| DATE: | May 22 |
| TIME: | 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm |
| PLACE: | LN 2205 |
| SPEAKER: | Yifan Xu |
| TOPIC: | Probability Generating Functions & The Simple Branching Process |
| Abstract: | Many stochastic processes involve non-negative integer valued random variables and probability generating function is a powerful tool to analyze them. We will first review properties of probability generating functions, especially their connection to convolutions and random sums. As an example we next introduce the simple branching process and study its asymptotic properties. |