Homework will not be collected, but you are strongly encouraged to do it. Almost all of these problems are taken from past exams, or are exam-type problems. Problem numbers and pages refer to the Lecture Notes available here. Solutions are provided, but need to be carefully checked for mistakes!

Solutions of the first midterm.

Solutions of the second midterm.

	Due Date	Problem Numbers
HW1	Fri., Apr. 10	Chapter 9, Convergence in Probability, Problems (all five), and Chapter 10, Moment Generating Functions, Problems (first five).
HW2	Fri., Apr. 17	Chapter 10, Moment Generating Functions, Problems (last two), and Chapter 11, Computing probabilitities and expectations by conditioning (all seven).
HW3	Fri., April 24	Chapter 12, Markov Chains: Introduction (all 4).
HW4	Fri., May 1	Chapter 13, Markov Chains: Classification of States (all 3).
HW5	Fri., May 8	Chapter 14, Branching Processes (all 3).
HW6	Fri., May 15	Chapter 15, Markov Chains: Limiting Probabilities (all 5).
HW7	Fri., May 22	Chapter 16, Markov Chains: Reversibility (all 4) and Chapter 17, Three Applications, problem 1.
HW8	Mon., June 1	Chapter 18, Poisson Process (all 5).