Reading List

A full set of typed notes will be supplied.

Important references:

1. O. Kallenberg. Foundations of Modern Probability. Second Edition, Springer 2002. This comprehensive text covers essentially the entire course, and much more, but should be supplemented with other references in order to develop experience of more examples.
2. L.C.G Rogers & D. Williams. Diffusions, Markov Processes and Martingales; Volume 1, Foundations and Volume 2, Itô calculus. Cambridge University Press, 1987 and 1994. These two volumes have a very different style to Kallenberg and complement it nicely. Again they cover much more material than this course.

1. S.N. Ethier & T.G. Kurtz. Markov Processes: characterization and convergence. Wiley 1986. It is not recommended to try to sit down and read this book cover to cover, but it is a treasure trove of powerful theory and elegant examples.
2. S. Karlin & H.M. Taylor. A second course in stochastic processes. Academic Press 1981. This classic text does not cover the material on semigroups and martingale problems that we shall develop, but it is a very accessible source of examples of diffusions and things one might calculate for them.

A fuller list of references will be included in the typed notes.