In a series of recent papers, Martel and Merle solved the long-standing open problem on the existence of blow up solutions in the energy space for the critical generalized Korteweg- de Vries equation. Martel and Merle introduced new tools to study the nonlinear dynamics close to a solitary wave solution. The aim of the talk is to discuss the main ideas developed by Martel-Merle, together with a presentation of previously known closely related results.

In this article we prove new results concerning the structure and the stability properties of the global attractor associated with a class of nonlinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations driven by a standard multidimensional brownian motion. We first use monotonicity methods to prove that the random fields either stabilize exponentially rapidly with probability one around one of the two equilibrium states, or that they set out to oscillate between them. In the first case we can...

In this article we prove new results concerning the structure and the stability properties of the global attractor associated with a class of nonlinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equations driven by a standard multidimensional Brownian motion. We first use monotonicity methods to prove that the random fields either stabilize exponentially rapidly with probability one around one of the two equilibrium states, or that they set out to oscillate between them. In the first case we can...

We show that the global-in-time solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations driven by highly oscillating external forces stabilize to globally defined (on the whole real line) solutions of the same system with the driving force given by the integral mean of oscillations. Several stability results will be obtained.

Convergence of global solutions to stationary solutions for a class of degenerate parabolic systems related to the p-Laplacian operator is proved. A similar result is obtained for a variable exponent p. In the case of p constant, the convergence is proved to be ${¹}_{loc}$, and in the variable exponent case, L² and $W^{1,p\left(x\right)}$-weak.

The Martin compactification of a bounded Lipschitz domain $D\subset {\mathbf{R}}^n$ is shown to be $\bar{D}$ for a large class of uniformly elliptic second order partial differential operators on $D$.Let $X$ be an open Riemannian manifold and let $M\subset X$ be open relatively compact, connected, with Lipschitz boundary. Then $\bar{M}$ is the Martin compactification of $M$ associated with the restriction to $M$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on $X$. Consequently an open Riemannian manifold $X$ has at most one compactification which is a compact Riemannian...

In this paper we present an analysis of the partial differential equations that describe the Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) processes. The mathematical model requires at least two partial differential equations, one describing the gas phase and one corresponding to the solid phase. A key difficulty in the process is the long processing times that are typically required. We address here the issue of optimization and show that we can choose appropriate pressure and temperature to minimize these...

For d > 1, let $\left(S_{d}f\right)(x,t)={ʃ}_{{ℝ}^n}{e}^{ix·\xi }{e}^{{it\left|\xi \right|}^d}f̂\left(\xi \right)d\xi$, $x\in {ℝ}^n$, where f̂ is the Fourier transform of $f\in S\left({ℝ}^n\right)$, and $(S_d*f)\left(x\right)=su{p}_{0<t<1}\left|\left(S_{d}f\right)(x,t)\right|$ its maximal operator. P. Sjölin ([11]) has shown that for radial f, the estimate (*) $({ʃ}_{\left|x\right|<R}|(S_d*f)\left(x\right){{|}^{p}dx)}^{1/p}\le C_R\parallel f{\parallel }_{H_{1/4}}$ holds for p = 4n/(2n-1) and fails for p > 4n/(2n-1). In this paper we show that for non-radial f, (*) fails for p > 2. A similar result is proved for a more general maximal operator.