Tutorial Lecture by Prof. Michael Mascagni (Supported by Research and Development Center for Data Assimilation, ISM)
- Date&Time
- December 19, 2016
10:00-12:00, 13:30-17:00 (with short intermissions)
- Place
- Seminar room 2 @ The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
- Speaker
- Prof. Michael Mascagni
(Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, USA)
- Title
- An Introduction to Brownian Motion, Wiener Measure, and Partial Differential Equations
- Abstract
- This is a long introduction to how stochastic processes and partial differential equations are related. We begin with an introduction to Brownian motion, which is a Markoffian stochastic process. We give some of it's elementary properties and present the notion of expectation with respect to Brownian motion, and introduce Wiener measure. We then compute some Wiener integrals, and derive an explicit representation of Brownian motion. We then introduce the Feynman-Kac formulas for the probabilistic representation of partial differential equations. Time permitting, we explore some asymptotic results in action- and entropy-asymptotics. We also introduce the idea of probabilistic potential theory.
Outline of the Lecture
- Introduction to Brownian Motion as a Measure
- Definitions
- Donsker's Invariance Principal
- Properties of Brownian Motion
- The Feynman-Kac Formula
- Explicit Representation of Brownian Motion
- The Karhunen-Loève Expansion
- Explicit Computation of Wiener Integrals
- The Schrödinger Equation
- Proof of the Arcsin Law
- Advanced Topics
- Action Asymptotics
- Brownian Scaling
- Local Time
- Donsker-Varadhan Asymptotics
- Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?
- Probabilistic Potential Theory