AMCS 336 Numerical Methods for Stochastic Differential Equations with connections to Machine Learning Teaching stochastic differential equations Ito integral Monte Carlo Multilevel Monte Carlo Importance sampling Variance Reduction Kolmogorov Backward Equation Fokker-Planck equations Hamilton-Jabobi-Bellman Stochastic Optimal Control The goal of this course is to give basic knowledge of stochastic differential equations and their numerical solution, useful for scientific and engineering modeling, guided by some problems in applications in financial mathematics, material science, geophysical flow problems, turbulent diffusion, control theory, and Monte Carlo methods.
