In recent years, mirror symmetry for open strings has exhibited some new connections between symplectic and enumerative geometry (A-model) and complex algebraic geometry (B-model) that in a sense lie between classical and homological mirror symmetry. I review the rôle played in this story by matrix factorizations and the Calabi-Yau/Landau-Ginzburg correspondence.

The influence of a global delayed feedback control which acts on a system governed by a subcritical complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is considered. The method based on a variational principle is applied for the derivation of low-dimensional evolution models. In the framework of those models, one-pulse and two-pulse solutions are found, and their linear stability analysis is carried out. The application of the finite-dimensional model allows to reveal...