Math 303-002 – Problems from Analysis

Spring 2008

Lihe Wang



The course is provided for students to learn basic materials for their thesis and it will cover three parallel problems of current research issues in analysis.

  1. Free boundary Problems.
  2. Fully Nonlinear Problems on Manifolds
  3. Mathematical Finance.

Free Boundary Problems: Tuesday 9:30-10:20. 210 MLH.

We will go over the seminal work by Alt and Caffarelli:

Existence and regularity for a minimum problem with free boundary.

J. Reine Angew. Math. 325 (1981), 105--144.

Related Papers:

1.Caffarelli, Luis A.(1-TX); Jerison, David(1-MIT); Kenig, Carlos E.(1-CHI)
Some new monotonicity theorems with applications to free boundary problems.
Ann. of Math. (2) 155 (2002), no. 2, 369--404.

 

 

2. Caffarelli, Luis A.; Jerison, David; Kenig, Carlos E. Global energy minimizers for free boundary problems and full regularity in three dimensions. Noncompact problems at the intersection of geometry, analysis, and topology, 83--97, Contemp. Math., 350, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2004.

 

3. A SINGULAR ENERGY MINIMIZING FREE BOUNDARY

DANIELA DE SILVA, DAVID JERISON

 


Fully Nonlinear Problems on Manifolds: Thursday 9:30-10:20. 210 MLH

 

We will start out with the notes by Guan: Topics in Geometric Fully Nonlinear Equations


Mathematical Finance: Friday 3:30-4:20. 210 MLH

 

We will talk about modeling of financial derivatives and financial and credit risks.

Ben’s notes.

 

Value at Risk. Math, Example.