Ma 140b - Probability: Random Walks, Spring 2022
Instructor. Omer
Tamuz, Baxter 213. Office hours are Mondays at 2:05pm.
Teaching
assistant: Jeck
Lim. Office hours are Wednesdays at 3pm-4pm, at Linde 187.
Lectures. Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, 1 to 2, Hameetman
Lecture Hall in Cahill.
Lecture notes.
Complete lecture
notes are available for this course. Note that this is not a
textbook, but the actual notes used to give the lectures. Also,
these are a work in progress.
Homework. Collaboration on homework is encouraged, but
individually written solutions are required. Also, please name all
collaborators and sources of information on each assignment; any
such named source may be used. You can also use any result stated
in the lecture notes. There will be, for each problem set, an
opportunity to resubmit, and the final grade will be determined by
the resubmitted sets. And
don't plagiarize!
Problem sets are to be submitted on gradescope, which is
accesible through canvas.
- Set 1. Due April 22nd.
- Set 2. Due May 6th. Please solve problems 7
through 12 from the Exercises section of the lecture
notes.
- Set 3. Due May 17th. Please solve problems 13,
14 and 15 from the Exercises section of the lecture
notes.
- Set 4. Due May 31st. Please solve problems 16
and 17 from the Exercises section of the lecture
notes.