Bálint Tóth:

Stochastic Processes (M6006)

Autumn 2012



GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION

 

TIMETABLE:

LECTURES:

Mon: 10:00-10:50, Maths SM4
Mon: 11:00-11:50, Maths SM4
Thu: 14:00-14:50, Maths SM3

TUTORIAL:

Thu: 15:00-15:50, Maths SM4

OFFICE HOUR:

Mon: 14:00-14:50, Maths 3.12

 

LECTURE NOTES (hand written):

1. Brownian motion 1: Motivation, phenomenological description, basics

2. Brownian motion 2: Construction

3. Brownian motion 3: Distributional and path-wise properties

4. Filtrations, stopping times, martingales, ...

5. The Ito integral

6. Ito’s formula

7. Stochastic differential equations 1: strong solution, existence and uniqueness

8. Stochastic differential equations 2: infinitesimal generator, Dynkin’s formula, Kolmogorov’s backward equation, part 1, part 2

more to come

Feng Yu's lecture notes from earlier years

PROBLEM SETS, HOME WORK ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Brownian motion # # # # # solutions

2. Martingales # # # # # solutions

3. Ito integral # # # # # solutions

4. Ito’s formula # # # # # solutions

5. Stochastic differential equations # # # # # solutions

more to come