MA8109 Stochastic processes and differential equations
Fall 2019
Welcome to MA8109 !
This PhD course is given every second year, and usually 4th and 5th year (Master) students take it along with PhD students.
What is this course about?
- Differential equations with noisy/uncertain coefficients (stochastic differential equations), and their solutions, continuous time stochastic processes: We give a mathematical background, the main results, and some applications (more details in 'General Information' in the left menu).
Of the multitude of applications in science, engineering and other disciplines, the most famous one is perhaps the Black-Scholes model for option pricing in finance.
Who can take this course?
- Interested students at Master or PhD level.
- The level should be suitable for good 4th year students in the industrial mathematics program.
- It can be taken as a regular course (MA8109) or a 'fordypningsemne' (TMA4505).
| Office hours | Exam Wed 11.12.2019 | Exam Wed 18.12.2019 | ||||||
| Monday Dec 9 | 11:15-12:00 | room 1148, SB2 | 13:00-13:45 | room 1148, SB2 | Francois | 8:30-9:15 | room 1148, SB2 | Camilla |
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| Tuesday Dec 10 | 11:15-12:00 | room 1148, SB2 | 13:50-14:35 | room 1148, SB2 | Oscar | 9:20-10:05 | room 1148, SB2 | Anders |
| Monday Dec 16 | 11:15-12:00 | room 1148, SB2 | 14:40-15:25 | room 1148, SB2 | Oliver | 10:10-10:55 | room 1148, SB2 | Philip |
| Monday Dec 17 | 11:15-12:00 | room 1148, SB2 | 15:30-16:15 | room 1148, SB2 | Adrian | 11:00-11:45 | room 1148, SB2 | Erik |
| 13:15-14:00 | room 1148, SB2 | Ulf Oskar | ||||||
| 14:05-14:50 | room 1148, SB2 | Tor | ||||||
| 14:55-15:40 | room 1148, SB2 | Morten | ||||||
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| 22.11. | Exam times fixed | See the table above. If there is any mistake, send me an email. |
| Project | Do not forget the deadlines - November 29 for the report! See below and in the left menu for more info. |
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| Office hours | See table above. |
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| Final curriculum | See 'General information' in the left menu. |
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| Solutions | To homework 4 and 5 now available, see the left menu. |
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| What next? | See 'General information' in the left menu for some possible directions of further study. |
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| 15.11. | Exam dates | We have now fixed the two dates for the exam: December 11 (Wednesday) and December 18 (Wednesday) |
| Sign up | Send me an email with the date you want and possible time constraints/wishes Based on this feedback I will give you a time slot. See the table above for a tentative schedule (changes are still possible) Deadline: Friday 22.11. 13:00 |
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| Reference group meeting | We will do the last meeting in the break of the lectures on Thursday November 21. Do you have feedback on course? What is good/what can be improved? |
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| 08.11. | Tentative oral exam dates | We discussed in class, Friday November 8: December 11 (Wednesday) and December 18 (Wednesday) Not good for you? Send me an email with your wishes and constraints. Let me know before next Friday (15.11.), we aim to finalize dates then. |
| Homework | Homework set 5 is now available. You can do the first 3 problems from Friday onwards. | |
| Read yourselves: | Note on Linear SDEs and Physical Brownian Motion | |
| 18.10. | Notes on existence and uniqueness | The proofs can be found in my handwritten notes from class: Strong solution of SDEs. Uniqueness and Existence |
| 17.10. | Reference group | Meeting in the break, Friday October 18. |
| Project deadlines | October 18: email me your choice of project. November 29: email me the written report. See "The project" in the left menu for more info. |
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| Next 2 weeks | You should work on the course project. No lectures, office hours instead in my office room 1148 SB2 (note the times): Wednesday 14:15-15:00. Thursday 16:15-17:00. Friday 14:15-15:30. |
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| Existence and uniqueness of SDEs | We use the proofs as presented in Schilling. My handwritten notes will be posted later. (There seems to be a mistake in the proof of existence in the 6th edition of Øksendal. The proof in previous editions is correct but longer) |
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| Read yourselves | Øksendal chp. 5.3 (discussion on weak solutions and uniqueness) | |
| Problem set 3 and 4 | Available under 'Homework' in the left menu. | |
| 10.10. | Lectures | Next week: We finish the discussion on strong solutions of SDEs. Week 43 and 44: Project work, no lectures. Office hours instead, in my office room 1148 SB2. |
| Project | The project counts for 20% of the final grade. You may study any relevant topic of you own choosing, see 'The Project' in the left menu for suggestions and more information. |
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| 03.10. | Numerics for SDEs | There will be two weeks on numerical approximation on SDEs in the course: MA8404 Numerical solution of time dependent differential equations Week 44 and 45, but check the webpage for the latest update (click above link). Students from our course are welcome to attend these two weeks. |
| Read yourselves | About the Stratonovich integral in chapter 3.3 in Øksendal. | |
| Homework | After this weeks lectures you will be able to do problem 1-3 in Homework 3. Problem set 3 is available in the left menu. |
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| 24.09. | Lectures | Thursdays 16-18 and Fridays 14-16. Last Friday we checked again and found that Wednesdays are no longer free. |
| 12.09. | Office hours | Wednesday 14:15-15:00, room 1148 SB2 (my office) |
| Homework | Problem set 2 and Solutions 1 available, see 'Homework' in the left menu. | |
| Reference group | The whole class will be the reference group. First meeting: During break Friday September 20. |
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| 30.08. | Problem set 1 | Available under 'Homework' in the left menu. |
| 19.08. | First Lecture | Friday 23.08. 14:15-16:00, Room 734 SB2 |
| General info and book | See the left menu. | |
| 03.06. | Info meeting | Monday August 19th, 14:15-15:00, at room 734 SB2. - Info about the course. - Decide on times for the lectures. - Set up email list for course. Cannot attend, but want to take the course? - Send me an email where you include the times you are not free (have other lectures). |
| Master student? | You can take the course either as MA8109 or TMA4505 (fordypningsemne). Grades: pass/fail in MA8109, A-F in TMA4505. 4th year MTFYMA students then take a regular course instead of TMA4505 in the 5th year. |
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