This reading group takes place on Tuesdays of Term 2, 10am - 12pm in MB2.22.

The following is a rough schedule for the course. If you would like to present a topic, please email Emma Horton or Alastair Crossley.

Some notation that will be used throughout the course can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

Date	Speaker	Topic	Corresponding book chapter
23 Jan	Alastair Crossley	Introduction to branching Markov processes and evolution semigroupsLink opens in a new window	8.1-8.4
6 Feb	Emma Horton	Criticality and stability propertiesLink opens in a new window	2.5, 2.6, Ch 4, 8.5
13 Feb	Victor Rivero	Martingales and the spine decompositionLink opens in a new window	11.1, 11.2, 12.1
20 Feb	Terence Tsui	Moment asymptotics	5.1-5.4, Ch 9
27 Feb	Emma Horton	Survival at criticalityLink opens in a new window	Ch 10, 11.3
5 Mar	Janique Krasnowska	Skeleton decomposition	11.3-11.5
12 Mar	Christopher Dean	Strong law of large number and central limit theorems	Ch 12