The course offers an introduction to modern stochastic processes, including Brownian motion, continuous-time martingales, stochastic integration and Ito's calculus, Markov processes, stochastic differential equations, point processes and their applications. The course will include some applications but will emphasise setting up a solid theoretical foundation for the subject.

The course will provide a sound basis for progression to other honours and post-graduate courses including mathematical finance, stochastic analysis and statistics, and actuarial sciences.

The course aims to round off the rigorous introduction to probabilistic reasoning initiated in STAT3004, as well as to substantially enhance students' depth of knowledge in the mathematical underpinning of stochastic process theory.