Combinatorial Stochastic Processes: Ecole d'Et de Probabilits de Saint-Flour XXXII - 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics / cole d't de Probabilits de Saint-Flour)

The purpose of this text is to bring graduate students specializing in probability theory to current research topics at the interface of combinatorics and stochastic processes, in particular the theory of random combinatorial structures such as partitions, permutations, trees, forests, and mappings, and connections between the asymptotic theory of enumeration of such structures and the theory of stochastic processes like Brownian motion and Poisson processes. The course is a summary and review of the author's research over the last ten years, much of it joint work with coauthors David Aldous, Jean Bertoin, Steven Evans, and Marc Yor.Jim Pitman is the author of 'Combinatorial Stochastic Processes: Ecole d'Et de Probabilits de Saint-Flour XXXII - 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics / cole d't de Probabilits de Saint-Flour)', published 2006 under ISBN 9783540309901 and ISBN 354030990X.