Probability Theory (Spring 2010)

Manjunath Krishnapur

Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 - 12:30, in LH III



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Lec 1 07 Jan Sec. 1 Probability space History of probability up to Kolmogorov Sec 1 notes
Lec 2 12 Jan Sec. 2 Sierpinski-Dynkin π-λ theorem Sec. 3 Caratheodary's construction of Lebesgue measure Homework 1 (due 21/Jan) Sec 2-3
Lec 3 19 Jan Sec 3. [cont'd] Sec. 5 Random variables. Sec. 6 Borel probability measures on Rn Sec 4-6
Lec 4 21 Jan Sec. 7 Example of probability measures on the line. Sec. 8 A metric on probabilty measures on Rn Homework 2 (due 28/Jan)
Lec 5 28 Jan Sec. 9 Compact subsets of P(Rn) No homework this week! Sec 7-9
Lec 6 2 Feb Sec. 10 Absolute continuity and singularity Sec 10
Lec 7 4 Feb Sec. 11 Expectation Sec. 12 Limit theorems (MCT, Fatou's, DCT) Sec. 13 Lebesgue v/s Riemann Homework 3 (due 11/Feb) Sec 11-13
Lec 8 09 Feb Sec. 14 Lebesgue spaces Sec. 15 Inequalities Sec. 16 Change of variables, densities. Subhamay's solutions to Hwk 2 Sec 12-16
Lec 9 11 Feb Sec. 16-17 Change of variabes for densities Sec. 18 Mean, variance etc. Homework 4 (due 18/Feb) Sec 16-17
Lec 10 16 Feb Sec. 20 Product measures. Sec. 29 Independence
Lec 11 18 Feb Sec. 29 Independence Sec 28-29
Lec 12 02 Mar Sec. 29 [cont'd] Independence Sec. 30 Borel Cantelli, 1st and 2nd moment methods ClassTest 1 Some probability estimates
Lec 13 04 Mar Sec. 31 Applications of 1st and 2nd moment methods Homework 5 (due 11th March)
Lec 14 09 Mar Sec. 32 Weak law of large numbers Sec. 33 Applications
Lec 15 11 Mar Sec. 33 [cont'd] Applications of WLLN Sec. 34 Modes of convergence Homework 6 (due 18th March) WLLN and modes of convergence
Extra lec 1 13 Mar Characteristic functions Defnition, Examples, Transformations Hand-written notes
Lec 16 18 Mar Sec. 34 [cont'd] Modes of convergence. Sec. 35 Uniform integrability. Modes of convergence
Extra lec 2 21 Mar Characteristic functions Inversion formulas and Continuity theorem Notes on characterstic functions
Lec 17 23 Mar Sec. 36 Strong law of large numbers
Lec 18 30 Mar Sec. 39 Kolmogorov's zero-one law Homework 7 (due 1st April)
Lec 19 25 Mar Sec. 40 Hoeffding's inequality Sec. 41 Random series with independent summands. SLLN to Hoeffding
Lec 20 01 Apr Sec. 41 [cont'd] Random series. Sec. 42 Kolmogorov's maximal inequality. Problem set (need not submit) Maximal inequality
Lec 21 06 Apr Sec. 43 Central limit theorem
Lec 22 08 Apr Sec. 44 Lindeberg-Feller CLT CLT
Lec 23 11 Apr Sec. 44 Poisson convergence of rare events. ClassTest 2
Lec 24 13 Apr Sec. 45 A measure on function space
Lec 25 15 Apr Sec. 45 [Cont'd] A measure on function space