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2007/01/30

16:30-18:00   Room #118 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jerome Le Rousseau (Laboratoire d'Analyse Topologie Probabilit\'es
Universit\'e de Provence / CNRS)
Controllability of parabolic equations with non-smooth coefficients by means of global Carleman estimates
[ Abstract ]
We shall review the different concepts of controllability for parabolic equations and a fix-point method to achieve null-controllability of classes of semilinear equations. It is mainly based on observability inequalities and a precise knowledge of the observability constant. These inequalities are obtained by means of global Carleman estimates. We shall review their derivations and how they can be obtained in the case of non-smooth coefficients. We shall also present some open questions.
Part of this work is in collaboration with Assia Benabdallah and Yves Dermenjian (also from Universit\\'e de Provence).