Lectures on Probability Theory And Statistics

Tadahisa Funaki’s course reviews recent developments of the mathematical theory on stochastic interface models, mostly on the so-called \nabla \varphi interface model. The results are formulated as classical limit theorems in probability theory, and the text serves with good applications of basic probability techniques.

This new volume of the long-established St. Flour Summer School of Probability includes the notes of the three major lecture courses by Erwin Bolthausen on "Large Deviations and Iterating Random Walks", by Edwin Perkins on "Dawson-Watanabe Superprocesses and Measure-Valued Diffusions", and by Aad van der Vaart on "Semiparametric Statistics".

Simon Tavaré’s lectures serve as an introduction to the coalescent, and to inference for ancestral processes in population genetics. The stochastic computation methods described include rejection methods, importance sampling, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and approximate Bayesian methods.