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Introduction -- Conditional probability and conditional expectation -- Markov chains: introduction -- Long run behavior of Markov chains -- Poisson processes -- Continuous time Markov chains -- Renewal phenomena -- Brownian motion and related processes -- Queueing systems -- Random evolutions -- Characteristic functions and their applications. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.