Instructor	Dipankar Bandyopadhyay Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology 135 Cannon Street, Suite 305 E  Medical University of South Carolina
Class Schedule	Tuesday, Thursday 8.30 AM - 10.00 AM Cannon Place, Room # 304 (DB2E Conference Room)
Office Hours	Thursdays  3.00 PM - 4.00 PM, or by appointment
Required Texts	Howard M. Taylor and Samuel Karlin: An Introduction to Stochastic Processes, 3rd Edition, Academic Press, 1998
General Class Outline and Reading Blocks	Introduction (T&K Chapter 1) Preliminaries (T&K Chapter 2) Markov Chains (T&K Chapter 3 and 4) Poisson Processes (T&K Chapter 5) Markov Chains: Continuous Time (T&K Chapters 6) Renewal Theory (T&K Chapter 7) Brownian Motion (T&K Chapter 8)
Grading	Homework sets and class participation (30% total) 1 midterm exam (20%): Inclass  Final exam (50%): Inclass