1 These notes give a more detailed account of the material discussed in lectures. Exercises are for your own convenience and will not be looked at during the lectures. 1 These lecture notes are based on the first two chapters of Introductory lectures on fluctuations of Lévy processes with applications by A.E.Kyprianou, published by Springer, 2006.

Miller CJ, McNear J, Metz MJ. A comparison of traditional and engaging lecture methods in a large, professional-level course. Adv Physiol Educ 37: 347–355, 2013; doi:10.1152/advan.00050.2013.—In engaging lectures, also referred to as broken or interactive lectures, students are given short periods of lecture followed by “breaks” that can consist of 1-min papers, problem sets, brainstorming sess...

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied....