MA 21880 - Stochastic Calculus
Fall 2015



Basic Class Information

Time :  Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 2:30 to 3:20 PM (August 31 to September 11) and from 8:30 to 9:20 AM (September 14 onward).

Room : Wean Hall 7201 (8/31-9/11) and Wean Hall 8201 (9/14 --)

Syllabus



Exams

        FinalSolutions.        

        Practice Final Exam: 2014 FinalSolutions.         
 
        Midterm: Week of October 12-16. Solutions.


Homework Assignments

Assignemnt Seven (Recommended Problems). Recommend problems for the November 23, 30, December 2, 4, 7 and 9 lectures.

Assignment Six. Due on Monday, November 30 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the November 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16 and 18 lectures.

Assignment Five. Due on Friday, November 13 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the October 23, 26, 28, 30, November 2 and 4 lectures.

Assignment Four. Due on Friday, October 30 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the October 9, 12, 24, 16, 19 and 21 lectures.

Assignment Three. Due on Friday, October 16 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the September 23, 25, 28, 20 and October 2, 5 and 7 lectures.

Assignment Two. Due on Friday, October 2 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the September  11, 14, 16, 18 and 21 lectures.

Assignment One. Due on Friday, September 18 at the beginning of class (8:30 AM). Covers material from the August 31, September 2, 4 and 9 lectures.
Lecture Notes
Local Time for Brownian Motion: Lecture Notes. Lectures: Friday December 4, Monday December 7, Wednesday December 9.

Stochastic Differential Equations: Weak Solutions and Tanaka's Example:
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Monday November 30, Wednesday December 2, Friday December 4.

Stochastic Differential Equations: Strong Solutions and Explosions:
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Monday November 23.

Stochastic Differential Equations: Strong Solutions.
Lecture_Notes. Lectures: Wednesday November 18.

Girsanov's Theorem.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Wednesday November 11, Friday November 13, Monday November 16.

The Augmented Filtration, Strong Markov Processes and the Blumenthal 0-1 Law.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Friday November 6, Monday November 9, Wednesday November 11.

Strong Markov Processes.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Wednesday November 4, Friday November 6.

Properties of Brownian Motion and Markov Processes
. Lecture Notes. Lectures: Friday October 30, Monday November 2, Wednesday November 4.

Representation Results.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Wednesday October 19, Wednesday October 21, Monday October 26, Wednesday October 28, Friday October 30.

Levy's Characterization of Brownian Motion and the Martingale Moment Inequalities
. Lecture Notes. Lectures: Wednesday October 14, Friday October 16, Monday October 19.

Ito's Formula.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Friday October 9, Monday October 12, Wednesday October 14.

Construction of the Stochastic Integral.
Lecture_Notes. Lectures: Wednesday September 30, Friday October 2, Monday October 5, Wednesday October 7.

Brownian Motion.
Lecture Notes. Lectures: Wednesday September 23, Friday September 25, Monday September 28, Wednesday September 30.

Square Integrable Martingales, Local Martingales and Quadratic Variation
. Lecture Notes. Lectures: Friday September 18, Monday September 21, Wednesday September 23.

Doob-Meyer Decomposition
. Lecture Notes. Lectures: Monday September 14, Wednesday September 16.

Optional Sampling.
Lecture_Notes. Lectures: Friday, September 11, Monday September 14.

Continuous Time Martingales.
Lecture_Notes. Lectures: Friday, September 4, Wednesday, September 9, Friday September 11. Supplementary_Material: Chung book on discrete time Martingales.

Stochastic Processes, Filtrations and Stopping Times
. Lecture_Notes. Lectures: Monday, August 31, Wednesday September 2.