Patricio Guzmán

I am an Assistant Professor at the Departamento de Matemática of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, which is where I got the professional title of Mathematical Engineer and later the academic degrees of M.Sci and Ph.D. in Mathematics. During my formal education I was directed by Eduardo Cerpa, Lionel Rosier and Alberto Mercado. My work as postdoctoral researcher at the Centro de Modelamiento Matemático of the Universidad de Chile was supervised by Axel Osses.

Research

I am interested in control theory. I am currently studying the controllability and stabilization of partial differential equations, with special interest to those coming from applied models.

[5]FONDECYT INICIACIÓN 11240290 (Responsible) / March 2024 - March 2027.

Rapid Stabilization of Partial Differential Equations with Disturbances.
[4]MATH-AMSUD AMSUD220023 (National Coordinator) / January 2023 - December 2024.

Stabilization, Control and Inverse Problems in PDEs.
[3]MATH-AMSUD MATH190008 (Researcher) / January 2020 - December 2021.

Analysis, Control and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations.
[2]FONDECYT POSTDOCTORADO 3180363 (Responsible) / March 2018 - March 2021.

Control of High-Order Partial Differential Equations.
[1]ECOS-CONICYT C16E06 (Researcher) / January 2017 - December 2019.

Control of Distributed Systems with Applications in Physical Networks.

Journal Papers

[10]P. Guzmán and E. Hernández.

Rapid stabilization of an unstable heat equation with disturbance at the flux boundary condition.

System and Control Letters 196 (2025) Article 105973.
[9]P. Guzmán and E. Hernández.

Stabilization of the heat equation with disturbance at the flux boundary condition.

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 46 (17) (2023) 18035-18043.
[8]P. Guzmán and L. Rosier.

Null controllability of the structurally damped wave equation on the two-dimensional torus.

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 59 (1) (2021) 131-155.
[7]P. Guzmán.

Local exact controllability to the trajectories of the Cahn-Hilliard equation.

Applied Mathematics and Optimization 82 (1) (2020) 279-306.
[6]P. Guzmán.

Boundary stabilization of a microbeam model.

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 43 (9) (2020) 5979-5984.
[5]P. Guzmán.

Energy decay of a microbeam model with a locally distributed nonlinear feedback control.

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 467 (1) (2018) 238-252.
[4]E. Cerpa, P. Guzmán and A. Mercado.

On the control of the linear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations 23 (1) (2017) 165-194.
[3]N. Carreño and P. Guzmán.

On the cost of null controllability of a fourth-order parabolic equation.

Journal of Differential Equations 261 (11) (2016) 6485-6520.
[2]P. Guzmán and J. Zhu.

Exact boundary controllability of a microbeam model.

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 425 (2) (2015) 655-665.
[1]P. Guzmán.

Lipschitz stability in an inverse problem for the main coefficient of a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky type equation.

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications 408 (1) (2013) 275–290.

Conference Papers

[2]P. Guzmán and C. Prieur.

Rapid stabilization of a reaction-diffusion equation with distributed disturbance.

59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control; Jeju Island, Korea, 2020.
[1]P. Guzmán, S. Marx and E. Cerpa.

Stabilization of the linear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with a delayed boundary control.

3rd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations

and XI Workshop Control of Distributed Parameter Systems; Oaxaca, México, 2019.

Current and Former Students

[7]Renata Córdova (Since 2025) / Codirected with Hugo Parada.

Mathematical Engineering and M.Sci. in Mathematics.
[6]Christian Calle (Since 2025) / Codirected with Hugo Parada.

Ph.D. in Mathematics.
[5]Agustín Huerta (November 21, 2024) / Codirected with Hugo Parada.

Rapid stabilization for a wave equation with boundary disturbance.

Mathematical Engineering and M.Sci. in Mathematics.
[4]Felipe Labra (August 22, 2024) / Codirected with Hugo Parada.

Feedback stabilization of the linear Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with saturated controls.

Mathematical Engineering.
[3]Tomás Cortés (January 13, 2023) / Codirected with Rodrigo Lecaros.

On the null controllability of parabolic equations and applications.

Mathematical Engineering and M.Sci. in Mathematics.
[2]Gonzalo Arias (January 20, 2021) / Codirected with Eduardo Cerpa.

Stabilization of a microbeam model with distributed disturbance.

Mathematical Engineering and M.Sci. in Mathematics.
[1]Hugo Parada (September 1, 2020) / Codirected with Eduardo Cerpa.

Feedback stabilization of some unstable elliptic-parabolic systems.

Mathematical Engineering and M.Sci. in Mathematics.