Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• Partner 1: University of Padova

• Alain Sarlette has been pursued a fruitful collaboration with the group of Francesco Ticozzi on “dynamical systems aspects of quantum systems”: besides concluding their work on “symmetrization and quantum consensus”, mainly initiated before A.S. joined Inria, a novel line of work in the direction of quantum thermalization and quantum random walks has been explored. Further joint work for the future is planned about among others generalized Markovian feedback and weak reservoir engineering.

• Partner 2: Ghent University.

• A. Sarlette is establishing a collaboration with applied mathematicians interested in quantum control at UGent (Dirk Aeyels and Lode Wylleman) in the framework of thesis co-supervisions. One PhD student is co-supervised with Dirk Aeyels in the framework of Belgian Inter-University Attraction Poles “Dynamical Systems, Control and Optimization” network 2013-2017. A second PhD student is also co-supervised with Dirk Aeyels in the framework of Chinese Scholarship Council and Flanders Research Fund grant "Developing control mechanisms to counter biases and drifts in coordination", 2013-2015. Finally, benefiting from a UGent starting grant on "Coordination control algorithms inspired from nonlinear PDEs and lattices", 2013-2017, Alain Sarlette also supervises a third PhD student at Ghent University.