Probability - Ma140a - Fall 2020


Instructor. Omer Tamuz, Baxter 213. Office hours are Mondays at 2pm.

Teaching assistant: Kushal Banerjee. Office hours are Wednesdays at 8pm.

Course Piazza page: https://piazza.com/class/kglh9np0rqe4lj.

Lectures. Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, 1 to 2, on zoom. The link is available on canvas.

Syllabus. Basics of measure theory, laws of large numbers, central limit theorems, martingales, random walks, percolation, branching processes, ergodic theory.

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.

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. And don't plagiarize!

Problem sets are due every Friday at noon, on gradescope, which is accesible through canvas.