From one integrable system to another: solving two inverse spectral problems on the Hardy space

At the starting point of this talk are two integrable Hamiltonian systems in infinite space dimension. The first one is the Benjamin--Ono equation and was introduced about forty years ago in Fluid Mechanics. The second one is the Szegö equation and was introduced about ten years ago as a model of a non dispersive Hamiltonian evolution. Both systems admit a Lax pair structure, involving operators on the Hardy space of the disk enjoying special commuting properties with the shift operator : Hankel operators and Toeplitz operators. I will focus on the inverse spectral problems for these Lax operators, on the similarities in the strategy for solving them and on the dramatically different outputs.