NCMW - Control Theory for Partial Differential Equation

Speakers and Syllabus


Pre-requisites: The audience should be familiar with measure and integration, functional analysis, Sobolev spaces, and well-posedness of linear ordinary and partial differential equations.
Target Audience: Ph.D. students, postdocs, scientists in research labs, young faculty members in educational institutions.

 Syllabus:

Name of the Speaker and their Affiliation No of Hours Syllabus to be covered in modules of at least hrs ( Tentative)

Dr Mrinmay Biswas
IIT Kanpur

5
(7.5 hrs)
Semigroup Theory and Time dependent Sobolev Spaces: A brief review of time-dependent Sobolev spaces. Motivation for semigroup , Strongly continuous semigroups and infinitesimal generators, adjoint semigroups and their generators. Semigroup of contractions : theorems of Lumer-Philips, Stone and Hille-Yosida. Analytic semigroup. Non-homogeneous linear evolution equations : various concepts of solutions. Application to existence and regularity of solutions for Transport, Heat and Wave, KDV equations
Dr Rajib Dutta
IISER Kolkata
5
(7.5 hrs)
Weak Solutions , Compactness and Energy Methods for Linear PDE: Motivation for Banach valued functions and compactness theorems for time dependent Sobolev spaces. Weak solutions for evolution equations, Galerkin approximation for solution of Heat equation, energy method for weak solutions of heat and wave equations. Very week (/Transposition solution) for Transport, KDV, Heat and Wave equation.
Dr Shirshendu Chowdhury
IISER Kolkata
5
(6.5 hrs)
Brief Recall of Controllability and Stabilizability for Linear ODE (Covered in the last NCM Workshop in IISER Kolkata) Abstract linear control system and application to hyperbolic equations, Admissible control and observation operators. Various notions of controllability and observability. Duality between and control and observation. Application to Transport, Wave and KDV equations. Spectral methods (Ingham inequalities and non harmonic Fourier series), Compactness uniqueness Method.
Dr Debanjana Mitra
IIT Bombay
5
(7.5 hrs)

Exact Controllability of Wave Equation: Method of multiplier,extension methods, Holmgren’s uniqueness theorem, Hörmander’s Theorem, GCC, Transmutation approach etc.Stabilization of Wave Equation: Wonham’s theorem.
Datko’s Theorem, Gramian, Urquiza’s method, Ricatti based feedback, Backstepping.

Dr Debayan Maity
TIFR-CAM, Bangalore
5
(7.5 hrs)
Null Controllability of Heat equations via Spectral methods (The moment method, Biorthogonal family of exponentials, non- harmonic Fourier series), The Lebeau-Robbiano approach (back-stepping type) and The Fursikov-Imanuvilov strategy (Carleman estimates) , Fundamental solution methods, flatness approach, back-stepping design, Approximate Controllability of Heat Equations.
Dr Dharmatti Sheetal, IISER TVM 5
(6.5 hrs)

Optimal control for Heat equation, Regularity of control via optimality system.Optimal control for Wave equation, Regularity of control via optimality system
Relation between Optimal control, Stabilization, Approximate and Null controllability.

Prof Mythily Ramaswamy ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 5
(6 hrs)
Feedback Stabilization for Heat and KDV equation, Finite dimensional feedback, Ricatti based feedback, Back-stepping Feedback. Introduction to Controllability and Stabilizability for Non- Linear PDE

 

References:

  1. Alain Bensoussan,; Giuseppe Da Prato,; Michel C. Delfour, Sanjoy K. Mitter,Representation and control of infinite dimensional systems. Second edition. Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2007.
  2. Jean-Michel Coron, Control and nonlinearity. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 136. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2007.
  3. A. V. Fursikov, O. Yu. Imanuvilov Controllability of evolution equations. Lecture Notes Series,34. Seoul National University, Research Institute of Mathematics, Global Analysis Research Center, Seoul, 1996.
  4. Vilmos Komornik, Paola Loreti, Fourier series in control theory. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005.
  5. Vilmos Komornik;. Exact controllability and stabilization. The multiplier method. RAM:Research in Applied Mathematics.Masson, Paris; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, 1994.
  6. M. Krstic, A. Smyshlyaev,.: Boundary control of PDEs: A course on back-stepping designs,vol. 16, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2008
  7. Weijiu Liu, Elementary Feedback Stabilization of the Linear Reaction-Convection-Diffusion Equation and the Wave Equation, Mathématiques & Applications (Berlin) [Mathematics & Applications], 66. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2010.
  8. Jean-Pierre RAYMOND, Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations, Ficus Lecture Notes https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~raymond/book-ficus.pdf
  9. Fredi Tröltzsch, Optimal control of partial differential equations. Theory, methods and applications.
  10. Marius Tucsnak and George Weiss. Observation and control for operator semigroups.Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 2009.
  11. Jerzy Zabczyk, Mathematical control theory. An introduction. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. ,Inc., Boston, MA, 1995.
  12. Enrique Zuazua, Controllability of Partial Differential Equations, Lecture Notes, https://dcn.nat.fau.eu/wp-content/uploads/Topics-PDE-Control.pdf

Names of Possible Tutors with their Affiliation and Abbreviations

Sr. No. Name Affiliation Abbreviation
1 Samprita Das Roy IISER Kolkata SDR
2 Subrata Majumdar IIT Bombay SM
3 Jiten Kumbhakar IISER Kolkata JK
4 Wasim Akram IIT Bombay WA
5 Sakil Ahamed IIT Bombay SA
6 Manish Kumar IISER Kolkata MK
7 Manika Bag IISER TVM MB
8 Ritabrata Jana IISER TVM RJ

 

 


Time Table

Date Lecture 1
9.30

11.00
Tea
11.00

11. 30
Lecture 2
11.30

1.00
Lunch
1.00

2.30
Lecture 3
2:30

3. 30
Tea
3.30
-
4. 00

Tutorial/
Discussion

4.00-5.15

Snacks
5.30
1st week             (Speaker + two tutors)  
Mon 04/12/2023 MB T E A RD L U N C H SC T E A MB + SDR+SM S N A C K S
Tue 05/12/2023 MB RD SC RD+ JK+WA
Wed 06/12/2023 MB RD SC SC +SA+MK
Thur 07/12/2023 MB RD SC MB + SDR+SM
Fri 08/12/2023 MB RD SC RD+ JK+WA
Sat 09/12/2023 SC DMi SD SC +SA+MK
2nd week                
Mon 11/12/2023 MR T E A DMi L U N C H SD T E A SD+ SDR+SM S N A C K S
Tue 12/12/2023 MR DMi SD DMi+ +JK+WA
Wed 13/12/2023 DM DMi MR DM+ +SA+MK
Thur 14/12/2023 DM DMi MR MR+ SDR+SM
Fri 15/12/2023 DM SD MR DMi+ +JK+WA
Sat 16/12/2023 DM SD DM DM+ +SA+MK
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