Explaining Stanford's Applied Math PhD Qualification Exam (PART ONE)

Have you ever wondered what’s on the Applied Math PhD Qualification Exam At Stanford?
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Link To Stanford Math PhD Qualifying Exam Syllabus: https://mathematics.stanford.edu/acad...

References:
- Evans, Partial differential equations, AMS.
- Øksendal, Stochastic differential equations: an introduction with applications, Springer.

Time-Stamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:16 Elliptic PDEs/Laplace Equation
2:03 Poisson Equation
2:37 Green’s Function (Elliptic)
4:39 Parabolic PDEs
5:10 Heat Equation
6:14 Green’s Function (Parabolic)
7:33 Random Walks/Brownian Motion
8:25 Connection To Parabolic PDEs
9:26 Hyperbolic PDEs
10:12 Wave Equation
11:00 1-D Schrodinger Equation
11:42 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
13:25 Conservation Laws
13:51 Shocks
14:38 Weak And Entropy Solutions
15:29 Lax = Oleinik Formula
15:57 Stochastic Modeling
16:19 Brownian Motion (Wiener Process)
17:25 Stochastic Integral
18:21 Ito’s Formula
19:03 Stochastic Differential Equations
19:39 Forward Kolmogorov Equation
20:22 Backward Kolmogorov Equation
20:52 References

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