MATH 233A: Concentration of measure

Stanford University, Autumn 2018



Lectures: Mon/Wed/Fri 9:30 - 10:20 PM, McCullough 115
Instructor: Jan Vondrak (jvondrak@stanford.edu)

Textbook: Boucheron, Lugosi, Massart: Concentration of measure (a nonasymptotic theory of independence) .
Lecture notes: maintained by Yuval Wigderson
Additional material: Lecture notes with Jiri Matousek : Check Chapter 8 for additional information on martingales and concentration of Lipschitz functions.

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Course description:
Prerequisites: Basic probability background.