Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2025

     

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CMOR 455 001 (CRN: 26861)

STOCHASTIC CONTROL & APP

Long Title: STOCHASTIC CONTROL AND APPLICATIONS
Department: Comp Appl Math Operations Rsch
Instructor: Pang, Guodong
Meeting: 4:00PM - 5:15PM TR (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Prerequisites: CAAM 382
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 6
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 30
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 19
Enrollment data as of: 26-DEC-2024 2:35PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: Scheduled Final Exam-Dept Room
 
Description: Stochastic control theory and applications in a variety of areas including dynamic resource allocation, finance, inventory, queueing and stochastic networks, and epidemiology. Topics include foundations of stochastic control for Markov processes and diffusions, maximum principle, dynamic programming and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, finite-horizon and infinite-horizon discounted and average problems, optimal stopping problem, impulse control, risk sensitive control, differential games, viscosity solutions, iteration and policy iteration and other numerical solution algorithms. Cross-list: CMOR 555. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Equivalent of advanced course work in calculus (e.g., MATH 212), statistics and probability theory (e.g., STAT 310 or STAT 311, STAT 418), linear algebra (e.g., CAAM 334 or CAAM 345) and analysis (e.g., MATH 302), and differential equations.