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Graduate Studies Graduate studies in Probability and Stochastic Methods at UD


People

   Faculty

     Yuk J. Leung, Associate Professor
Function theory.

     Wenbo Li, Professor
Probability theory and its applications, stochastic processes and modeling, Gaussian random fields, stochastic and combinatorial optimization/algorithms, random polynomials and matrices, Probability estimates of rare events, stochastic inequalities.

     Rakesh, Associate Professor
Inverse problems for hyperbolic and parabolic PDEs, nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs, optimal control of PDEs, Probabilistic Methods in Geometry.

     Anja Sturm, Assistant Professor
Probability theory, stochastic processes and modeling, interacting and branching particle systems, stochastic partial differential equations, diffusions and superprocesses, coalescent theory, applications to population genetics.

   Visiting Faculty

     Jörg-Uwe Löebus , Visiting Professor
Probability Theory and its applications in analysis - diffusion, particles, stochastic analysis.

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   Graduate students

     Ang Wei
     Xinyi Zhang

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Seminars and Other Activities

The Probability seminar series is currently organized by Dr. Li and Dr. Sturm.
The Analysis and PDE seminar series is currently organized by Dr. Rakesh.

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Graduate Studies

Students wishing to study and do research in Probability theory and its applications are advised to apply directly to the graduate program of the department.

   Courses

Courses which are of particular interest to this area are:

  MATH630 Probability Theory and Applications
  MATH631 Introduction to Stochastic Processes
  MATH850 Theory of Probability

Other courses in the Department of Mathematical Sciences of interest to students in Probability and Analysis are:

  MATH616 Introduction to Applied Mathematics I
  MATH672 Vector spaces
  MATH688 Combinatorics and Graph Theory I
  MATH694 Methods of Optimization
  MATH805 Real Analysis
  MATH806 Functional Analysis
  MATH807 Complex Analysis
  MATH835 Partial Differential Equations I

   Candidancy exam

The syllabus for the candidancy exam can be found here .

   Funding

The university and department provide funding for graduate student TAs and fellows.

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