STOCHASTIC CALCULUS II (Spring Semester 2008-2009)

Link to part I of the course
 

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* Here are the lecture notes.


Teaching Staff

Teacher E-mail Voice Office Office Hours
Olivier Lévêque, I&C-LTHI olivier.leveque#epfl.ch 021 693 81 12 INR 132 Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Schedule

Type Day Hour Room
Lectures Thursday 9:15 AM - 11:00 AM CE 1 100
Exercise Sessions Thursday 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CE 1 100
 

Detailed Program

Date Sujet
Thursday, February 19 1. Stochastic integral with respect to a martingale
Thursday, February 26 2. Semi-martingales, generalized Ito-Doeblin's formula, integration by parts formula
Thursday, March 5 3. Stochastic differential equations, strong and weak solutions
Thursday, March 12 4. Exponential martingales, Girsanov's theorem
Thursday, March 19 5. Black-Scholes formula (I) and option pricing
Thursday, March 26 6. Link between PDE's and SDE's
Thursday, April 2 7. Black-Scholes formula (II) and option hedging
Thursday, April 9 No class (Easter break)
Thursday, April 16 No class (Easter break)
Thursday, April 23 8. Multi-dimensional processes, diffusions
Thursday, April 30 9. Degenerate diffusions, existence and uniqueness of a martingale measure
Thursday, May 7 10. Local martingales
Thursday, May 14 11. Novikov's condition, Girsanov's theorem, Levy's theorem
Thursday, May 21 No class (Ascension)
Thursday, May 28
8:15 AM
12. Change of time, local time
 

Homeworks (restricted access to the "unil.ch" and "epfl.ch" domains for the solutions)

Problem sets Date Due Solutions
Homework 1 February 19 February 26 Solutions 1
Homework 2 February 26 March 5 Solutions 2
Homework 3 March 5 March 12 Solutions 3
Homework 4 March 12 March 19 Solutions 4
Homework 5 March 19 March 26 Solutions 5
Homework 6 March 26 April 2 Solutions 6
Homework 7 April 2 April 23 Solutions 7
Homework 8 April 23 April 30 Solutions 8
Homework 9 April 30 May 7 Solutions 9
Homework 10 May 7 Monday, May 18 Solutions 10
Homework 11 May 14 Monday, May 25 Solutions 11
Quiz May 28 no Answers sessions
on Monday, June 8
at 2:00 PM, in room INR 113
Exam Wednesday, June 17
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
room INM 200
June 17, 6:00 PM (!) Solutions
 
Last updated: May 25, 2009