Lecture 2: Recursions, Branching Random Walks, and tightness

Date: 
Tue, 05/04/201114:00
Lecturer: 
Prof. Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Minnesota
I will describe the role that recursions play in the analysis of maxima of branching random walks and of Gaussian random fields; other applications will be pointed out.