Concentration inequalities
Week 1: Chernoff bounds Week 2: Concentration bounds for sums and other functions of independent random variables Week 3: Variance bounds for functions of independent random variables Week 4: The Entropy method for concentration inequalities Week 5: Entropy method (contd.) and Transportation method Week 6: Transportation method, isoperimetry and concentration Week 7: Log-Sobolev inequalities revisited Week 8: Concentration inequalities for sequential data