Role model: Colm O’Mahony

Colm Mulhern: PhD Thesis (2012)

This thesis will explore the deterministic dynamics of systems of coupled oscillators. In particular, the focus of the thesis will be concerned with the transport properties of these systems. Of interest is how particles work together, cooperatively, to achieve directed transport. For this reason, the strength of the coupling between the particles will serve as the main control parameter. Furth...

Understanding RUP Integrity of COLM

The authenticated encryption scheme COLM is a third-round candidate in the CAESAR competition. Much like its antecedents COPA, ELmE, and ELmD, COLM consists of two parallelizable encryption layers connected by a linear mixing function. While COPA uses plain XOR mixing, ELmE, ELmD, and COLM use a more involved invertible mixing function. In this work, we investigate the integrity of the COLM str...

Migration Core gement Traffic Control COLM

The ColM Family, Polymorphic Toxins Breaching the Bacterial Cell Wall

Bacteria host an arsenal of antagonism-mediating molecules to combat for ecologic space. Bacteriocins represent a pivotal group of secreted antibacterial peptides and proteins assisting in this fight, mainly eliminating relatives. Colicin M, a model for peptidoglycan-interfering bacteriocins in Gram-negative bacteria, appears to be part of a set of polymorphic toxins equipped with such a cataly...

Evaluation of the Common Land Model (CoLM) from the Perspective of Water and Energy Budget Simulation: Towards Inclusion in CMIP6

Land surface models (LSMs) are important tools for simulating energy, water and momentum transfer across the land–atmosphere interface. Many LSMs have been developed over the past 50 years, including the Common Land Model (CoLM), a LSM that has primarily been developed and maintained by Chinese researchers. CoLM has been adopted by several Chinese Earth System Models (GCMs) that will participat...