Computational Stochastics Group

Registration for oral examinations

Dear students,

these are the days for the oral examination offered by Prof. Dr.  Ritter:

  • 22. February 2024
  • 14. March 2024
  • 04. April 2024

Please see Mrs. Höffler, building 31, room 451 to schedule an appointment.

Fachpraktikum

We will offer a 'Fachpraktikum' on Gaussian RBF Kernels in SS 2024. See here for further infos.

General Information

A specialization in Computational Stochastics is based on a number of core courses, primarily from Analysis and Stochastics, which are outlined below. Prospective Bachelor students may also want to look at an elementary introduction (in German) to Computational Stochastics.

Bachelor

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Master

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Lectures offered in summer term 2024

The following lectures are offered by our working group in summer term 2024.

Fundamentals of Mathematics I

Instructor

Infos, Material

Dates

  • Tuesday, 10:00 - 11:30 (room 48-210)
  • Thursday, 10:00 - 11:30 (room 48-210)
  • Friday, 11:45 - 13:15 (room 48-210)

Reading Courses, Seminars and Proseminars

Proseminar "Quasi-Monte-Carlo-Methoden"

Instructor: Klaus Ritter

Dates to be announced

Lectures offered in winter term 2023/2024

The following lectures were offered by our working group in winter term 2023/2024.

High-Dimensional Integration

Contents

  • discrepancy of point sets and quasi-Monte Carlo methods
  • lattice rules
  • sparse grids and Smolyak formulas
  • anisotropic Korobov and Sobolev spaces on finite- and infinite-dimensional domains
  • lower error bounds and complexity of continuous problems
  • randomization
  • the probabilistic method

Instructor

Ritter

Material

Dates

Lectures (room 31-302)

Tuesday, 11:45 - 13:15

Thursday 10:00 - 11:30

Probability Theory

Contents

  • Types of convergence
  • Characteristic functions
  • Markov kernels
  • Sums of independent random variables
  • Strong laws of large numbers, variants of the central limit theorem
  • Conditional expectation
  • Martingales in discrete time
  • Brownian motion

Instructor

Ritter, Rüßmann

Dates

Lectures:

Tuesday,  15:30 - 17:00, Room 48-208

Thursday,     15:30 - 17:00, Room 48-208

Exercises:

Wednesday, 11:45h - 13:15, Room 36-265

Friday, 10:00h - 11:30, Room 41-243

 

Lectures offered in summer term 2023

The following lectures were offered by our working group in summer term 2023.

Funktionalanalysis

Contents

Satz von Hahn-Banach und Anwendungen; Baire'scher Kategorien Satz und Anwendungen (Prinzip der gleichmäßigen Beschränktheit,  Satz von Banach-Steinhaus, Satz von der offenen Abbildung, Satz von der inversen Abbildung, Satz vom abgeschlossenen Graphen); schwache Konvergenz (Satz von Banach-Alaoglu, reflexive Banach-Räume, Lemma von Mazur und Anwendungen), Projektionen (Satz vom abgeschlossenen Komplement); beschränkte Operatoren (adjungierte Operatoren, Spektrum, Resolvente, normale Operatoren); kompakte Operatoren (Fredholm-Operatoren, Fredholm-Alternative und Anwendungen, Spektralsatz (Riesz-Schauder) und Anwendungen auf normale Operatoren).

Instructor

Ritter, Rüßmann

Infos, Material

Dates

Lectures:

Wednesday,  11:45 - 13:15, Room 48-210

Friday,     10:00 - 11:30, Room 48-208

Exercises:

Friday, 11:45h - 13:15, Room 48-538

 

Monte Carlo Algorithms

Contents

Monte Carlo algorithms are algorithms that use random numbers. The lecture provides an introduction to this important basic technique from mathematics and computer science. We study, in particular, 

  • direct simulation
  • simulation of distributions and stochastic processes
  • variance reduction
  • high-dimensional integration

as well as applications from physics, finance, and actuarial mathematics.

Instructor

Ritter

Infos, Material

Müller-Gronbach, Novak, Ritter: Monte Carlo-Algorithmen

Open Olat

KIS: Lectures, exercises

Dates

Lectures are being held in room 31-302

Tuesdays, 15:30 - 17:00

Thursdays, 15:30 - 17:00

Lectures are being held in room 31-302

Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:30

Lectures offered in winter term 2022/2023

The following lectures are offered by our working group in winter term 2022/2023.

Stochastic Differential Equations

Contents

  • Brownian motion
  • Continuous-time martingales
  • Stochastic integration
  • Strong and weak solutions of SDEs
  • Stochastic representation of solutions of PDEs
  • Ito-Taylor schemes
  • Stochastic multi-level algorithms

Team

Ritter, Loran

Infos, Material

Dates

Monday,  13:45 - 15:15

Tuesday, 13:45 - 15:15

Thursday, 15:30 - 17:00

Room 31-302

Stochastische Methoden

Contents

Die Vorlesung gibt eine Einführung in die Stochastik (Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Simulation, Statistik), ohne Kenntnisse der Maß- und Integrationstheorie vorauszusetzen.

Team

Ritter, Diehl, Oetjen

Infos, Material

Dates

Lectures:

Tuesday,  11:45 - 13:15

Friday,     11:45 - 13:15

Room 48-208

Exercises:

Wednesday, 13:45h - 15:15, Room 48-210

Thursday, 10:00h - 11:30, Room 48-210

Friday, 08:15h - 09:45, Room 48-538

Friday, 10:00h - 11:30, Room 46-267

Reading Courses, Seminars and Proseminars

Seminar "Interpolation of Hilbert Spaces"

Instructor: Ritter

Dates to be announced

Lectures offered in summer term 2022

The following lectures were offered by our working group in summer term 2022.

Measure and Integration Theory

Contents

  • systems of sets and measurable mappings
  • Caratheodory's Theorem
  • the k-dimensional Lebesgue measure
  • construction and properties of integral w.r.t. a measure
  • L^p-spaces
  • product spaces

Instructor

Dates

Lectures are being held in room 48-208

Thursday 08:00 - 09:30

Exercises are being held every two weeks in room

48-538, Thursday 12:00 - 13:30

44-465, Friday 08:00 - 09:30

48-538, Friday 14:00-15:30

Monte Carlo Algorithms

Contents

Monte Carlo algorithms are algorithms that use random numbers. The lecture provides an introduction to this important basic technique from mathematics and computer science. We study, in particular, 

  • direct simulation
  • simulation of distributions and stochastic processes
  • variance reduction
  • high-dimensional integration

as well as applications from physics, finance, and actuarial mathematics.

Instructor

Infos, Materials

Müller-Gronbach, Novak, Ritter: Monte Carlo-Algorithmen

Open Olat

KIS: Lectures, exercises

Dates

Lectures are being held in room 31-302

Tuesdays, 16:00 - 17:30

Thursdays, 16:00 - 17:30

Time and room for the exercises will be announced.

 

Lectures offered in winter term 2021/2022

The following lectures are offered by our working group in winter term 2021/2022.

High-Dimensional Integration

Contents

  • discrepancy of point sets and quasi-Monte Carlo methods
  • lattice rules
  • sparse grids and Smolyak formulas
  • anisotropic Korobov and Sobolev spaces on finite- and infinite-dimensional domains
  • lower error bounds and complexity of continuous problems
  • randomization
  • the probabilistic method

Instructor

Material

Dates

Lectures (room 31-302)

Monday, 14:00 - 15:30

Thursday 10:00 - 11:30

 

Probability Theory

Contents

  • Types of convergence
  • Characteristic functions
  • Markov kernels
  • Sums of independent random variables
  • Strong laws of large numbers, variants of the central limit theorem
  • Conditional expectation
  • Martingales in discrete time
  • Brownian motion

Instructor

Lectures offered in winter term 2020/2021

The following lectures were offered during winter term 2020/2021 by our working group:

Introduction to Functional Analysis (in German)

Contents

  • Banach spaces: examples, bounded linear operators, compactness
  • Hilbert spaces: bounded linear operators, Lax-Milgram theorem, spectral theory

Infos, Material

Stochastic Differential Equations

Contents

  • Brownian motion
  • Continuous-time martingales
  • Stochastic integration
  • Strong and weak solutions of SDEs
  • Stochastic representation of solutions of PDEs
  • Ito-Taylor schemes
  • Stochastic multi-level algorithms

Infos, Material

Lectures offered in summer term 2020

The following lectures were offered during summer term 2020 by our working group:

Fundamentals of Mathematics II

Instructor

Infos, Material

Dates

Lectures:

  • (room 52-207, 11:45 - 13:15) tuesdays
  • (room 24-102, 11:45 - 13:15) thursdays
  • (room 46-215, 10:00 - 11:30)
    fridays

 

Monte-Carlo-Algorithmen

Dates

Tuesday,  15:30 - 17:05

Thursday, 15:30 - 17:00

Room 31-302

 

 

Lectures offered in winter term 2019/20

The following lectures were offered during winter term 2019 /20 by our working group:

Fundamentals of Mathematics I

Instructor

Infos, Material

Dates

Lectures:

  • (room 46-210, 10:00 - 11:30) tuesdays
  • (room 46-220, 10:00 - 11:30) thursdays
  • (room 46-210, 10:00 - 11:30) fridays

 

High-dimensional Integration (Seminar)

Contents

We study the following two papers:

Mendelson, Pajor: On singular values of matrices with independent rows (2006)

Krieg, Ullrich: On L_2-approximation in Hilbert spaces using function values (2019)

Instructor

Klaus Ritter

Date

Tuesday, 13:45 - 15:15

Room 31-302

 

Lectures offered in summer term

The following lectures were offered during summer term 2019 by our working group:

High-Dimensional Integration

Contents

Algorithms and complexities of high- and infinite-dimensional integration problems. We study, in particular,

  • discrepancy of point sets and quasi-Monte Carlo methods,
  • randomization
  • the curse of dimensionality,
  • lower bounds and complexity of continuous problems.

Instructor

Infos, Material

Date

Lectures (room 31-302, 10:00 - 11:30) on thursdays

Exercises (room 31-215, 17:00 - 18:30) on tuesdays, bi-weekly
(first meeting April 30th, second meeting May 14th)

 The exercise class on July 9th will be shifted to July 16th.

For further information see: KIS

 

Monte Carlo Algorithms

Contents

Monte Carlo algorithms are algorithms that use random numbers. The lecture provides an introduction to this important basic technique from mathematics and computer science. We study, in particular, 

  • direct simulation
  • simulation of distributions and stochastic processes
  • variance reduction
  • high-dimensional integration

as well as applications from physics, finance, and actuarial mathematics.

Date

Lectures are being held on tuesdays and thursdays, 13:45 - 15:15 in room 31-302 IBZ.

First lecture starts Tuesday, 16.04.2019.

Exercises are being held on fridays, 13:45 - 15:15 in room 31-302 IBZ.

First exercise starts Friday, 26.04.2019.

For further information see KIS

 

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