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In this short overview I present some recent results about the KAM theory for multidimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) trying to avoid technicalities. In particular I will not state a precise KAM theorem but I will focus on the dynamical consequences for the PDEs: the existence and the stability (or not) of quasi periodic in time solutions. Concretely, I present the complete study of the nonlinear beam equation on the $d$-dimensional torus recently obtained in collaboration with H. Eliasson...

Symmetries of the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation are expressed in action-angle coordinates and characterized in terms of the periodic and Dirichlet spectrum of the associated Zakharov-Shabat system. Application: proof of the conjecture that the periodic spectrum $\cdots \<{\lambda }_k^{-}\le {\lambda }_k^{+}\<{\lambda }_{k+1}^{-}\le \cdots$ of a Zakharov-Shabat operator is symmetric,. ${\lambda }_k^{\pm }=-{\lambda }_{-k}^{\mp }$ for all $k$, if and only if the sequence ${\left({\gamma }_k\right)}_{k\in \mathbb{Z}}$ of gap lengths, ${\gamma }_k:={\lambda }_k^{+}-{\lambda }_k^{-}$, is symmetric with respect to $k=0$.