PROBABILITY for EE, Fall 2016 - Syllabus

• Instructor:
  
  • Daniel Berend
    Office hours: Sun 17:30-19:30, (37, 213)
    Tel.: 6461605 (office), 6430588 (home)
    e-mail: berend

• Teaching assistants:
  
  • Dina Barak
    Office hours: Tue 8:00-10:00 (58, -127)
    e-mail: dinabar@post.bgu.ac.il

  • Dor Elimelech
    Office hours: Thu 16:00-18:00, (62, 38)
    e-mail: doreli@post.bgu.ac.il

• Class hours:
  
  • Section 1:
    Sun 14-17 (TBA)
    

  • Section 2:
    Thu 15-18 (34, 102)
    

  • Section 3:
    Tue 15-18 (35, 312)
    

• Quiz sections:
  
  11: Wed 12-13 (97, 207)
  12: Wed 13-14 (97, 207)
  13: Wed 11-12 (32, 108)
  21: Wed 10-11 (34, 305)
  22: Wed 11-12 (34, 9)
  31: Wed 17-18 (34, 9)
  32: Wed 16-17 (TBA)
  

• Exams: We plan to hold a midterm on Dec. 9. It will count for 18% of the exams grade if the grade is higher than that of the final exam and 9% otherwise. The final will count for the other 82% or 91%, respectively.

• Homework: All exercises, both for submission and for self-practice, are here. For students whose exams grade is at least 56, each homework assignment will count for 2% of the grade if its grade is higher than the weighted average of the midterm and the final, and will not count otherwise. For students whose exams grade is less than 56, the homework will not count.

• Course Contents: See here

• Bibliography:
  1. W. Feller, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, 3rd ed., Vol. 1, Wiley, New York, 1968.
  2. S. Ross, A First Course in Probability, 8th ed., Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, 2006.
  3. K. Trivedi, Probability and Statistics with Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications, 2nd ed., Wiley, New York, 2002.
  4. B. V. Gnedenko, The Theory of Probability, 6th ed., Gordon and Breach. (There is a Russian original also.)
  5. M. Harchol-Balter, Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action, 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, New York, 2013.
  6. U. Lieberman, Introduction to Probability Theory, Dekel, Tel-Aviv, 1980 (Hebrew).
  7. E. Merzbach and A. Shimron, Probability Theory, Academon, Jerusalem, 1994 (Hebrew).