Lecture Notes

STOCHASTIC STABILITY
Lyapunov functions
Fluid limits
Harris processes
Monotonicity methods
Renovating events

LARGE DEVIATIONS
Asymptotics for maximum of random walk
Large deviations principle
Large deviations of stochastic processes

COUPLING
Notes on Coupling

GUEST LECTURES
Information-theoretic ideas in Poisson approximation and concentration
Tail probabilities for a computer reliability problem