04/11/2005, 15:00 — 16:00 — Room P4.35, Mathematics Building
Diogo Gomes, CAMGSD
The Strange World of Partial Differential Equations
In this lecture we will survey several connections between calculus of variations (including control theory as a subset of CV) and PDEs. We will discuss a typical problems in calculus of variations: the Dirichlet integral and Laplace's equation, control theory and Hamilton-Jacobi equations, gradient-flows and dissipative equations, and the role of symmetries and conservation laws in other classes of equations such as wave or KdV.
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