Please complete the course evaluation as soon as possible and before 23:59 on Tuesday April 9.
The Course Outline contains information about text, topics, grading.
Office hours with G. Slade in MATX 1211: Monday 15:00-15:50, Wednesday 13:00-13:50, Friday 10:00-10:50.
Office hours with TAs in the
Math Learning Centre:
Tuesday and Thursday 14:00-16:00 (ask for Hongliang Lu or Hannah Cairns).
There are TAs available
whenever the MLC is open, and in addition to Hongliang and Hannah there are other TAs
who can help with probability questions; the schedule is
here.
On tests and the final exam you will be provided with tables and 318-Student-T-Table.pdf.
Octave resources:
Installation and Introduction
Octave Tutorial by P.J.G. Long
Recommended and accessible general reading about probability: Struck by Lightning by J.S. Rosenthal.
An interesting reference for random walks is the book: Random Walks and Electric Networks by Doyle and Snell.
References for self-avoiding walks:
G. Slade. Self-avoiding walks. The Mathematical Intelligencer 16:29--35, (1994). PDF file .
N. Madras and G. Slade,
The Self-Avoiding Walk , Birkhäuser, Boston, (1993). You can read it online at UBC library.
Pictures and programs at Tom Kennedy's
website.
More recent and more advanced: N. Clisby,
Accurate estimation of the critical exponent nu for self-avoiding walks via a fast implementation
of the pivot algorithm,
Physical Review Letters 104:055702,
February 5, 2010.
A 1,000,000-step self-avoiding walk on the square lattice. Figure courtesy of Tom Kennedy.