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Relaxation and Necessary Conditions for Optimal Control Problems

Relaxation is a procedure in optimal control problem in which extra elements are added to the domain of an optimization problem in order to guarantee the existence of a minimizer. Of course the relaxe...

The energy critical nonlinear wave equation in 3D

We will discuss recent works with Duyckaerts and Merle, dealing with global well posedness, blow-up and soliton resolution, for the energy critical wave equation....

Polytope joint Lyapunov functions for stable and for stabilizable positive switched systems

We consider "positive" switched linear system of odes and propose a new method for the approximation of the upper Lyapunov exponent and lower Lyapunov exponent. The method is based on the iterative co...

Generic Aubry sets on surfaces

Given a Tonelli Hamiltonian on a compact manifold, we can construct a compact invariant subset of the cotangent bundle enjoying variational properties which has the distinguished property of being a L...

Agent-based models for opinion dynamics

In this talk I will overview the classical models for opinion formation dynamics and related problems (e.g. consensus problem and clustering phenomena) and I will introduce a model in which the agent ...

Omogeneizzazione di equazioni di Hamilton-Jacobi modellata su varieta' compatte arbitrarie

Mostriamo che i risultati sull'omogeneizzazione periodica di equazioni di Hamilton-Jacobi possono essere generalizzati sostituendo il toro con una qualsiasi varieta' compatta. Un tale approccio consen...

Shedding light on solar cells by atomistic simulations

Abstract: The conversion of sunlight into electricity by photovoltaic materials is one of most attractive ways to satisfy the increasing demand of clean and sustainable energy. Nanoscience is strongly...

Il problema isoperimetrico con densità: esistenza, regolarità, e limitatezza delle soluzioni

In questo seminario discuteremo il problema isoperimetrico su \mathbb{R}^N dotato di una densità; in altre parole, ci si preoccupa di minimizzare il perimetro a volume fissato, considerando però perim...

Problemi di raggiungibilità per sistemi stocastici controllati in presenza di vincoli di stato

Dato uno spazio di probabilità ed un sistema di equazioni differenziali stocastiche controllate scopo di questo lavoro è caratterizzare l'insieme dei punti dai quali sia quasi sicuramente possibile ra...

An easy-to-use numerical approach for simulating traffic flow on networks

We study a simple model for traffic flow on networks based on the LWR model. We consider a system of conservation laws with space-dependent and discontinuous flux, each of which describes the evolutio...