Dr. Luis Yapu
Email • PhD in geometric mechanics, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs
Visiting Scientist (July – August 2026 | April – October, 2025)
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Room 02.384 | FAU DCN-AvH, Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Department Mathematik
I am a visiting scientist at FAU DCN-AvH, the Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning and Numerics – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavaria (Germany).
I did my PhD in geometric mechanics from a poisson geometric approach and afterwards I started to study partial differential equations.
I am specially interested in control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs.
With other colleagues I also study problems of scattering of some dispersive equations and I am also interested in semiclassical methods and its applications to physics.
My research interests include control theory, hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs, dispersive equations and semiclassical methods and its applications to physics.
PhD Thesis: Luis P. Yapu. Hamiltonization of the nonholonomic system given by a homogeneous ball rolling on a convex surface of revolution, Universidade Federal Fluminense (2017)
Research interests
My research interests include
• control theory,
• hierarchical and insensitizing controls of parabolic PDEs,
• dispersive equations
• semiclassical methods and its applications to physics
Projects
Publications
Gamboa, A. S., Límaco, J., & Yapu L. (2026) Controllability of a system of non-autonomous degenerate coupled parabolic equations, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 563(2), Part 1, 130777
Barreira, J., C. Límaco J., Silva S., & Yapu L. (2025) Hierarchical null controllability of a degenerate parabolic equation with nonlocal coefficient, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications
Límaco J., Lobosco R.M., & Yapu L. (2025) On the controllability of a system of parabolic equations with nonlocal terms, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 23(4), pp. 959-973 (2025)
Balseiro P., & Yapu L. (2021) Conserved quantities and Hamiltonization of nonholonomic systems, Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré C, Analyse Non Linéaire, 38(1), pp. 23-60
Milijevic M., & Yapu L. (2020) Growth of weighted volume and some applications, Archivum Mathematicum, 56(1), pp. 1-10
