(6.262)   () Prereq: [6.3702](http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6c.html#6.3702) or [18.204](http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m18a.html#18.204) Units: 4-0-8 **Lecture:** _MW9.30-11_ ([34-301](http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=34))  Review of probability and laws of large numbers; Poisson counting process and renewal processes; Markov chains (including Markov decision theory), branching processes, birth-death processes, and semi-Markov processes; continuous-time Markov chains and reversibility; random walks, martingales, and large deviations; applications from queueing, communication, control, and operations research. _V. Chan_