Large Deviations and Branching Processes

These lecture notes are devoted to present several uses of Large Deviation asymptotics in Branching Processes.

Some Bounds for Almost Absorbing Birth and Death Processes with Catastrophes

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60J27.

Relationship between Extremal and Sum Processes Generated by the same Point Process

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 60G51, secondary 60G70, 60F17.