Week 4 (20 Sept - 26 Sept): First email
Week 5 (27 Sept - 3 Oct):
Week 6 (4 Oct - 10 Oct): Introductions: R, Python, Law of large numbers.
Week 7 (11 Oct - 17 Oct): Random variables: theory and practice, Coupling and total variational distance, Review of Markov chains
Week 8 (18 Oct - 24 Oct): Convergence of Markov chains, Coupling from the past
Week 9 (25 Oct - 31 Oct): Poisson processes
Week 10 (1 Nov - 7 Nov): Continuous-time Markov chains; ICA1 assigned
Week 11 (8 Nov - 14 Nov): Reading break
Week 12 (15 Nov - 21 Nov): Introduction to renewal theory 1; ICA1 due
Week 13 (22 Nov - 28 Nov): Introduction to renewal theory 2+3
Week 14 (29 Nov - 5 Dec): Introduction to queues
Week 15 (6 Dec - 12 Dec): Introduction to queues 2; ICA2 assigned
week 16 (13 Dec - 19 Dec): Review and wrap-up. ICA3 assigned.
week 24: (7 Feb - 13 Feb; 2022): ICA3 due
week 27: (28 Feb 6 Mar; 2027): ICA2 due
Version: 12 December 2021