This volume contains lectures on probability theory and statistics. They examine decoupling and limit theorems for U-statistics and U-processes, aspects theory of the bootstrap, percolation and disordered systems, and finite Markov Chains.

This book develops limit theorems for a natural class of long range random walks on finitely generated torsion free nilpotent groups.  The limits in these limit theorems are Lévy processes on some simply connected nilpotent Lie groups. Both the limit Lévy process and the limit Lie group carrying this process are determined by and depend on the law of the original random walk. The book offers the first systematic study of such limit theorems involving stable-like random walks and stable limit Lévy processes in the context of (non-commutative) nilpotent groups.