04/11/2005, 15:00 — 16:00 — Sala P4.35, Pavilhão de Matemática
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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