Statistics 252/312: Stochastic Processes
Winter 2009

Instructor: Professor Steve Lalley
Office: 118 Eckhart Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:45 - 2:45
Phone: 702-9890
E-mail: lalley "atsign" galton.uchicago.edu

Course Assistant: Han Han
Required Text: None. Lecture Notes will be posted here.
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Midterm Exam: Tuesday February 10
Final Exam: Monday, March 16, 1:30 -- 3:30 p.m. Eck 117.

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Random Walks and Chemistry:

Here are two recent short papers that discuss how nature takes advantage of the recurrence of random walk (or diffusion) in one and two dimensions to get molecules to desired destinations. (Thanks to Aaron Dinner of Chemistry for these.)