By UCL week

Week 4 (21 Sept - 27 Sept): First email
Week 5 (28 Sept - 4 Oct):
Week 6 (5 Oct - 11 Oct): Introductions: Introduction to R and Law of Large Numbers and R
Week 7 (12 Oct - 18 Oct): Random variables: theory and practice, Coupling and total variational distance, Review of Markov chains
Week 8 (19 Oct - 25 Oct): Making Markov chains converge
Week 9 (26 Oct - 1 Nov): Coupling from the past, Poisson processes
Week 10 (2 Nov - 8 Nov): Continuous-time Markov chains; ICA 1 assigned
Week 11 (9 Nov - 15 Nov): Reading break
Week 12 (16 Nov - 22 Nov): Introduction to renewal theory; ICA 1 due
Week 13 (23 Nov - 29 Nov): Introduction to queuing theory
Week 14 (30 Nov - 6 Dec):
- Introduction to queuing theory II
- Return of the law of large numbers
- ICA 2 (projects chosen and assigned)
Week 15 (7 Dec - 13 Dec):
- Introduction to the probabilistic method and random graphs
- ICA 3 assigned
week 16 (14 Dec - 20 Dec):
- ICA 1 solutions
- Introduction to Python (Please continue to do all your submitted work in R)
- Shinny apps
week 23: (2021): ICA 3 due; 3 February 2021, 13:00 London time
week 27: (2021): ICA 2 due; 3 March 2021, 13:00 London time

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