- stochastic control theory
- fully coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs)
- game theory
- mean field FBSDEs
- mean field games
M. Sc. Julian Wendt

Research interests
Curriculum Vitae
Current position
since 2019: Research Assistant (PhD student), Friedrich Schiller University Jena
PhD thesis: Diffusion Control and Games [preprint]pdf, 2 mb · en
Education
2017 - 2019: M.Sc. Mathematics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Master's thesis: The Maximum Principle and Controlled Diffusion [dbt]Externer Link
2014 - 2017: B.Sc. Mathematics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Organizing
I am co-organizing the PhD Seminar of the Frege-Kolleg.
Publications
Publications in peer-reviewed journals
- S. Ankirchner, N. Kazi-Tani, J. Wendt and C. Zhou
Large ranking games with diffusion control
Mathematics of Operations Research, 2023. [HAL]Externer Link [informs]Externer Link - S. Ankirchner, A. Fromm and J. Wendt
A transformation method to study the solvability of fully coupled FBSDEs.
Stochastics, 94:1, 1-25, 2022. [HAL]Externer Link [Taylor & Francis]Externer Link
Preprints
- S. Ankirchner, N. Kazi-Tani and J. Wendt
The role of correlation in diffusion control ranking games
2023. [HAL]Externer Link - S. Ankirchner, H. Bernburg and J. Wendt
A simple random walk game
2022. [HAL]Externer Link - S. Ankirchner, N. Kazi-Tani, J. Wendt and C. Zhou
Large ranking games with non-observable diffusion control
2021. [HAL]Externer Link - S. Ankirchner and J. Wendt
A sharp upper bound for the expected interval occupation time of Brownian martingales
2021. [HAL]Externer Link
Talks
- “Large ranking games with diffusion control”, Workshop on Stochastic Dynamic Games and Related Topics, Kiel (Germany), March 22–24, 2023 (contributed talk)
- “The role of correlation in diffusion control ranking games” at German Probability and Statistics Days 2023, Essen (Germany), March 7-10, 2023 (contributed talk)
- “Diffusion control games” at L² Workshop in Probability and Statistics at University of Luxembourg, September 15-16, 2022 (invited talk)
- “Large ranking games with diffusion control”, Workshop on Many Player Games And Applications, Berlin (Germany), August 29-31, 2022 (invited talk)
- “Large ranking games with diffusion control”, 15th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Vienna (Austria), July 12 - 15, 2022 (contributed talk)
- “Large ranking games”, 9th International Colloquium on BSDEs and Mean Field Systems, Annecy (France), June 27 - July 1, 2022 (contributed talk)
- “Diffusion control games”, Workshop on Stochastic Analysis: Theory, Applications and Numerics, Gießen (Germany), March 23 - 25, 2022 (invited talk)
- “An introduction to stochastic games”, PhD seminar of the Frege Kolleg, University of Jena (Germany), April 2022
- “Large ranking games with diffusion control”, German Probability and Statistic Days 2021, Mannheim (Germany), September 27 - October 1, 2021 (contributed talk, online)
- “Large ranking games with diffusion control, 14th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics, Edinburgh, August 30 - September 3, 2021 (contributed talk, online)
- “The Maximum Principle and Controlled Diffusion”, PhD seminar of the Frege Kolleg, University of Jena (Germany), November 2020 (online)
Teaching
Currently, I am not teaching any classes. See below for a list of courses I taught in the past.
Courses of past semesters:
SoSe 2022: Stochastic Control & Dynamic Games (Lecture with Prof. Ankirchner)
SoSe 2020: Methods of Insurance and Financial Mathematics (exercise class)
WiSe 2019/20: Mathematics for Pharmacy students (exercise class)
SoSe 2019: Introduction into Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics (exercise class)
WiSe 2018/19: Elementary Probability Theory and Statistics (exercise class)
SoSe 2018: Analysis 2 (tutorial)
WiSe 2017/18: Analysis 3 (exercise class)
SoSe 2017: Analysis 2 (exercise class)
WiSe 2016/17: Analysis 1 (exercise class)