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In this thesis we discuss Mori Projected Time Dynamics in a quantum mechanical system. As a precursor to calculating the time derivative of a mixed state of the system we examine the derivation of the Mori-Zwanzig formalism and different ways of calculating the time dynamics of various quantum systems. We consider the exact calculation of the time derivative of a mixed state. We then calculate the same time evolution using Mori Theory and compare the two results. From the general calculation of the Mori Equation we were able to perform a series of simple tests to compare Mori Theory to the known result. We discovered that in each of the three simple cases the Mori Equation and the direct calculation of the derivative give the same result, but in the more complicated situations the two calculations differed. This result leads us to believe that the Mori Equation is an accurate way of calculating the derivative of a mechanical variable in a quantum system.

The use of death iconography, especially in the mode of memento mori, was a prevalent and effective means of conveying the Roman Catholic Church’s message of eternal reward through faith to provide hope to those who would follow. This contributed to the success of the Church’s internal reformation in the 16th century. This dissertation will explore a heretofore unexamined shift in the specific artistic mode of memento mori and its rhetorical function in ameliorating the image of the Church during the Counter- Reformation. Specifically, it examines in the mode of sculpture, the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and the Ossuary of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini; for the mode of painting, the works of Michelangelo Caravaggio and Pietro da Cortona; and for the mode of literature, the works of Giambattista Marino and Cesare Ripa. The artists and works selected for this study provide salient examples of memento mori of the Italian Baroque and its rhetorical function in the preservation of the Catholic faith. These works mark a distinct shift from the medieval modes of death representation which also indicates a shift in presentation of teleological theology in the eschatological message of the Church that is at the core of the faith. This change in rhetorical approach had a positive effect on the Church’s image and reputation that would comfort followers and encourage new converts. Close reading is performed on each of the sample works and their embedded rhetoric is examined. Since the fear of death and the hope for eternal life are the driving sentiments that these works evoke, their power to influence people is strong. Naturally, this increased the chances of the message of the Church being recognized, remembered, and spread. The use of transformed death iconography, especially in the mode of memento mori, was a prevalent and effective means of conveying the Church’s message of eternal reward through faith to provide hope to those who would follow. This contributed, in part, to the success of the Roman Catholic Church’s internal reformation at the time of the Protestant Schism in the 16th century. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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Within a year I lost three close family members. My grandfather, my grandmother and my stepfather. Three very different deaths and therefore very different mourning periods were entangled and intertwined. Death suddenly became a ubiquitous part of my life, and the sorrow an overshadowing part of my everyday. This period in my life became the starting point for my thesis 'Dying Traditions'. In todays Western Society we have become so good at prolonging life, that most people get to live a long life and die of old age. But the advancements in medical science have, together with the institutionalization, removed death from our daily life. We are no longer in contact with death aside from what we see through media and movies. We are missing a way of coping with the natural death, which makes it difficult to grasp and surrounds it with a taboo. With my work I want to facilitate a conversation surrounding death. By the use of contemporary jewellery and silversmithing work I want to place the conversation and presence of death in both the public, private and personal space. I want to create a starting point for new rituals to work through a mourning period. I make use of my own personal experiences as a starting point to create contemporary Memento Mori objects fitting for todays Northern European Society. / <p>Photos are removed due to copy rights.</p>

This thesis explores the work of three contemporary Japanese artists - Yasumasa Morimura, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami - in relation to cross-cultural exchanges and differences between Japan and the West. In carrying out such an investigation, this study illustrates how these artists play with Japanese and Western cultural forms in the context of postmodern challenges to concepts of essence and authenticity, and in a technologically transformed world shaped by unprecedented global flows of information, people, products and capital. In Morimura's art-making, this play is characterized by appropriations and parodies of Western cultural icons. The idea of identity-as-essence is superseded by a vision of identity-as-performance - a conception of identity as a creative act, taking place within an immanent system of global exchanges. Whilst Morimura's work tends to reify difference, for Mori the opposite is true. Melding arcane scientific and religious ideas, Mori creates technological spectacles with which she fantasizes a vanishing of determinate identities and difference within the encompassing field of a culturally amorphous techno-holism. Murakami's 'superflat' art raises the possibility of resolving this tension between the reification and effacing of difference. In his work, 'Japan' and 'the West' are represented as discrete entities that, at the same time, emerge already entangled, as effects in a preexisting system of global exchanges.

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Le programme des modèles minimaux (MMP) est l'une des grandes théories développée en géométrie algébrique en vue de classifier les variétés algébriques complexes. Pour certaines familles d'exemples, le MMP est très bien connu. Notamment, pour les variétés toriques et horosphériques, la théorie se résume à une étude assez simple de familles de polytopes, dits polytopes moments, et elle s'étend même à des variétés plus singulières que dans le cas général. Le but de cette thèse est d'étendre ces résultats à des compactifications sphériques d'un groupe. On décrit dans un premier temps ces variétés, et on classifie tous les polytopes moments attachés à de telles compactifications. Puis on démontre que le MMP appliqué sur ces compactifications sphériques se traduit en termes de polytopes moments. Enfin on donne un programme codé en SageMath qui permet de donner les polytopes apparaissant dans le MMP d'une compactification sphérique d'un groupe simple. / The Minimal Model Program (MMP) is one of the greatest theories in Algebraic Geometry developped to classify algebraic varieties. For some families of algebraic varieties, the MMP has been studied in depth. In particular, for toric and horospherical varieties, it comes down to a quite easy study of families of polytopes, called moment polytopes, and it could be adapted to weaker hypothesis of singularities. The goal of this thesis is to show that this reduction can be extended to spherical compactifications of a group. First of all we describe these varieties and classify all moment polytopes of such compactifications. Then we prove that the MMP applied on this spherical compactifications reduces to a study of a families of this moment polytopes. Finaly we give a computer program, coded in SageMath, which gives all polytopes appearing in the MMP of a simple group's spherical compactification.

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