DUCA Alessandro

Position Associate professor
Teaching department
Faculté des Sciences et Technologies
Research group Partial Differential Equations
Mail

IECL – Site de Nancy
Faculté des sciences et Technologies
Campus, Boulevard des Aiguillettes
54506 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy

Email alessandro.duca@univ-lorraine.fr
Office 327

Presentation:

  • From October 2024: Coordinator of the Nancy pole of the ANR project QuBiCCS (project manager: Nabile Boussaid; project poles : Besançon – Nancy).
  • From October 2022: Unlimited-term Researcher, Associate Professor, ISFP at Centre Inria Nancy – Grand Est (France).
  • February 2022 – October 2022: Tenure track Assistant professor (“Ricercatore di tipo B”) at the University of Naples – Parthenope (Italy).
  • October 2020 – February 2022: Post-Doctoral position at the “Laboratoire de Mathématique de Versailles” financed by “Fondation Mathématiques Jacques Hadamard” (Supervised by Vahagn Nersesyan).
  • September 2018 – September 2020: Post-Doctoral position at the Institut Fourier financed by ANR ISDEEC: Interaction entre Systèmes Dynamiques, Equations d’Evolution et Contrôle (Supervised by Romain Joly).
  • 2014 – 2018: PhD student in mathematics in the institutions “Università degli studi di Torino” (Italy), “Politecnico di Torino” (Italy) and “Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté” (France) (supervised by Nabile Boussaid, Thomas Chambrion and Riccardo Adami).

Main publications:

  1. A. Duca. Global exact controllability of bilinear quantum systems on compact graphs and energetic controllability. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2020. DOI, PDF.
  2. A. Duca, R. Joly, D. Turaev. Control of the Schrödinger equation by slow deformations of the domain. Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré, Analyse non linéaire, 2023. DOI, PDF.
  3. A. Duca, V. Nersesyan. Bilinear control and growth of Sobolev norms for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 2024. DOI, PDF.

Other publications:

  1. M. Abdelli, A. Ben Aissa, A. Duca, Well-posedness and exponential decay for the Euler-Bernoulli beam conveying fluid with non-constant velocity and dynamical boundary conditions. Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 2021. DOI, PDF.
  2. K. Ammari, A. Duca. Controllability of localized quantum states on infinite graphs through bilinear control fields. International Journal of Control, 2021. DOI, PDF.
  3. K. Ammari, A. Duca. Controllability of periodic bilinear quantum systems on infinite graphs. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2020.DOI, PDF.
  4. P. Cannarsa, A. Duca, C. Urbani. Exact controllability to eigensolutions of the bilinear heat equation on compact networks. Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. – S, 2022. DOI, PDF.
  5. C. Castro, A. Duca. Achieving energy permutation of modes in the Schrödinger equation with moving Dirac potentials. Mathematical Control and Related Fields, 2023, in press. PDF.
  6. A. Duca. Bilinear quantum systems on compact graphs: well-posedness and global exact controllability. Automatica J. IFAC, 2021. DOI, PDF.
  7. A. Duca. Controllability of bilinear quantum systems in explicit times via explicit control fields. International Journal of Control, 2021. DOI, PDF.
  8. A. Duca. Simultaneous global exact controllability in projection of infinite 1D bilinear Schrödinger equations. Dynamics of Partial Differential Equations, 2020. DOI, PDF.
  9. A. Duca, R. Joly. Schrödinger equation in moving domains. Annales Henri Poincaré, 2021. DOI, PDF.
  10. A. Duca, R. Joly, D. Turaev. Permuting quantum eigenmodes by a quasi-adiabatic motion of the potential wall. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2020. DOI, PDF.
  11. A. Duca, V. Nersesyan. Local exact controllability of the 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the case of Dirichlet boundary conditions, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, in press 2024. PDF.
  12. A. Duca, E. Pozzoli. Small-time controllability for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on $\mathbb{R}^N$ via bilinear electromagnetic fields, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, in press 2024. PDF.

Preprints:

  1. K. Ammari, E. Bonnetier, A. Duca. Networks of sign-changing metamaterials: existence and spectral properties, 2024. PDF.
  2. R. Buffe, A. Duca. Exact controllability to eigensolutions of the heat equation via bilinear controls on two-dimensional domains, 2024. PDF.
  3. A. Duca, E. Pozzoli, C. Urbani. On the small-time bilinear control of a nonlinear heat equation: global approximate controllability and exact controllability to trajectories, 2024. PDF.

Invited speaker to talks in conferences, workshops and schools:

  1. Journées ANR QuBiCCS, October 2024, Besançon (France).
  2. Control Theory & Inverse Problems (CTIP 2024), May 2024, Monastir (Tunisia).
  3. JEDP de l’IECL, March 2024, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  4. 10 ans de l’IECL, October 2023, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  5. ICIAM Congress, Minisymposium: Interplay between controllability and qualitative aspects of stochastic dynamical systems, August 2023, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan).
  6. Journées QUACO, June 2023, Laboratory Jacques-Louis Lions, Paris (France).
  7. Journée scientifique Matière, systèmes et dispositifs quantique, June 2023, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  8. Winter School on Control, stability and Singularities formation in Nonlinear PDE’s, December 2022, Hammamet (Tunisia).
  9. Analysis and Control of (bi)linear PDEs, September 2022, Tor Vergata University of Rome (Italy).
  10. Analysis, Control and Inverse Problems for Diffusive Systems with Application to Natural and Social Sciences, July 2022, University of Bari (Italy).
  11. Journées Jeunes EDPistes, March 2022, Institut Camille Jordan, Lyon (France).
  12. Controllability of PDEs in physics models and applied sciences, February 2020, Rome (Italy).
  13. VIII Partial differential equations, optimal design and numerics, August 2019, Benasque (Spain).
  14. Identification and Control: Some challenges, June 2019, Monastir (Tunisia).
  15. GDR Dynqua Bordeaux, February 2019, Bordeaux (France).
  16. Workshop on PDE’s: Modelling & Theory, 2018, Monastir (Tunisia).
  17. Journées Jeunes EDPistes, March 2018, Nancy (France), poster exposition.
  18. Second School and Workshop: Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Mechanics, February 2018, Rome (Italy).
  19. Colloque INFINITI IHP, November 2017, Paris (France), poster exposition.
  20. EDP-Normandie, October 2017, Caen (France), poster exposition.
  21. Mathematical Control Theory, June 2017, Porquerolles (France).
  22. La journée DISQUO, December 2016, Inria Paris (France).
  23. Réunion du GT EDP May 2016, l’école des Mines à Paris (France).

Invited speaker to seminars:

  1. May 2024, CRAN, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  2. September 2023, New York University of Shanghai, Shanghai (China).
  3. March 2023 (control group workshop), Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  4. February 2023 (control group workshop), Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  5. January 2023 (control group workshop), Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  6. January 2023, INRIA, Nancy (France).
  7. April 2022, University of Hagen (Germany).
  8. December 2021, research group “Mathematics in Cairo” (Egypt).
  9. Novembre 2021, Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
  10. October 2021, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Toulouse (France).
  11. Avril 2021, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Versailles (France).
  12. Avril 2021, Laboratoire de Mathématiques et leurs Applications de Valenciennes (France).
  13. March 2021, Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy).
  14. January 2020, University of Monastir (Tunisia).
  15. December 2019, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Toulouse (France).
  16. December 2019 (control group workshop), Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Toulouse (France).
  17. May 2019, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambery (France).
  18. January 2019, University of Monastir (Tunisia).
  19. December 2017, Institut Fourier of Grenoble (France).
  20. November 2017, Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine, Nancy (France).