Below is an overview of some of the interesting topics you will read about in JUQ's maiden volume: In a paper titled Mean Exit Times and the Multilevel Monte Carlo Method Desmond Higham, Xuerong Mao, Mikolaj Roj, Qingshuo Song, and George Yin propose a method to reduce the computational complexity of a simple and widely used algorithm, Euler/Monte Carlo simulation for a mean exit time.