Professor of Mathematics (emeritus)
Research Interests: Control theory,
differential equations in linear spaces.
e-mail: hof@math.ucla.edu
Education:
Licenciado en Matematica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1960.
Ph. D., New York University, Courant Institute of
Mathematical
Sciences, 1965.
Research:
About half a century ago, the Russian
mathematician L. S. Pontryagin formulated
completely for the first time
the fundamental problem of the calculus of variations
and solved it with PontryaginŐs
Maximum Principle. This result unified calculus of
variations and control theory
of ordinary differential equations. I have been working
for many years on infinite
dimensional generalizations of the maximum principle. The aim
is the control theory of
partial differential equations, a subject of much theoretical and
practical interest.
Teaching:
I have worked for many years in the incorporation of technology to
teaching, first using
the classical computing languages (Fortran, Pascal, C), then using
computer algebra
systems (Mathematica, Maple, Matlab), e-mail and the Internet. For
details see below.
The interview is a shorter version of the teaching statement.
I am presently involved in an e-textbook project together with
faculty members of
several Math Departments.
For details see The Live Books Project.
Books:
1.
H. O. Fattorini, The Cauchy Problem, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its
Applications
vol. 18, Addison-Wesley 1983.
2.
H. O. Fattorini Second Order Linear Differential Equations in Banach Spaces,
Notas
de Matem‡tica vol. 99, Elsevier - North Holland 1985.
3. H. O. Fattorini, Infinite Dimensional
Optimization and Control Theory,
Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications
vol. 62, Cambridge University
Press, 1999.
4.
H. O. Fattorini, Infinite Dimensional Optimization and Control Theory (reprint
edition
of 3), Beijing World Publishing Company, Beijing, 2001.
5.
H. O. Fattorini, Infinite Dimensional Linear Control Systems; the Time Optimal
and
Norm Optimal Problems, North-Holland Mathematical Studies vol. 201,
Elsevier,
Amsterdam 2005.
1.
H. O. Fattorini, Sufficiency of the maximum principle for time optimality,
Cubo:
A Mathematical Journal 7 (2005) 27-37.
2.
H. O. Fattorini, Smoothness of the costate and the target in the time and
norm
optimal problems, Optimization 55 (2006) 19-36.
3.
H. O. Fattorini, Linear Control Systems in Sequence Spaces, Functional
Analysis
and Evolution Equations: The Gunter Lumer Volume (2007) 273-290.
4.
H. O. Fattorini, Regular and strongly regular time and norm optimal
controls,
Cubo: A Mathematical Journal 10 (2008) 77-92.
5.
Time and norm optimality of weakly singular controls, Progress in Nonlinear
Differential
Equations and Their Applications 80 Springer Basel AG (2011)
233-249. reprint
6.
Strong regularity of time and norm optimal controls, Dynamics of Continuous,
Discrete
and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications and Algorithms 18 (2011)
436-459.
reprint
Mathematica computations
7.
Time and norm optimal controls: A survey of recent results and open
problems,
Acta Matematica Scientia 31B (2011) 2203-2218. reprint
8.
Splicing of time optimal controls, Dynamic Systems and Applications 21
(2012)
169-186. reprint