Detailed Lecture Schedule: 1. Fundamentals Sep 06 1.1 Overview Sep 09 1.2 Measure Sep 13 1.3 Lebesgue integral Sep 16 1.4 Random variables and independence 2. Weak Laws Sep 20 2.1 L^2 weak law Sep 27 2.2 Triangular arrays, truncation, and classical weak law 3. Almost Sure Convergence Sep 30 3.1 Borel Cantelli Oct 07 3.2 Strong Law Oct 14 3.3 Convergence of Random Series 4. Large Deviations Oct 18 4.1 Upper bound Oct 18 4.2 Radon-Nikodym derivatives Oct 21 4.3 Lower bound Oct 21 4.4 Condition on a large deviation for the sum Oct 21 4.5 Multidimensional large deviations 5. Convergence in Distribution Oct 25 5.1 Two equivalent definitions Oct 25 5.2 Tightness/compactness Oct 25 5.3 Metrizability 6. Characteristic Functions Oct 28 6.1 Definition, properties and examples Oct 28 6.2 Inversion Nov 01 6.3 Tighness and continuity theorem Nov 01 6.4 Moments and derivatives 7. Central Limit Theorems Nov 04 7.1 Classical CLT: IID finite variance Nov 04 7.2 Triangular arrays (Lindeberg-Feller): Nov 08 7.3 Local CLT for lattices Nov 08 7.4 Further statements: non-lattice CLT, Berry-Esseen Nov 08 7.5 Multivariate CLT 8. Poisson convergence and Poisson processes Nov 11 8.1 Poisson convergence Nov 11 8.2 Total variation distance Nov 11 8.3 Arratia-Goldstein-Gordon-Chen-Stein bounds (time permitting) Nov 15 8.4 Poisson processes Nov 15 8.5 Poissonization (time permitting) 9. Summed Poisson processes Nov 18 9.1 Adding up the points Nov 22 9.2 Infinitely divisible processes and Levy processes Nov 25 9.3 Stable laws 10. Random walks and stopping times Dec 02 10.1 Stopping times Dec 06 10.2 Wald's identity Dec 06 10.3 Recurrence and transience Dec 09 10.4 Occupation results in one dimension