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Professor Dr. Malkhaz Shashiashvili

Topic 1. Martingale, Stopping times and Filtrations
1.1 Stochastic Processes and - Fields
1.2 Stopping times
1.3 Continuous-times Martingales
1.4 The Doob-Mayer Decomposition
1.5 Continuous, Square-Integrable Martingales

Topic 2. Brownian Motion
2.1 The construction of Brownian Motion
2.2 The Space , Weak Convergence and Wiener Measure
2.3 The Markov Property
2.4 The Strong Markov Property and the reflection Principal
2.5 Brownian Filtration
2.6 The Brownian Sample Paths

Topic 3. Stochastic Integration
3.1 Construction of the Stochastic Integral
3.2 The Change-of-Variable Formula (The Ito rule)
3.3 Representations of Continuous Martingales in term of Brownian Motion
3.4 The Girsanov Theorem

Topic 4. Brownian Motion and Partial Differentoial Equations
4.1 Harmonic Functions and the Dirichlet Problem
4.2 The one Dimensional Heat equation
4.3 The Formulas of Feynman and Kac

Topic 5. Stochastic Differential Equations
5.1 Strong Solutions
5.2 Weak Solutions
5.3 Gauss-Markov Processes
5.4 The General, one-dimensional linear equation
5.5 Connections with Partial Differential Equations: The Dirichlet problem. The Cauchy problem and a Feynman-Kac representation.

References
1. I. Karatzas, St. Shreve, Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, Springer-Verlag, 1998.
2. Ph. Protter, Stochastic Integration and Differential Equations, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
3. A. N. Shiryaev, Probability, Springer, 1995.