Learning Seminar on MFG 

  Academic year 2024-2025

Time/Location: Tuesdays 9-11 AM at MW100a (9-10 AM when there is PDE seminar at 10:20-11:20am)





Resources:



Note on Mean Field Games by Ryzhik    LINK 


Lecture Note by Cardaliaguet   LINK 


Lecture Note by Gueant   LINK 


Monograph by Fleming and Soner on Controlled Diffusion Processes   LINK 


The book (with 2 volumes) by Carmona and Delarue, more on the probabilistic side and quite long: LINK 


The book by Philip Yam, which is very short and concise from probabilistic perspectives. Prof. Ng has a hard copy of it. LINK 


(Ch. 5 is Optimal Switching) Continuous-time Stochastic Control and Optimization with Financial Applications by Huyen Pham LINK 


Schedule of talks:


 




DATE 

SPEAKER

TITLE

Remark

Sep 3  

Adrian Lam

Introduction 

Intro to Note by Cardaliaguet 

Sep 10 
9-10am

Ali Farsad

2.1-2.3 Deterministic Optimal Control

 

Sep 17 
9-10am

Ali Farsad

2.1-2.3 Deterministic Optimal Control

    

Sep 24 
9-10am

Jia-Wei Chu

2.4-2.6 Stochastic Optimal Control

Note 1    Notes 2

Oct 1  

Ali Farsad

2.7-2.8 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Viscosity solutions

Note 1

Oct 8  

no seminar

 

 

Oct 15, 22  

Ali Farsad

2.7-2.8 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Viscosity solutions

Note 1

Oct 29  

Chang-Hong Wu

Game Theory Ch. 4  

Ch. 3 of Cardaliaguet
Notes  

Nov 5  

Chang-Hong Wu

Game Theory Ch. 4 

Ch. 3 of Cardaliaguet
Notes  

Nov 12  

Chang-Hong Wu

Game Theory Ch. 4  

Ch. 3 of Cardaliaguet
Notes  

Nov 19  

Jia-Wei Chu

Optimal Switching Problems  

Ch. 5 of Pham's monograph
Notes  

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