We introduce an $A_\infty$ map from the cubical chain complex of the based loop space of Lagrangian submanifolds with Legendrian boundary in a Liouville Manifold $C_{*}(\Omega_{L} \Lag)$ to wrapped Floer cohomology of Lagrangian submanifold $\CW^{-*}(L,L)$. In the case of a cotangent bundle and a Lagrangian co-fiber, the composition of our map with the map from $\CW^{-*}(L,L) \to C_{*}(\Omega_q Q) $ as defined in \cite{Ab12} shows that this map is split surjective.

Traditional algebraic geometric invariants lose some of their potency in positive characteristic. For instance, smooth projective hypersurfaces may be covered by lines despite being of arbitrarily high degree. The purpose of this dissertation is to define a class of hypersurfaces that exhibits such classically unexpected properties, and to offer a perspective with which to conceptualize such phenomena. Specifically, this dissertation proposes an analogy between the eponymous q-bic hypersurfaces—special hypersurfaces of degree q+1, with q any power of the ground field characteristic, a familiar example given by the corresponding Fermat hypersurface—and low degree hypersurfaces, especially quadrics and cubics. This analogy is substantiated by concrete results such as: q-bic hypersurfaces are moduli spaces of isotropic vectors for a bilinear form; the Fano schemes of linear spaces contained in a smooth q-bic hypersurface are smooth, irreducible, and carry structures similar to orthogonal Grassmannian; and the intermediate Jacobian of a q-bic threefold is purely inseparably isogenous to the Albanese variety of its smooth Fano surface of lines.

In the study of advanced geometry, we shall deal with a certain important relation between pairs of figures in space, and also between their properties. There are two distinct parts to analytic geometry, the analytic work and the geometric interpretation. Two systems of geometry, depending upon different elements with the same number of coordinates, will have the same analytic expressions and will differ only in the interpretation of the analysis. In such a case it is often sufficient to know the meaning of the coordination and the interpretation of a few fundamental relations in each system in order to find for a theorem in one geometry a corresponding theorem in the other. The nature of this relation is explained by the theorem of duality which assets that a dual, or reciprocal, statement can be derived from a given statement.

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Simulations of blasts in an urban environment were performed using Loci/BLAST, a fulleatured fluid dynamics simulation code, and analyzed. A two-structure urban environment blast case was used to perform a mesh refinement study. Results show that mesh spacing on and around the structure must be 12.5 cm or less to resolve fluid dynamic features sufficiently to yield accurate results. The effects of confinement were illustrated by analyzing a blast initiated from the same location with and without the presence of a neighboring structure. Analysis of extreme pressures and impulses on showed that confinement can increase blast loading by more than 200 percent.

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