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Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Statistics of inverse problems Research Group Lecture course Probability theory (SS 2026)
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Overview
Tutorial sessions
Examination and grading regulations
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2026/06/02 by jj
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Overview





Time and location of the lecture course:
Wednesday and Friday 11:15-12:45, MΛTHEMΛTIKON, INF 205, Hörsaal
Please register by using MaMpf and MÜSLI to receive timely announcements.

Contact:
Lecturer: Jan JOHANNES
Assistent: Bianca Neubert
Assistent: Henning Stein
Questions, please directly by email to <lehre-sip[at]math.uni-heidelberg.de>.

Language:
The lecture will be given in English if there is at least one non-German speaking participant.

Materials and announcements for the lecture:
All materials and current announcements related to the lecture can be found on MaMpf.

Registration for the tutorial sessions:
Please register for the tutorial sessions via MÜSLI an.
The tutorial sessions begin in the second week of lectures.
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Location and time of the exams:
To be announced.
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Lecture outline:
The outline of the lecture (chapter 1-4, sections §01-§16, 2026/06/02) is published before the lecture takes place. Before the lecture, an incomplete set of lecture notes will be made available to you on MaMpf. The complete lecture notes will be published on MaMpf shortly after the lecture. In the following table the individual documents are ordered by subjects.

      outline  notes
Chap 1 Measure and integration theory
§01 Measure theory le01, le02
§02 Integration theory le03, le04, le05
§03 Measures with density le06
§04 Measures on product spaces le07, le08
Chap 2 Conditional expectation
§05 Discretely or continuously distributed random variables
§06 Positive numerical random variables le09, le10
§07 Integrable random variables le11
§08 Bayesian approach le12
Chap 3 Stochastic processes and stopping times
§09 Stochastic processes
§10 Stopping times le13
Chap 4 Martingale theory Chap 4 (2026/06/02)
§11 Positive (super-)martingale le14
§12 Integrable (sub-,super-)martingale
§13 Regular integrable martingale
§14 Regular stopping time for an integrable martingale
§15 Regular integrable submartingale
§16 Doob decomposition and square variation
Chap 5 Markov chains
§17 Markov chains
§18 Recurrence und transience
§19 Invariant distribution

References:
The course does not require any additional literature, a prerequisite is the lecture course Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Statistik (Skript). However, if you would like supplementary reading, we can recommend the following books:
  • Bauer: Maß- und Integrationstheorie. (Walter de Gruyter, 2., überarbeitete Auflage, 1992).HEIDI
  • Chow and Teicher: Probability Theory: Independence, Interchangeability, Martingales (Springer, 3. ed., 2003). HEIDI
  • Chung: A Course in Probability Theory (Academic Press, 3. ed., 2006). HEIDI
  • Durrett: Probability: Theory and Examples (Cambridge University Press, 4. ed., 2010). HEIDI
  • Elstrodt: Maß- und Integrationstheorie. (Springer, 7., überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage, 2011.) HEIDI
  • Kallenberg: Foundations of Modern Probability (Springer, 3. ed., 2021). HEIDI
  • Karlin and Taylor: A first course in stochastic processes (Academic Press, 2. ed., 2004). HEIDI
  • Karlin and Taylor: A second course in stochastic processes (Academic Press, 14., 2005). HEIDI
  • Klenke: Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie (Springer, 4., überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage, 2020). HEIDI
  • Neveu: Martingales à temps discret (Masson, 1972). HEIDI