Control
of Partial and Differential Equations and Applications Trimester
October
1st -- December 18th 2010
Seminars
Friday,
October 8th: room 314
P. Cannarsa (2pm): Carleman estimates for degenerate parabolic equations with application to control and inverse problems
B. Dehman (3:30pm): On Lamé's system
Friday,
October 29th: amphi Darboux
G. Leugering (2pm): Propagation phenomena on networks: identification, optimization and control
B.-Y. Zhang (3:30pm): On initial boundary value problems for the Korteweg-de-Vries equation
In this talk,
I intend to give a rough survey of recent progresses in the study of
various initial-boundary-value problems of the Korteweg-de Vries
equation posed on the whole line R,on a torus T, on a half line R+, and on a finite interval (0, L).
Friday,
December 3rd: amphi Darboux
O. Imanuvilov (2pm): Some noncontrollability results for the heat equation with memory
U. Boscain (3pm): Controllability of the Schrodinger equation via adiabatic methods
Tuesday, December 14th: amphi Darboux
11am:
C. Jones (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of
Warwick): Mathematical challenges of climate research: data
assimilation and uncertainty
Data
assimilation (DA), whose methods grew out of control theory, has not
been used in climate studies anything like to the extent it has in
weather prediction. I will discuss whether this is likely to change and
argue that DA has a lot to offer climate research, particularly when
cast in a Bayesian framework. Motivating examples from paleoclimate and
ocean studies will be given that will serve to outline the major
challenges arising in DA when it is used to tackle climate problems.
