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The Hartree equation is an important example of nonlinear Schrödinger evolution. It can be derived as the mean field limit of a system of many non-relativistic bosons with pair interaction. Such a limit is now well understood for a wide class of interaction potentials and initial quantum configurations. The model has many physical applications, e.g. in studying Bose-Einstein condensation. It is thus important to have a control of the rate of convergence towards the limiting dynamics, for it would give a quantification of the error caused by the approximation of many particles with an infinite number of them. In this talk I will present a recent result, obtained with Z. Ammari and B. Pawilowski, where we provide bounds for the rate of convergence towards the Hartree dynamics for generic many-body initial quantum states.

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We will talk about necessary and sufficient conditions for an entire solution $u$ of a biharmonic equation with exponential nonlinearity $e^u$ to be a radially symmetric solution. We need to know the asymptotic expansions of the solution $u$ and its laplacian at infinity in order to apply the standard Moving-Plane-Method (MPM) for obtaining the radial symmetry for a system of equations.

Plan de l’exposé : 1/ Introduction (historique,origine des équations et comparaison avec équations de Navier-Stokes incompressibles). 2/ Position du problème (Estimations de l’énergie anisotropiques).

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This lecture is devoted to address the problem of controlling uncertain systems submitted to parametrized perturbations. We introduce the notion of averaged control according to which the average of the states with respect to the uncertainty parameter is the quantity of interest. We observe that this property is equivalent to a suitable averaged observability one according to which the initial datum of the uncertain dynamics is to be determined by means of averages of the observations done. We will first discuss this property in the context of finite-dimensional systems to later consider Partial Differential Equations, mainly, of wave and parabolic nature. As we shall see, surprisingly, the averaging process with respect to the unknown parameter may lead a change of type ion the PDE under consideration from hyperbolic to parabolic, for instance, significantly affecting the expected control theoretical properties. We will also present some open problems and perspectives of future developments.