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Thu, 29 Oct 2026

12:00 - 13:00
C5

Control-Theoretic Approach to Non-Convex Global Optimization

Yuyang Huang
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
Abstract
This talk introduces a novel framework for global optimization based on the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. We begin by reformulating the global optimization problem as an infinite-horizon optimal control problem. The solution to the associated HJB equation yields a value function that captures the landscape of the objective. By extracting gradient information from this value function, we obtain a feedback control that drives trajectories toward the global minimizers of general non-convex functions. Theoretical results establish explicit convergence rates for both the variational behavior of the value function and the pathwise convergence of the resulting trajectories. 


 

Thu, 12 Nov 2026

12:00 - 13:00
C5

Uniform Integrability and the Problem of Pressure Formation for Euler-Riesz Systems

Athanasios Tzavaras
(KAUST)
Abstract
We consider the system of compressible Euler equations augmented with a nonlocal term associated to a Riesz potential. This system emerges as a critical point of an action functional. Also it is equipped with a stress tensor that may be expressed in two distinct representations and gives rise to an associated bilinear fractional integral operator. (i)  We establish a uniform estimate for a bilinear fractional integral operator via restricted weak-type endpoint estimates and  Marcinkiewicz interpolation. The estimate leads to integrability analysis of the associated stress-tensor. (ii)  Then we focus on the problem without a pressure term and examine the question of whether the nonlocal interaction can give rise to a pressure estimated in a Lebesgue space.  We use both the energy and a quantity proposed by the compensated integrability method. This gives rises to interesting analytical questions on lower bounds of functionals that will be reviewed. 
 
Joint work with N. Alves (KAUST) and L. Grafakos (Univ. of Missouri).
Thu, 19 Nov 2026

12:00 - 13:00
C5

TBA

Florian Gammer
(University of Regensburg)
Abstract

TBA

Thu, 03 Dec 2026

12:00 - 13:00
C5

TBA

Lisa Valentini
(DAMTP University of Cambridge)
Abstract

TBA