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Numerical Methods in Stochastic Processes

Course: Numerical Methods in Stochastic Processes

Code: 3ФЕИТ08021

ECTS points: 6 ЕКТС

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sonja Gegovska - Zajkova

Course Goals (acquired competencies): After completing this course, student should be able to analyze the convergence and the stability properties of stochastic numerical methods, to implement numerical methods for solving stochastic differential equations, to identify and understand the mathematical modeling of stochastic processes,  and  choose an appropriate numerical method to solve stochastic differential equations.

Course Syllabus: Strong numerical approximations for stochastic differential equations:  Galerkin approximations, Euler–Maruyama and Milstein approximations. Noise approximations. Week approximation. Mild-Ito formula.  Stochastic simulations and multi-level Monte-Carlo methods.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Raúl Toral, Pere Colet

Stochastic Numerical Methods: An Introduction for Students and Scientists

John Wiley & Sons-VCH

2014

2

P.E. Kloeden and E. Platen

Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations

Springer Verlag

1999

3

G.N. Milstein, M.V. Tretyakov

Stochastic Numerics for Mathematical Physics

Springer

2004