Information for Random Graphs and Complex Networks (2WS12)

 

Lecturers:
Prof. dr. Remco van der Hofstad, HG 9.04, tel.040-2472910, rhofstad@win.tue.nl 

 

Location: Helix West 4.91 (Helix building)
 

Exam: Oral.
 

Course material: Lecture Notes.


 

 

Course material:

Probability and Random Processes, Geoffrey Grimmett and David Stirzaker, third edition.

Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

 

Lecture days:

 

 

Dates are: August 30, September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 11, 18, 25, November 1.

Possibly November 8 is used as an extra day, for a question hour or when one of

the lectures has been cancelled.

 

 

Course outline:

Week 1: Section 5.1, and start with Section 5.3.

Week 2: Sections 5.3-5.4.

Week 3: Sections 5.7-5.10.

Week 4: Sections 7.2, 7.4, 7.5.

Week 5: Sections 7.7, 7.8.

Week 6: Sections 13.1-13.3, except for pages 518-522.

Week 7: Sections 13.4, 13.7

Week 8: Section 13.8

Week 9: Section 13.9

 

 

Exam:

There will be an oral exam.

 

 

Exercises:

These sets of questions may be changed in the course of the lectures!

Week 1               Section 5.1: 1ab, 2, 6, 7, plus the exercises given during the lecture.

 

Week 2               Section 5.3: 1,2,8,

                           Section 5.4: 1,3,5,6,

                           Section 5.12: 8.


Week 3               Section 5.7: 1, 5, 7.

                           Section 5.8: 1, 2, 10.

                           Section 5.9: 1, 3.

                           Section 5.10: 1, 3.

 

Week 4               Section 7.1: 5

                           Section 7.2: 5, 7, 8,10.

                           Section 7.4: 1, 2

                           Section 7.5: 3

 

Week 5               Section 7.7: 1, 2, 3.

                           Section 7.8: 1, 2, 3.

      

Week 6              Section 13.3: 7, 8, 9, 10.

                          Section 13.12: 1, 7.

 

Week 7              Section 13.4: 1, 2.

                          Section 13.7: 1.

                          Section 13.12: 11, 15.

 

 

Week 8              Section 13.7: 2, 3.

                          Section 13.8: 1, 5.

 

Week 9              Section 13.9: 2, 3, 5.      

 

Extra exercises Section 5.12: 5, 6, 7, 11, 12.

 

Translation of notions from probability and statistics