1. Please print out a ¡­

1. Please print out a copy of "Course Notes & Exercises" for your own convenience & use. The current version is a preliminary one -- later and extended versions will be uploaded as the course progresses.

For Mon 19 Jan, please work through as much as you manage of Exercises 1 and 2.

2. The lectures today were devoted to a broad, general introduction to the course and its themes, including a quick going-through of some of the material of Ch 1. Next week we start attacking Ch 2.

3. The curriculum list is not yet finalised, but to a first order of approximation it will consist of Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 of the Claeskens & Hjort book.