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Alejandro Soto Franco
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Working at the intersection of PDE theory, geometric analysis, and high-performance quantitative systems. Research spans fluid mechanics, active matter physics, and non-stationary stochastic models of financial markets.
Papers and preprints in fluid mechanics, active matter and geometric analysis.
- Surgery in membrane fusion
- Chaos-generating periodic orbits of topological defects in confined active nematics
Long-form writing on mathematics, physics and systems.
- Keeping a Prediction-Market Book Fresh, Quickly
- Semantic Segmentation: Resolving a Domain and Typing its Pieces
- A High School Student's Introduction to Physics
Rust, GPU and quantitative systems, most of them open source.
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Surgery in membrane fusionZenodo (2026) · doi:10.5281/zenodo.22063174
Chaos-generating periodic orbits of topological defects in confined active nematicsProc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123, e2516670123 (2026) · arXiv:2503.10880
Articles
- Aug18Keeping a Prediction-Market Book Fresh, QuicklyOne book update crosses over five orders of magnitude in time. Measured…
- Aug9Semantic Segmentation: Resolving a Domain and Typing its PiecesEvery segmentation method resolves a domain into pieces and then assigns…
Projects
- ferrum-gpuPure-Rust GPU compute substrate with Python bindings. FFT kernels compil…
- PolybiusLive Polymarket prediction market engine. BTC/ETH WebSocket price feed d…
- CartanRiemannian geometry on smooth manifolds. Connection forms, parallel tran…