Course Schedule
APMA 2812B - Fall 2019


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
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