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Multiple scales are ubiquitous in a plurality of processes and phenomena and therefore attract considerable attention both in mathematical and natural science researach (see, e.g., CRC 1114 at FU Berlin). In this lecture we will concentrate on elliptic problems with an highly oscillatory or random behaviour due to corresponding coefficient functions. In particular, we will present new results on a class of variational multiscale methods based on subspace decomposition and adaptive multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods. If time permits, parabolic problems and random pdes will be also addressed.

Target audience:
Students in the Master Course Mathematics or BMS (Phase I)

Prerequisites:
Basic knowledge on theory and numerics of elliptic pdes as considered, e.g. in the lecture "Numerik von partiellen Differentialgleichungen" (Numerik III) at FU.

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