    main sequence after having completed fusing hydrogen into helium in their\r\ncore.
    Observational data shows that the cores are rotating significantly slower than
    models can\r\nrecreate consistently across evolutionary stages. This discrepancy
    has prompted investigation\r\ninto the efficiency of angular momentum transport
    mechanisms and mixing processes including\r\nmeridional circulation, shear instability,
    internal gravity waves, Tayler-Spruit dynamo, fossil\r\nmagnetic fields etc.,
    to explain this behavior.\r\nAnalyzing seismic oscillations in stars, via asteroseismology,
    is a powerful tool as it is the only\r\nway in which the deep stellar interior
    can be probed and subsequently characterized; this is\r\npossible as global oscillations
    modulating the stellar surface are effected by internal processes.\r\nFor red
    giants, p-modes (pressure modes; resonating through the entire star) and g-modes\r\n(gravity-modes;
    resonating in the radiative interior) couple to create mixed modes. These\r\nmixed
    modes give access to the otherwise hidden stellar interior as g-modes couple to
    p-modes,\r\ndelivering information from the interior to the surface.\r\nInternal
    magnetic signatures have been observationally confirmed in red giant stars via\r\nasteroseismology
    and characterized in two ways. One being that dipole mixed modes with\r\nℓ = 1
    will display a global asymmetric frequency shift of its azimuthal components;
    where\r\nthe m = 0 and m = ±1 components of the ℓ = 1 dipole mode will be shifted
    by two\r\ndifferent power laws, respectively. And the other being a reduced visibility
    of dipole mixed\r\nmode amplitudes in the power spectra, where stars presenting
    with this feature are denoted as\r\nsuppressed.\r\nSeveral studies of the suppressed
    dipole mixed mode amplitudes have been carried out, but thus\r\nfar, no dedicated
    studies of the asymmetric frequency shifts of suppressed red giants have been\r\nconducted;
    one reason being that the asymmetric frequency shifts cannot be characterized\r\nwhen
    the dipole mixed mode amplitudes are severely reduced in many of the suppressed
    stars.\r\nSincefullysuppressedstarsdonothavedetectablemixed-modestoevaluate, partiallysuppressed\r\nstars,
    that is, red giant stars presenting with suppressed dipole mixed modes in select
    parts of\r\ntheir power spectra rather than across the entire spectra, will be
    the subject of this study as\r\nthe respective mode amplitudes are still visible
    at high frequencies.\r\nAs such, this study will search for asymmetric frequency
    shifts on the dipole mixed\r\nmodes of partially suppressed red giant stars; the
    aim here is to investigate if both\r\nmode suppression and magnetic shifting of
    dipole mixed modes occur simultaneously.\r\nThisstudywillbeconductedbycreatingapipelinetoestimatepriorsofasteroseismicparameters,\r\nuse
    the priors to model the power spectra with the stellar modeling code sloscillations_ISTA,\r\nand
    perform a Bayesian fit of the parameters with the simulated data on the star KIC
    6975038,\r\na target with partially suppressed dipolar mode amplitudes identified
    in the literature, to fit its\r\nmagnetic parameters. I present a novel method
    to model the stellar power spectra of\r\npartially suppressed red giants by application
    of a sigmoid profile to the ℓ= 1 dipolar\r\nmode component of the spectra. With
    the results of this study I aim at constraining\r\nthe cause of this partial dipole
    mode amplitude suppression, allowing for more detailed\r\nstudies regarding their
    astrophysical nature. Furthermore, the long term hope for the method\r\nused in
    this study will be to expand the sample of partially suppressed red giants and
    fit their\r\nasteroseismic parameters accordingly."
acknowledgement: "I would like to give thanks to myself for my hard work on this document.
  This paper includes data collected by the Kepler mission and obtained from the MAST
  data\r\narchive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Funding for the
  Kepler mission is\r\nprovided by the NASA Science Mission Directorate. STScI is
  operated by the Association of\r\nUniversities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.,
  under NASA contract NAS 5–26555.\r\n"
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- ISTA Master's Thesis
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author:
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  full_name: Smith, Kanah
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  last_name: Smith
citation:
  ama: Smith K. Exploring internal magnetism in partially suppressed red giant stars.
    2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853">10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853</a>
  apa: Smith, K. (2025). <i>Exploring internal magnetism in partially suppressed red
    giant stars</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853</a>
  chicago: Smith, Kanah. “Exploring Internal Magnetism in Partially Suppressed Red
    Giant Stars.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853</a>.
  ieee: K. Smith, “Exploring internal magnetism in partially suppressed red giant
    stars,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Smith K. 2025. Exploring internal magnetism in partially suppressed red giant
    stars. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Smith, Kanah. <i>Exploring Internal Magnetism in Partially Suppressed Red Giant
    Stars</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853">10.15479/AT-ISTA-19853</a>.
  short: K. Smith, Exploring Internal Magnetism in Partially Suppressed Red Giant
    Stars, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: "The space of codimension-2 shapes, such as curves in 3D and surfaces in 4D,
    is an infinite-dimensional manifold. This thesis explores geometric structures
    and dynamics on this space, with emphasis on their implications for physics, particularly
    hydrodynamics.\r\n\r\nOur investigation ranges from theoretical studies of infinite-dimensional
    symplectic and prequantum geometry to numerical computation of the time evolution
    of shapes. The thesis presents four main contributions.\r\n\r\nIn the first part,
    we introduce implicit representations of codimension-2 shapes using a class of
    complex-valued functions, and prove that the space of these implicit representations
    forms a prequantum bundle over the codimension-2 shape space. This reveals a new
    geometric interpretation of the canonical symplectic structure on the codimension-2
    shape space.\r\n\r\nIn the second part, we use implicit representations to develop
    a simulation method for the dynamics of space curves. To handle chaotic systems
    such as vortex filaments in hydrodynamics, we exploit the infinite degrees of
    freedom, hidden in both the configuration and dynamics of implicit representations.\r\n\r\nIn
    the third part, we introduce new symplectic structures on the space of space curves,
    which generalize the only previously known symplectic structure on this space,
    allowing for new Hamiltonian dynamics of space curves.\r\n\r\nIn the fourth part,
    we apply a symplectic viewpoint to a differential geometric problem with practical
    applications. We derive a new area formula for spherical polygons via prequantization. "
acknowledged_ssus:
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acknowledgement: "Projects contained in this thesis were financially supported in
  part by the\r\nEuropean Research Council with grants 1. ERC Consolidator Grant 101045083
  CoDiNA,\r\nand 2. the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
  under grant\r\nagreement No. 638176."
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  apa: Ishida, S. (2025). <i>Symplectic-prequantum structures and dynamics on the
    codimension-2 shape space</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551</a>
  chicago: Ishida, Sadashige. “Symplectic-Prequantum Structures and Dynamics on the
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    <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551</a>.
  ieee: S. Ishida, “Symplectic-prequantum structures and dynamics on the codimension-2
    shape space,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
  ista: Ishida S. 2025. Symplectic-prequantum structures and dynamics on the codimension-2
    shape space. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Ishida, Sadashige. <i>Symplectic-Prequantum Structures and Dynamics on the
    Codimension-2 Shape Space</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20551</a>.
  short: S. Ishida, Symplectic-Prequantum Structures and Dynamics on the Codimension-2
    Shape Space, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: This paper explores the geometry of the space of codimension-2 submanifolds.
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    This reveals a prequantum bundle structure over the space of submanifolds, equipped
    with the well-known Marsden-Weinstein symplectic structure. This bundle allows
    a new physical interpretation of the Marsden-Weinstein structure as the curvature
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    and their prequantum structure,” <i>arXiv</i>. .
  ista: Chern A, Ishida S. Implicit representations of codimension-2 submanifolds
    and their prequantum structure. arXiv, <a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11727">10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11727</a>.
  mla: Chern, Albert, and Sadashige Ishida. “Implicit Representations of Codimension-2
    Submanifolds and Their Prequantum Structure.” <i>ArXiv</i>, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11727">10.48550/ARXIV.2507.11727</a>.
  short: A. Chern, S. Ishida, ArXiv (n.d.).
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acknowledgement: "I would also like to acknowledge the Austrian Academy of Sciences
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  Grants Office at ISTA for their\r\nassistance with the application, and the Scientific
  Computing Unit for their support regarding\r\nhigh-performance computation.\r\n"
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  ama: Ruzickova N. Effect propagation in biological networks. 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357</a>
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    of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357</a>.
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    and Technology Austria, 2025.
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    Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Ruzickova, Natalia. <i>Effect Propagation in Biological Networks</i>. Institute
    of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20357</a>.
  short: N. Ruzickova, Effect Propagation in Biological Networks, Institute of Science
    and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: "Quantitative properties offer a framework for specifying and verifying system
    behaviors beyond the traditional boolean perspective. For example, while a boolean
    property may specify whether a server eventually grants every request it receives,
    a quantitative one may map each server execution to its average response time.
    This quantitative view is relatively well-studied in the context of static verification.
    However, although such properties often appear in practice as performance or robustness
    measures in a dynamic verification context, a general theoretical framework for
    their analysis and classification from a monitoring perspective is still missing.\r\n\r\nIn
    this thesis, we aim to develop such a framework that takes resource-precision
    tradeoffs of monitors as a central consideration. We present the first theory
    of monitorability for quantitative properties where monitors can be naturally
    approximate and compared regarding their precision and resource use. In particular,
    we show that additional monitor resources such as registers or states lead to
    strictly better approximations for some properties. To enable such analyses in
    a machine-model independent way, we describe an abstract notion of monitors that
    can be instantiated with concrete models of monitors. Within this framework, we
    study how abstract monitors behave and identify classes of properties amenable
    to approximate monitoring with resource-precision considerations. We then extend
    the boolean safety-liveness dichotomy and safety-progress hierarchy to the quantitative
    setting with a monitoring perspective. In particular, we prove that every property
    is the pointwise minimum of a safety property and a liveness property, and properties
    that are both safe and co-safe can be approximately monitored arbitrarily precisely
    using only finitely many states. We also study the classes of quantitative properties
    definable by finite-state quantitative automata and provide algorithms for deciding
    their safety or liveness as well as their safety-liveness decompositions. Finally,
    we present the first general-purpose tool for automating the analysis, verification,
    and monitoring of quantitative automata.\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    In reference to IEEE copyrighted material which is used with permission in this
    thesis, the IEEE does not\r\nendorse any of ISTA's products or services. Internal
    or personal use of this\r\nmaterial is permitted. If interested in reprinting/republishing
    IEEE copyrighted material for advertising or promotional\r\npurposes or for creating
    new collective works for resale or redistribution, please go to\r\nhttp://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/rights_link.html
    to learn how to obtain a License from\r\nRightsLink.\r\n"
acknowledgement: "This work was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)\r\nunder
  grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award) and the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093.\r\n"
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  apa: Sarac, N. E. (2025). <i>A monitoring-oriented theory and classification of
    quantitative specifications</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147</a>
  chicago: Sarac, Naci E. “A Monitoring-Oriented Theory and Classification of Quantitative
    Specifications.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147</a>.
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  ista: Sarac NE. 2025. A monitoring-oriented theory and classification of quantitative
    specifications. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Sarac, Naci E. <i>A Monitoring-Oriented Theory and Classification of Quantitative
    Specifications</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20147</a>.
  short: N.E. Sarac, A Monitoring-Oriented Theory and Classification of Quantitative
    Specifications, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: Safety and liveness stand as fundamental concepts in formal languages, playing
    a key role in verification. The safety-liveness classification of boolean properties
    characterizes whether a given property can be falsified by observing a finite
    prefix of an infinite computation trace (always for safety, never for liveness).
    In the quantitative setting, properties are arbitrary functions from infinite
    words to partially-ordered domains. Extending this paradigm to the quantitative
    domain, where properties are arbitrary functions mapping infinite words to partially-ordered
    domains, we introduce and study the notions of quantitative safety and liveness.
    First, we formally define quantitative safety and liveness, and prove that our
    definitions induce conservative quantitative generalizations of both the safety-progress
    hierarchy and the safety-liveness decomposition of boolean properties. Consequently,
    like their boolean counterparts, quantitative properties can be min-decomposed
    into safety and liveness parts, or alternatively, max-decomposed into co-safety
    and co-liveness parts. We further establish a connection between quantitative
    safety and topological continuity and provide alternative characterizations of
    quantitative safety and liveness in terms of their boolean analogs. Second, we
    instantiate our framework with the specific classes of quantitative properties
    expressed by automata. These quantitative automata contain finitely many states
    and rational-valued transition weights, and their common value functions Inf,
    Sup, LimInf, LimSup, LimInfAvg, LimSupAvg, and DSum map infinite words into the
    totally-ordered domain of real numbers. For all common value functions, we provide
    a procedure for deciding whether a given automaton is safe or live, we show how
    to construct its safety closure, and we present a min-decomposition into safe
    and live automata.
acknowledgement: This work was supported in part by the ERC-2020-AdG 101020093 and
  the Israel Science Foundation grant 2410/22. N. Mazzocchi was affiliated with ISTA
  when this work was submitted for publication.
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    properties and automata. <i>Logical Methods in Computer Science</i>. 2025;21(2).
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025">10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025</a>
  apa: Boker, U., Henzinger, T. A., Mazzocchi, N. A., &#38; Sarac, N. E. (2025).  Safety
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    Science</i>. EPI Sciences. <a href="https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025">https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025</a>
  chicago: Boker, Udi, Thomas A Henzinger, Nicolas Adrien Mazzocchi, and Naci E Sarac.
    “ Safety and Liveness of Quantitative Properties and Automata.” <i>Logical Methods
    in Computer Science</i>. EPI Sciences, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025">https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025</a>.
  ieee: U. Boker, T. A. Henzinger, N. A. Mazzocchi, and N. E. Sarac, “ Safety and
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    Science</i>, vol. 21, no. 2. EPI Sciences, 2025.
  ista: Boker U, Henzinger TA, Mazzocchi NA, Sarac NE. 2025.  Safety and liveness
    of quantitative properties and automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science.
    21(2), 13149.
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    2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025">10.46298/lmcs-21(2:2)2025</a>.
  short: U. Boker, T.A. Henzinger, N.A. Mazzocchi, N.E. Sarac, Logical Methods in
    Computer Science 21 (2025).
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  text: "Life on Earth emerged when biomacromolecules were membrane-enclosed in a
    confined space where many essential chemical reactions were more likely to happen
    and thereby accelerate evolution. These kinds of membranes separated internal
    reactions from the outside chaos while staying flexible so that those primordial
    cells can move, adopt their shape and, most importantly, propagate. Such membrane
    plasticity still remains a defining feature of all modern cell types. This remarkable
    ability to change their shape is most prominently observed during their propagation
    (i.e., cell division). Throughout division, a cell undergoes drastic change in
    its shape, usually at the middle of the cell, pulling the two opposite membrane
    sides inward, closer to each other, and, finally, culminating in pinching off
    to separate the cell into two daughter cells. To achieve this, a cell needs to
    employ a protein machinery, usually termed divisome, that can coordinate all necessary
    intracellular processes with membrane remodelling and synthesis of other extracellular
    structures that decorate a cell. The focus of this dissertation is a membrane-remodelling
    FtsZ system that is present across all domains of life. FtsZ forms filaments that
    further self-organize into ring-like structures at the cell septum and together
    with other division proteins perform cell envelope synthesis and constriction.
    However, there are still knowledge gaps in our mechanistic understanding of division
    in both archaea and bacteria. My work presented in this dissertation centres around
    a simple yet not well understood question: How is the divisome positioned correctly
    at the mid-cell? To achieve the proper positioning, the divisome needs to (i)
    be recruited to the mid-cell and (ii) localized orthogonally to the long cell
    axis. I tackle these processes in two different systems by applying an in vitro
    biochemical bottom-up reconstitution approach. I use purified components of Haloferax
    volcanii and Escherichia coli divisome to explore how divisome is recruited to
    the mid-cell in archaea and how the Z-ring positions orthogonally to the long
    cell axis in bacteria, respectively. \r\n\r\nFirstly, I collaborate with archaeal
    cell and structural biologists to explore the assembly of early division proteins
    in two FtsZ-containing archaeon H. volcanii, a standard model system for understudied
    archaeal organisms. I particularly address the hierarchy of interactions that
    allow a tripartite complex formation (SepF-CdpB1-CdpB2) and how the hierarchy
    of interactions ultimately leads to the recruitment of FtsZ filaments to the septum.
    This part of work has been published in (Nußbaum et al., 2024). In collaboration
    with evolutionary biologists, I shed light on ancient features that archaeal divisome
    has retained to this day and also speculate on a property that it might have lost
    during the course of evolution. \r\n\r\nNext, I switch my attention to E. coli
    divisome. Particularly, I address the FtsZ’s intrinsic biophysical property that
    drives the Z-ring diameter, and thereby the perpendicular orientation of the Z-ring
    to the long cell axis based on suggested membrane curvature sensing mechanism
    (Vanhille-Campos et al., 2024). This property allows formation of different Z-ring
    diameters that match the variety of cell diameters present in prokaryotes. The
    results showcase that the distribution of charged amino acids in the intrinsically
    disordered linker at the C-terminus (CTL) of FtsZ is the major determining factor
    of Z-ring diameter with inter-CTL interactions as an underlying mechanism. \r\n\r\nFinally,
    I thoroughly explain the methodology I used to address the abovementioned projects,
    and I finish with a discussion on how early archaeal divisome assembly and curvature
    sensing mechanism in bacteria, at first sight unrelated topics, are interconnected
    and important groundwork for both fundamental and translational research. "
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  apa: Kojic, M. (2025). <i>Towards understanding the assembly mechanisms of the Z-ring
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  chicago: Kojic, Marko. “Towards Understanding the Assembly Mechanisms of the Z-Ring
    in Archaea and Bacteria.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20741">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20741</a>.
  ieee: M. Kojic, “Towards understanding the assembly mechanisms of the Z-ring in
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  ista: Kojic M. 2025. Towards understanding the assembly mechanisms of the Z-ring
    in Archaea and Bacteria. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Kojic, Marko. <i>Towards Understanding the Assembly Mechanisms of the Z-Ring
    in Archaea and Bacteria</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20741">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20741</a>.
  short: M. Kojic, Towards Understanding the Assembly Mechanisms of the Z-Ring in
    Archaea and Bacteria, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: "Cooperation, that is, one person paying a cost for another's benefit, is
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    to which humans cooperate with each other is also an essential feature that differentiates
    them from other animals. Cooperation occurs even in the absence of altruistic
    motivations, when it is selfishly incentivised by the expectation of a future
    reward. For example, many economic interactions are well described that way. This
    kind of cooperation requires that people exhibit reciprocal behaviour that acts
    as a mechanism that rewards cooperation.\r\nWith game-theoretic models, it is
    possible to formally study potential such mechanisms and under what conditions
    they can exist. This thesis contributes to this effort by analysing recently introduced
    models of cooperation that advance on previous work by taking into account the
    potential for pre-existing inequality among cooperating individuals as well as
    the different forms that reciprocity can take.\r\nIndividuals may differ both
    intrinsically, in their abilities, as well as extrinsically, in the amount of
    resources they have available. Allowing for such differences in a model of cooperation
    helps to understand how inequality affects the potential for, and outcomes of,
    cooperation among unequals. In this thesis, it is shown that in the presence of
    intrinsic inequality, a similar unequal distribution of resources can increase
    the potential for cooperation. This effect is stronger the smaller the group is
    in which cooperation takes place. It is also shown that under particular assumptions,
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    effort over time, they can thereby increase their efficiency and improve the collective
    outcome.\r\nCooperative behaviour in a two-person interaction can be rewarded
    either by direct reciprocation whenever the same two people interact again, or
    indirectly by a third party who observed the interaction. In the latter case of
    indirect reciprocity, individuals are proximally rewarded by a good reputation,
    which ultimately translates to being rewarded with cooperative behaviour by others.
    This mechanism can enable selfishly motivated cooperation even in circumstances
    where individuals are unlikely to meet again, akin to how money facilitates trade.
    While these two forms of reciprocity have mostly been studied in isolation, this
    thesis analyses both direct and indirect reciprocity in a general model in order
    to compare their relative effectiveness under different circumstances. The contribution
    of this thesis is an extension of previous work regarding a specific kind of interaction,
    whose parameters allow for convenient mathematical analysis, to the most general
    set of possible interactions."
acknowledgement: "The research for this thesis was supported by the European Research
  Council\r\n(grant agreements No. 863818 and No. 850529), the European Union’s Horizon
  2020 research and innovation programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.
  754411),\r\nthe Austrian Science Fund (grant DOI 10.55776/COE12), the French Agence
  Nationale\r\nde la Recherche under the Programme d’investissements d’avenir (project
  reference 17-\r\nEURE-0010) and the Australian Government through the Australian
  Research Council\r\n(grant No. SR200100005, “Securing Antarctica’s Environmental
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citation:
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  apa: Hübner, V. (2025). <i>Reciprocity and inequality in social dilemmas</i>. Institute
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  chicago: Hübner, Valentin. “Reciprocity and Inequality in Social Dilemmas.” Institute
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  ieee: V. Hübner, “Reciprocity and inequality in social dilemmas,” Institute of Science
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  ista: Hübner V. 2025. Reciprocity and inequality in social dilemmas. Institute of
    Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Hübner, Valentin. <i>Reciprocity and Inequality in Social Dilemmas</i>. Institute
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  short: V. Hübner, Reciprocity and Inequality in Social Dilemmas, Institute of Science
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acknowledgement: "I gratefully acknowledge the support of the ISTA Graduate School
  and the Scientific Service Units of\r\nISTA, whose resources made this work possible—especially
  the Imaging & Optics Facility, the Lab\r\nSupport Facility, and the Miba Machine
  Shop. I would like to thank two staff scientists in particular:\r\nRobert Hauschild
  (Imaging & Optics Facility) and Daniel Balazs (Lab Support Facility), for their\r\nassistance
  and advice. My PhD was partially funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)\r\n(10.55776/P37169
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  ista: 'Mondal S. 2025. Oxygen and sulfur redox : Conversion kinetics and phase equilibria.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria.'
  mla: 'Mondal, Soumyadip. <i>Oxygen and Sulfur Redox : Conversion Kinetics and Phase
    Equilibria</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20607">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20607</a>.'
  short: 'S. Mondal, Oxygen and Sulfur Redox : Conversion Kinetics and Phase Equilibria,
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.'
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  apa: Bett, V. K. (2025). <i>Evolution and regulation of the Z chromosome</i>. Institute
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  ama: Zivadinovic P. Scale-free activity as a basis for spatial learning and memory
    in the brain. 2025. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777</a>
  apa: Zivadinovic, P. (2025). <i>Scale-free activity as a basis for spatial learning
    and memory in the brain</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777</a>
  chicago: Zivadinovic, Predrag. “Scale-Free Activity as a Basis for Spatial Learning
    and Memory in the Brain.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777</a>.
  ieee: P. Zivadinovic, “Scale-free activity as a basis for spatial learning and memory
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  ista: Zivadinovic P. 2025. Scale-free activity as a basis for spatial learning and
    memory in the brain. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
  mla: Zivadinovic, Predrag. <i>Scale-Free Activity as a Basis for Spatial Learning
    and Memory in the Brain</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20777</a>.
  short: P. Zivadinovic, Scale-Free Activity as a Basis for Spatial Learning and Memory
    in the Brain, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.
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  text: "Game Theory is the mathematical formalization of social dynamics - systems
    where agents interact over time and the evolution of the state of the system depends
    on the decisions of every player. \r\nThis thesis takes the perspective of a single
    player and focuses on what they can guarantee in the worst case over the behavior
    of other players.\r\nIn other words, we consider that the objective of every other
    player in the game is exactly the opposite to the player.\r\nWe focus on sustained
    interactions over time, where the players repeatedly obtain quantitative rewards
    over time, and they are interested in maximizing their long-term performance.\t\r\nFormally,
    this thesis focuses on zero-sum games with the liminf average objective.\r\nTwo
    fundamental questions that Game Theory aims to answer are the following.\r\n\r\n1.
    How much can a player guarantee to obtain after the interaction?\r\n\r\n2. How
    to act in order to obtain the previously mentioned guarantee?\r\n\r\nThese questions
    are formalized by the concepts of \"value\" and \"optimal strategies\". \t\r\nWe
    study their properties on games that exhibit one or more of the following properties.
    \r\n\r\n1. Partial Observation: \r\nthe players can not perfectly observe the
    current state of the system during the game. We consider the model of (finite)
    Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes and prove that finite-memory strategies
    are sufficient to approximately guarantee the value.\r\n\r\n2. Perturbed Description:
    \r\nthe formal description of the game is perturbed by a small parameter.\r\nWe
    consider the model of (finite) Perturbed Matrix Games, and provide algorithms
    to check various robustness properties and to compute the parameterized value
    and optimal strategies.\r\n\r\n3. Stochastic Transitions: \r\nthe actions of the
    players determine the behavior of the evolution of the system, described as a
    probability distribution over the next state.\r\nWe consider the model of (finite)
    Perturbed Stochastic Games and provide formulas for the marginal value.\r\n\r\n4.
    Infinite States: \r\nthe system can be in infinitely many states.\r\nWe consider
    the model of Random Dynamic Games on a class of infinite graphs, prove the existence
    of the value, and quantify the concentration of finite-horizon values."
acknowledgement: "Funding sources The works included in this thesis were partially
  supported by:\r\n• Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grants 10.55776/COE12 and No RiSE/SHiNE
  S11407,\r\n• French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), grants ANR-21-CE40-0020
  (CONVERGENCE) and ANR-20-CE40-0002 (GrHyDy),\r\n• Fondation Mathématique Jaques
  Hadamard, grant PGMO RSG 2018-0031H,\r\n• European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator
  grant 863818 (ForM-SMArt),\r\n• Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID
  Chile), grant ACT210005,\r\n• Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico
  (Fondecyt Chile), grant 1220174,\r\n• Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica
  y Tecnológica (CONICYT Chile), grant\r\nPII 20150140,\r\n• Evaluation-orientation
  de la Coopération Scientifique and Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica
  y Tecnológica (ECOS-CONICYT), grant C15E03,\r\n• European Cooperation in Science
  and Technology (E-COST), grants CA16228 - European\r\nNetwork for Game Theory (GAMENET)
  and E-COST-GRANT-CA16228-c5a69859.\r\n"
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    Values and strategies in partially observable, perturbed, stochastic, and infinite
    games</i>. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234</a>'
  chicago: 'Saona Urmeneta, Raimundo J. “Robustness of Solutions in Game Theory :
    Values and Strategies in Partially Observable, Perturbed, Stochastic, and Infinite
    Games.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234</a>.'
  ieee: 'R. J. Saona Urmeneta, “Robustness of solutions in game theory : Values and
    strategies in partially observable, perturbed, stochastic, and infinite games,”
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.'
  ista: 'Saona Urmeneta RJ. 2025. Robustness of solutions in game theory : Values
    and strategies in partially observable, perturbed, stochastic, and infinite games.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria.'
  mla: 'Saona Urmeneta, Raimundo J. <i>Robustness of Solutions in Game Theory : Values
    and Strategies in Partially Observable, Perturbed, Stochastic, and Infinite Games</i>.
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20234</a>.'
  short: 'R.J. Saona Urmeneta, Robustness of Solutions in Game Theory : Values and
    Strategies in Partially Observable, Perturbed, Stochastic, and Infinite Games,
    Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.'
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  text: Zero-sum stochastic games are parameterized by payoffs, transitions, and possibly
    a discount rate. In this article, we study how the main solution concepts, the
    discounted and undiscounted values, vary when these parameters are perturbed.
    We focus on the marginal values, introduced by Mills in 1956 in the context of
    matrix games—that is, the directional derivatives of the value along any fixed
    perturbation. We provide a formula for the marginal values of a discounted stochastic
    game. Further, under mild assumptions on the perturbation, we provide a formula
    for their limit as the discount rate vanishes and for the marginal values of an
    undiscounted stochastic game. We also show, via an example, that the two latter
    differ in general.
acknowledgement: This work was supported by Fondation CFM pour la Recherche; the European
  Research Council [Grant ERC-CoG-863818 (ForM-SMArt)]; and Agence Nationale de la
  Recherche [Grant ANR-21-CE40-0020].
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  apa: Attia, L., Oliu-Barton, M., &#38; Saona Urmeneta, R. J. (2025). Marginal values
    of a stochastic game. <i>Mathematics of Operations Research</i>. Institute for
    Operations Research and the Management Sciences. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0297">https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0297</a>
  chicago: Attia, Luc, Miquel Oliu-Barton, and Raimundo J Saona Urmeneta. “Marginal
    Values of a Stochastic Game.” <i>Mathematics of Operations Research</i>. Institute
    for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0297">https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0297</a>.
  ieee: L. Attia, M. Oliu-Barton, and R. J. Saona Urmeneta, “Marginal values of a
    stochastic game,” <i>Mathematics of Operations Research</i>, vol. 50, no. 1. Institute
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  ista: Attia L, Oliu-Barton M, Saona Urmeneta RJ. 2025. Marginal values of a stochastic
    game. Mathematics of Operations Research. 50(1), 482–505.
  mla: Attia, Luc, et al. “Marginal Values of a Stochastic Game.” <i>Mathematics of
    Operations Research</i>, vol. 50, no. 1, Institute for Operations Research and
    the Management Sciences, 2025, pp. 482–505, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1287/moor.2023.0297">10.1287/moor.2023.0297</a>.
  short: L. Attia, M. Oliu-Barton, R.J. Saona Urmeneta, Mathematics of Operations
    Research 50 (2025) 482–505.
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