Introduction to the geometry of stochastic
differential equations and diffusion semigroups


SNSB, Bucharest, Romania


This lecture was intended to be given at the SNSB, Bucharest, during the third week of June 2009.


Lecture Notes

Some remarks:

This course is an introduction to the theory of stochastic differential equations and diffusion semigroups. Some parts of this course were already taught at the University of Purdue in Spring 2009.

The heart of this course consists of Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4

The Chapter 1 is assumed to be known from the student and will not be covered in class. It is here as a reminder for the student.

Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 are an introduction to more advanced topics.


Exercises on Chapter 2



Exercises on Chapter 3 and 4