Below is a course schedule. It contains an outline of course topics, reading assignments, and important due dates. Most readings will be assigned from the course notes.
Date | Material | Info/Reading |
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Introduction | ||
Week 1: Fri 9/6 | Introduction, motivating examples, preliminaries | § 1, 2 |
Gaussian measure theory | ||
Week 2: Fri 9/13 | Gaussian measures in separable Banach spaces, Fernique theorem, Cameron-Martin theorem | § 3.1 , 3.2, 3.3 |
Week 3: Fri 9/20 | Probability measures in Hilbert spaces, Trace-class operators, Feldman-Hajek theorem, Gaussian processes and regularity | § 3.4 , 3.5 |
The stochastic integral | ||
Week 4: Fri 9/27 | Wiener processes in Hilbert spaces, cylindrical Wiener process, progressive measurability | § 3.6 - 4.4 |
Week 5: Fri 10/4 | The stochastic integral and properties | Homework 1 Due § 4.5 , 4.6 |
Week 6: Fri 10/11 | Ito's formula and stochastic Fubini | § 4.7, 4.8 |
Introduction to semi-group theory | ||
Week 7: Fri 10/18 | $C_0$ semi-groups, generators, Hille-Yosida theorem, spectral theory | § 5.1 - 5.3 |
Week 8: Fri 10/25 | Analytic semi-groups, regularity and interpolation spaces | § 5.4 - 5.6 |
Linear SPDE with additive noise | § 6.1 - | |
Week 9: Fri 11/1 | Mild solutions, stochastic convolution, regularity | |
Semi-linear SPDE with additive noise | ||
Week 10: Fri 11/8 | Cancelled | |
Week 11: Fri 11/15 | Lipschitz non-linearities, global well-posedness, locally Lipschitz non-linearities, non-explosion criteria | |
Long-time behavior | ||
Week 12: Fri 11/22 | Markov semi-groups, Krylov-Bogoliubov theorem, uniqueness and strong Feller for Linear SPDE | |
Fri 10/29 | Thanksgiving break (Black Friday) - No Class | |
Week 13: Fri 12/6 | Geometric ergodicity, Lyapunov functions, Harris theorem, application to linear SPDE | Homework 3 Due |