Lukas Wessels
About Me
I am currently a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology hosted by Andrzej Święch. Previously, I completed my PhD at Technische Universität Berlin and the Berlin Mathematical School. My supervisor was Wilhelm Stannat. My research is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) via grant CRC 910.
Contact
wessels (at) math.tu-berlin.de
Technische Universität Berlin
Sekretariat MA 7-2
Straße des 17. Juni 136
10623 Berlin
Germany
Research Interests
- Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Systems
- Stochastic Optimal Control in Infinite Dimensions
- Backward Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations
- Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations
Publications
- with W. Stannat, Deterministic Control of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Evol. Equ. Control Theory (2021), arXiv:1905.09074.
- with W. Stannat, Peng’s Maximum Principle for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, SIAM J. Control Optim. (2021), arXiv:2105.05194.
- with W. Stannat, Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Optimal Control of Semilinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, submitted, arXiv:2112.09639.
Doctoral Thesis:
- Optimal Control of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Equations, Technische Universität Berlin, 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16218.
See also my Google Scholar Profile.
Talks
- PDE Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 20, 2022, (Slides).
- PhD Defense, Technische Universität Berlin, July 19, 2022, (Slides).
- Oberseminar Dynamics, Technische Universität München, virtual, July 4, 2022, (Slides).
- 9th Colloquium on Backward Stochastic Differential Equations and Mean Field Systems, Annecy, June 27 – July 1, 2022, (Slides).
- Langenbach-Seminar, WIAS Berlin, virtual, December 1, 2021, (Slides).
- German Probability and Statistics Days, virtual, September 27 – October 1, 2021, (Slides, Link to the recording).
- International Conference on Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, Potsdam, August 29 – September 2, 2021, (Slides).
- 9th BMS Student Conference, virtual, March 3 – 5, 2021, (Slides).
- Workshop on Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, August 20 – 22, 2019 (Slides).
- International Conference on Control of Self-Organizing Nonlinear Systems, Warnemünde, Rostock, September 9 – 13, 2018 (Slides).
Courses Taught
- Winter semester 2020/2021: Differential Equations I, Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
- Winter semester 2018/2019: Calculus II for Engineering, Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
- Summer semester 2018: Stochastics for Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
- Winter semester 2017/2018: Calculus I for Engineering, Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin
- Winter semester 2014/2015: Mathematics and Statistics for Biology, Institute of Mathematics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Book Recommendations
These are some books that speak to me as a mathematician and have informed the way I think about my career.
- Timothy Gowers, June Barrow-Green, and Imre Leader (eds.): Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Contains introductions to (almost) all areas of modern pure mathematics. Great to broaden the mathematical horizon.
- Paul R. Halmos: I Want to be a Mathematician (freely available). Paints a good picture of what it’s like to be a professional mathematician in the US: Starting from high school, going through undergrad, grad school, postdoc, all ranks of professor and a department chair.
- Allison K Henrich, Emille D. Lawrence, Matthew A. Pons, and David G. Taylor (eds.): Living Proof (freely available). Tells the stories of 41 mathematicians and how they got to where they are now, highlighting obstacles they had to overcome on their journeys.
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