ADVANCED PROBABILITY

Part 3 course, Michaelmas Term 1997

MWF 12 noon (except when not), beginning 10th October

This course will be a rigorous introduction to modern probability theory and its applications. In order to get the flavour of some interesting probabilistic phenomena, try these links:

• David Griffeath's primordial soup kitchen
• Rick Durrett's ramblings
• David Aldous's raisons d'etre
• Phil Pollett's web

• percolation and disordered systems, a set of my lecture notes (careful, it is rather long, and is also available in reduced form for economy of paper)
• percolation, a partly historical review for a `millenium' volume,
• stochastic pin-ball, try your luck.

The blurb for the course is available here. Also the problem sheets:

• Sheet 1, solutions due on 3rd November. Comments on the answers are available.
• Sheet 2, solutions due on 14th November. Comments on the answers are available.
• Sheet 3, solutions due on 28th November. Comments on the answers are available.

No meeting on Monday 24th November at 2pm, but don't forget the lecture that day at 12 noon. There will be a problems class on Monday 1st December at 2pm.

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