| Date | Subject | Due | Notes/links | |
| 1/24 | Introduction | |||
| 1/26 | Numerical Maximization | |||
| 1/31 | Numerical Maximization, EM | hw1 | ||
| 2/2 | The EM algorithm | |||
| 2/7 | EM | hw2 | ||
| 2/9 | EM | |||
| 2/14 | Laplace approx, Numerical integration | hw3 | ||
| 2/16 | Monte Carlo, random number generation | |||
| 2/21 | Importance sampling, accept/reject | hw4 | ||
| 2/23 | Markov chains, MCMC | |||
| 2/28 | MCMC | |||
| 3/2 | MCMC | |||
| 3/7 | MCMC | hw5 | ||
| 3/9 | MCMC | |||
| 3/14 | Stochastic optimization | hw6 | ||
| 3/16 | ||||