The 5th PDE Real Analysis Seminar

(COE Partner Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Hokkaido University )

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Organizers :
S. Koike (Saitama University), H.Arai (University of Tokyo), Y. Giga (Hokkaido University)
Period :
December 15, 2004 (Wednesday)
Place :
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences the University of Tokyo, Room #122
Programme :
December 15, 2004 (Wednesday) 10:30-11:30
Andrzej Swiech (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations for optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations.
ABSTRACT:
We will give an overview of new results in the theory of infinite dimensional Kolmogorov and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations associated with the optimal control of stochastic Navier-Stokes equations. In particular we will present a viscosity solution approach to such equations and we will discuss implications and possible future developments of the theory.
December 15, 2004 (Wednesday) 11:45-12:45
Francesca Da Lio (Dipartimento di Matematica P. e A.Universit di Padova researcher)
A GEOMETRICAL APPROACH TO FRONT PROPAGATION PROBLEMS IN BOUNDED DOMAINS WITH NEUMANN -TYPE BOUNDARY AND APPLICATIONS
ABSTRACT:
We talk about a new definition of weak solution for the global-in-time motion of a front in bounded domains with normal velocity depending not only on its curvature but also on the measure of the set it encloses and with a contact angle boundary condition. We apply this definition to study the asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of some local and nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations.