Course Schedule
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
2/12 8.30-10.30 3/12 10.30-12.30 5/12 8.30-10.30
10/12 10.30-12.30 11/12 10:30-12:30 12/12 8.30-10.30
16/12 8.30-10.30 17/12 10.30-12.30 18/12 10:30-12:30
An overview of the course
1. Preliminary
- Random variable
--- probability space, probability distribution, probability density function, expectation, independence
--- important examples: exponential distribution, Gaussian distribution, Gaussian vectors
- Conditional expectation
--- definition, basic properties
--- computation of conditional expectation
- Convergence
--- strong and weak convergence
--- vague topology, Prokhorov’s theorem
- Basic measure theory*
--- absolutely continuity, Radon–Nikod´ym theorem*
--- Lebesgue’s decomposition theorem*
2. Limit theorems
- law of large numbers
--- topology on infinite product space, i.i.d. sequence
--- strong law for i.i.d. sequence
- central limit theorem (i.i.d. case)
- large deviations (i.i.d. case)
--- moment-generating function, Legendre transformation
3. Stochastic process
- Basic concepts
--- sample paths, distribution, finite dimensional distribution
- Poisson process
--- Poisson distribution, distribution of Poisson process
--- semigroup, infinitesimal generator
--- limit theorems, homogenization
- Brownian motion
--- construction of Brownian motion, Donsker’s theorem, Wiener measure
--- Brownian sample paths*
--- a first look at (Ito) stochastic integral*
4. Poisson point process*
- introduction to point process*
--- definition of Poisson process as a point process*
- Poisson point process on Rd*
--- definition, law of large numbers, central limit theorem*
A draft of lecture notes can be found here.