Elective course for MSc students interested in stochastics. The four instructors (Balázs Bárány, Balázs Ráth, Szilárd Szalay, Bálint Vető) give two 90 minute lectures each, while each of the students attending the course are required to give one 45 minute presentation about a topic specified by one of the instructors.

The four main themes of the course:

1) Fractals and geometric measure theory (Balázs Bárány)

2) Correlated percolation models (Balázs Ráth)

3) Multipartite entanglement in quantum systems (Szilárd Szalay)

4) Stochastic models for suface growth (Bálint Vető)

Students are required to attend the introductory lecures of the instructors. The instructors assign a presentation topic to each student by giving them a scientific paper to read and understand, and the students are required to give a presentation about the topic assigned to them. The length of one student presentation is 45 minutes. Some students will work in pairs if they give their respective presentations about different parts of the same paper. The grades of students are based on their presentation.