Lukas Wessels

About Me

I am currently a visiting scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta hosted by Andrzej Święch and funded by a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Previously, I completed my PhD at Technische Universität Berlin and the Berlin Mathematical School. My supervisor was Wilhelm Stannat.

Contact

wessels (at) math.tu-berlin.de

Research Interests

  • Stochastic Optimal Control in Infinite Dimensions
  • Backward Stochastic (Partial) Differential Equations
  • Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
  • Mean Field Control and Mean Field Games

Publications

Doctoral Thesis:

See also my Google Scholar Profile.

Presentations

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.