Bernoulli’s free boundary problem is an overdetermined problem in which one seeks an annular domain such that the capacitary potential satisfies an extra boundary condition. There exist two different types of solutions: elliptic and hyperbolic solutions. Elliptic solutions are “stable” solutions and tractable by variational method and maximum principle, while hyperbolic solutions are “unstable” solutions of which the qualitative behavior is less known. I will present a recent joint work with Antoine Henrot in which we show the qualitative behavior of hyperbolic solutions by a new flow approach.

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On veut expliquer la forme des oeufs d’eulimnadia, petit animal vivant dans des mares éphémères, en utilisant les outils de l’optimisation de forme. En effet, la théorie de l’évolution laisse penser que la forme des objets que l’on retrouve dans la nature résulte d’un processus d’optimisation, c’est à  dire que leur forme est telle que l’objet en question est le plus à  même de résister aux contraintes qui s’exercent sur lui. On propose un critère naturel optimisé par la forme de l’oeuf, que l’on modélise mathématiquement par un problème de minimisation de fonctionnelle de forme s’écrivant comme combinaison convexe du rayon intérieur, du diamètre et de la densité, notion que l’on définira. On présente le travail réalisé jusqu’à  présent.

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Let us consider the bilinear Schr”{o}dinger equation $ipartial_t psi(t)=Apsi(t)+u(t)Bpsi(t)$ in $L^2(G,mathbb C)$ for $G$ a compact quantum graph. We assume $B$ a bounded symmetric operator, $u$ a control function and $psi^0$ is the initial state of the system. The operator $A=-Delta$ is the Laplacian equipped with self-adjoint type boundary conditions into the vertices of the graph. Provided the well-posedness of the equations, we present assumptions on $B$ and on the spectrum of $A$ implying the global exact controllability in suitable subspaces of $mathcal H$. When the previous assumptions fail, we introduce a weaker notion of controllability allows to provide interesting results also when the graph $G$ is a complex structure and we are not able to verify the spectral assumptions for the global exact controllability.”

Dans cet exposé on s’intéressera à  l’observation et au contrôle de l’équation des ondes dans certains cas « pathologiques ». Plus précisément, nous étudierons dans un premier temps la stabilité du processus de contrôle HUM lorsque les coefficients de l’équation sont mal connus (disons bruités). Puis on donnera des résultats d’observation/contrôle pour des équations à  coefficients très peu réguliers. Une partie des ces résultats a été obtenue en collaboration avec Sylvain Ervedoza (Cnrs, I.M. Toulouse ).

We will first review some variational formulations of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with impedance boundary conditions in smooth and non-smooth domains. Secondly, the singularities of this system in polyhedral domains will be described. The talk is based on joint works with M. Costabel (Rennes), M. Dauge (Rennes) and J. Tomezyk (Valenciennes).

The problem under consideration belongs to the wide family of quantum wave guides. Such guides are unbounded domains endowed with a simple structure at infinity. For instance, in two dimensions, they coincide outside of a compact set with two half-strips of constant width. The Dirichlet Laplace operator in these guides has a non empty essential spectrum. The game is to investigate the presence of discrete spectrum under the threshold of the essential spectrum. In two dimensions the situation is well-known: For any wave guide of constant width and non identically zero curvature, bound states do exist. In three dimensions, recent results provide the existence of infinitely many bound states in conical layers with smooth profiles. In this talk we address the archetypic non smooth conical layer, which we name after Fichera. It can be viewed as an octant from which is removed another octant translated from the first one along the diagonal line of coordinates. We characterize the essential spectrum and prove that the discrete spectrum has at most a finite number of elements. Numerical computations tend to prove that there is exactly one bound state. We mention various generalizations of this result. From a joint work with Yvon Lafranche (Rennes) and Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos (Paris-Sud).

Joint work with Z. Ammari, and F. Nier. In this work, we study how multiscale analysis and quantum mean field asymptotics can be brought together. In particular we study when a sequence of one-particle density matrices has a limit with two components: one classical and one quantum. The introduction of “separating quantization for a family” provides a simple criterion to check when those two types of limit are well separated. We give examples of explicit computations of such limits, and how to check that the separating assumption is satisfied.

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