After successful completion of the course, students are able to formulate applied problems of optimal control theory, to parameterize the models, to solve them appropriately, and to interpret the obtained results.

Modelling of drug epidemics with systems of ordinary or partial differential equations; Parametrization of the models with data for the U.S. cocaine epidemic and various Australian drug problems; Solution of the corresponding optimal control models with appropriate maximum principles

Modeling, methods of optimal control theory and nonlinear dynamical systems including bifurcation theory

oral exam

Course relevant literature can be found under http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/research/EoC/ The course is taught with the help of PowerPoint presentations, for which handouts can be obtained.