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The FAU DCN-AvH Chair for Dynamics, Control and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at the Department of Data Science (DDS) at FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Bavaria (Germany) is co-funded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (AvH) and led by Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua has a broad research interest.

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The world as an accumulation of “shapes in motion”

Our Head Enrique Zuazua presents these “shapes in motion” that moves us. A video by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation.

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With a wide expertise in the areas of Applied Mathematics, PDE analysis, control theory, numerical analysis and computational mathematics we are a growing group of scientists who enjoy interdisciplinary work!

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Our Team

Our team works actively in the broad area of Applied Mathematics, developing and applying methods of Mathematical and Computational Mathematics to model, understand, design and control the dynamics of various phenomena arising in the interface of Mathematics with Engineering, Physics, Biology and Social Sciences.
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We are working on the interfaces of different areas

  • BIOLOGY & SOCIAL SCIENCES
    Control of diffusion models arising in Biology and Social Sciences
  • TRAFFIC & ENERGY
    Hyperbolic models arising in traffic flow and energy transport
  • MATERIAL SCIENCES
    Optimal design in Material Sciences
  • DESIGN & CONTROL
    The interplay between discrete and continuous modelling in design and control
  • IDENTIFICATION
    Inversion and parameter identification
  • PDE
    Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PDE)
  • MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
    Modeling and control of multi-agent systems
  • FRACTIONAL PDE
    Fractional PDE
  • MICRO-MACRO
    Micro-macro limit processes
  • TURNPIKE
    The emergence of turnpike phenomena in long-time horizons
  • TOOLS
    Development of new computation tools and software

 

Our Projects & Initiatives

Take a look what we are working on!
How our research collaborating with other institutions is taking Maths beyond

 

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Cooperation / Partners

The development and management of the FAU DCN-AvH’s website is supported and powered by our Web Management Expert:
Darlis Bracho Tudares

 

Research Cooperations

  • FAU MoD – Research Center for Mathematics of Data
  • UAM | University Autonomous of Madrid
  • DeustoCCM | Chair of Computational Mathematics at University of Deusto (Spain)

 

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INTERVIEW

Light on the dark side of the moon

You might be interested in the interview “Light on the dark side of the moon” to Prof. Dr. Enrique Zuazua, winner of a Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship.
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Enrique Zuazua, LS für Angewandte Analysis,Alexander von Humboldt-Professur. (Photo: FAU/Boris Mijat)