MTH 6330 Calculus of Variation and Optimal Control

Credit Hours: 3

Covers Euler-Lagrange equation, minimizers, constraints, critical points and semilinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). Includes optimal control for ordinary differential equations and PDEs, Pontryagin’s maximum principle, differentiability in Banach spaces, gradient methods and regularization.
Prerequisite: MTH 6230