MA414      Half Unit
Stochastic Analysis

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Arne Lokka

Availability

This course is available on the MSc in Applicable Mathematics and MSc in Financial Mathematics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

Pre-requisites

ST409 or MA411.

Course content

This course is concerned with a rigorous introduction to the area of stochastic analysis with emphasis on Itô calculus. The course begins necessary preliminaries, followed by a construction of the standard Brownian motion and a study of its properties. Subsequently, Lévy’s characterisation of Brownian motion, martingale representation theorems and Girsanov’s theorem are established. The course then expands on a study of stochastic differential equations.

Teaching

20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.

Indicative reading

Full lecture notes will be provided. The following may prove useful: I Karatzas and S E Shreve, Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Springer; B Øksendal, Stochastic Differential Equations: An Introduction with Applications, Springer; D Revuz and M Yor, Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion, Springer; L C G Rogers and D Williams, Diffusions, Markov Processes, and Martingales, Cambridge.

Assessment

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.

Key facts

Department: Mathematics

Total students 2016/17: 9

Average class size 2016/17: 11

Controlled access 2016/17: No

Value: Half Unit

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Personal development skills

  • Self-management
  • Problem solving
  • Application of information skills
  • Communication
  • Application of numeracy skills
  • Specialist skills