MS-E1602 - Large Random Systems D, 01.03.2021-07.04.2021
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Topic outline
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Note!
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Lecture 1 - Monday, March 1 at 10:15
- Chapter I of the lecture notes: Overview and Pólya's theorem on the recurrence and transience of random walks.
Lecture 2 - Wednesday, March 3 at 10:15
- Chapter II of the lecture notes: Percolation - phase transition by Kolmogorov's 0-1 law and the monotone coupling technique.
Lecture 3 - Monday, March 8 at 10:15
- Chapter III of the lecture notes: Law of iterated logarithm for random walks, Borel-Cantelli lemmas.
Lecture 4 - Wednesday, March 10 at 10:15
- Chapter IV of the lecture notes: Weak convergence on the real line - equivalent conditions and a few simple example cases.
Lecture 5 - Monday, March 15 at 10:15
- Chapter V of the lecture notes: Curie-Weiss model - thermodynamic potentials as large deviation rates
Lecture 6 - Wednesday, March 17 at 10:15
- Chapter VI and Appendix H of the lecture notes: Weak convergence on metric spaces
Lecture 7 - Monday, March 22 at 10:15
- Chapter VII and Appendix H of the lecture notes: Compactness, tightness and Prokhorov's theorem
Lecture 8 - Wednesday, March 24 at 10:15
- Chapter VIII and Appendix H of the lecture notes: Brownian motion as the scaling limit of random walks
Lecture 9 - Monday, March 29 at 10:15
- Chapter IX of the lecture notes: Ising model - correlation inequalities
Lecture 10 - Wednesday, March 31 at 10:15
- Chapter X of the lecture notes: Ising model - thermodynamical limit
- Zoom-link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64084650337
Lecture 11 - Tuesday, April 6 at 10:15
- Note exceptional time because of Easter!
- Chapter XI of the lecture notes: Interacting particle systems
- Zoom-link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/69400453180
Lecture 12 - Wednesday, April 7 at 10:15
- Chapter XII of the lecture notes: The voter model analyzed with a dual process
- Zoom-link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/64154380732
- Chapter I of the lecture notes: Overview and Pólya's theorem on the recurrence and transience of random walks.