Shortcode : CONTENAIR BOX
Team and research areas
The team consists of 12 professors, 2 CNRS researchers, 2 associate researchers, 6 doctoral students, and 1 post-doctoral student. The team's activity is organized around six main, often intersecting, research areas:
- Deterministic and stochastic control and games
- Optimization, optimal transport and calculus of variations
- Mathematics applied to life sciences
- Analysis and application to biology
- Numerical Analysis and Asymptotic Analysis
- Signal and image processing
(6 PR, 1 PR Emérite, 5 MCF, 1 CR CNRS, 2 Chercheurs Associés, 7 doctorants, responsable de l'équipe : Miloud Sadkane)
- Abdallah Abdel Wahab, Doctorant UBO
- Fétiveau Arthur, Doctorant UBS
- Thierno Balde, Doctorant UBO
- Julien Bernis, Chercheur Associé, UBO
- Piernicola Bettiol, PR, UBO
- Rainer Buckdahn, PR, UBO
- Vincent Calvez, DR CNRS
- Hélène Canot, Chercheure Associée, UBS
- Christelle Davezac Doctorante UBS
- Emmanuel Frénod, PR, UBS
- Jacques Froment, PR, UBS
- Christiane Godet-Thobie, PR Emérite, UBO
- Chloé Jimenez, MCF, UBO
- Claire Launay, MCF, UBS
- Victor Lopez Mego, Doctorant UBO
- Vuk Milisic, CR CNRS
- Olivier Pourquier, MCF, UBS
- Marc Quincampoix, PR, UBO
- Anaïs Rat, Post-doctorante, UBO
- Mickael Robbé, MCF, UBO
- Jérémy Rouot, MCF, UBO
- Miloud Sadkane, PR, UBO
- Béatrice Vedel, MCF, UBS
- Corentin Vazia, Doctorant UBS
Deterministic and stochastic control and games:
- Optimality conditions, stability in optimal control, metric regularity
- Characterization of the value of deterministic and stochastic control problem by Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations
- Control with a very large number of agents
- Zero-sum differential games with incomplete information, information games where information is suddenly revealed
- Mean-field games
- Optimal geometric control, optimal synthesis
Optimization, optimal transport and calculus of variations:
- Optimal transport with congestion
- Optimal semi-discrete transport
- Variational mean-field games
- Hamilton-Jacobi in Wasserstein space
- Optimality conditions, regularity of minimizers in the calculus of variations
Mathematics applied to life sciences:
- Mathematical modeling
- Individual and collective movement of cells
- Ecology (spread of invasive species) and Evolution (quantitative genetics)
- Transport equations, kinetic equations
- Reaction-diffusion equations, wave propagation
- Epidemiology
Analysis and application to biology:
- Cell motility, modeling and mathematical analysis of adhesion
- Integro-differential equations and inclusions
- Elasto-visco-plastic behavior laws
- Blood flow, cell transport
Numerical Analysis and Asymptotic Analysis:
- Numerical methods for optimal control
- Eigenvalue problems for structured matrices (symplectic, palindromic)
- Acceleration of implicit schemes for large algebro-differential systems
- Stabilization of the wave equation with Kelvin-Voigt type damping
- Multi-scale modeling of the propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a composite material
- Numerical methods based on homogenization for the simulation of magnetized plasmas
- Construction of Statistical Learning tools based on PDEs
Signal and image processing:
- Mathematical representations of relevant information contained in digital images and reconstruction of missing data
- Applications to image restoration, data fusion and medical imaging problems
- Multifractal analysis and wavelet analysis
Coordinator:
- ERC consolidator grant, WACONDY (2021-2025)
- PERP exploratoire Maths-Vives, Projet Ciblé "Mamutcell" (2024-2029)
Seminars and working groups:
The seminar in Brest: Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the conference room (building H, Faculty of Sciences, UBO Brest)
the seminar in Vannes: Friday at LMBA Vannes (UBS, Yves Coppens building located in the Tohannic Research center in Vannes)
Animation of networks or programs:
- PGMO Project « Stochastic Control under State Constraints » PGMO- 2015-2832H (2015-2017), and PGMO 2016-1570H (2016-2018).
- PGMO Projet « Optimal Control for Stochastic Differential Equation » from 2018/2019 to 2019/2020
- PEPS JCJC project « Existence, Conditions Nécessaires et Applications en Optimisation Dynamique » March-September 2022
Participation in networks or programs:
- ANR TheoGeneDrive (2019-2025)
- ANR FLUOMOTORS (2024-2028)
- GdR 3475 « Analyse multifractale »
- ANR « Amatis »
- ANR GYPSI «GYrokinetic high Performance Simulation for ITER»
- GdR-Math & Entreprises et AMIES
- Thematic Network CNRS RT2175 Optimization
- GdR 3362 « Contrôle des EDP »
- European Project «Verification of global gyrokinetic codes and development of new algorithms for gyrokinetic and kinetic codes - CfP-WP15-ER/IPP-01»
- European Project « Synergetic numerical-experimental approach to fundamental aspects of turbulent transport in the tokamak edge - CfP-WP14-ER-01/Swiss Confederation-01 » January 2014 -- December 2014
- European Project « ITN SADCO » (Sensitivity Analysis for Deterministic Control Design), 2009-2014
- ANR CAESAR
- Thematic Network MAIAGES (MAthématiques de l’Imagerie, Apprentissage et GEométrie Stochastique)
- GdR IASIS (Information, Apprentissage, Signal, Image et ViSion)
- ANR COSS (COntrol on Stratified Structures): ANR-22-CE40-0010 (Réseau thématique CNRS RT2175 Optimisation).
Recently organized conferences:
- International Workshop on «Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitiative Risk », Shandong University at Weihai, China, July 11--14, 2019
- International conference «Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Control and New Developments », Weihai, China, August 15--19, 2018
- Conference «Stochastic Control. BSDE and new developments », Roscoff, France, September 11--15, 2017
- International conference «Stochastic Dynamical Systems and Ergodicity », Weihai, China, August 7--11, 2017
- Conference « Sample Days », Brest, Septembre 2021
- Advances in Stochastic Control and Optimal Stopping with Applications in Economics and Finance, CIRM, Marseille-Luminy, September 12--16, 2022
- Workshop " jeux dynamiques", Quimper, October 20--22, 2021