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Last updated on Tuesday Sep 21, 2004
- Topics: Administrative aspects of CSE 431/531, Asymtopic Notations and Analysis, Solving Recurrences, Master Theorem
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: Chapter 3 & 4 (except 4.4)
- Supplementary Reading: (but you should really scan through
these chapters)
- CLRS: Chapter 1 & 2
- Topics: same as last week
- Homework 1 out: Tuesday, Sep 07.
- Reading Assignment: same as last week
- CLRS: Chapter 3 & 4 (except 4.4)
- Topics: Divide and Conquer, including Quick Sort, Merge Sort, Order Statistics, Matrix Multiplication
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: Chapters 5, 7, 9, Sections 28.1, 28.2, Appendix C1-4
- No class on Sep 16, Rosh Hashanah
- ... continue with Divide and Conquer
- Reading Assignment: same as last week
- Homework 1 due, Homework 2 out: Tuesday Sep 21
- Topics: Fast Fourier Transform (another illustration of the divide-and-conquer paradigm).
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: 30.1 and 30.2
- Supplementary reading: (not required, just for your reference)
- Topics:
- Introductory Graph Algorithms (will be covered throughout the semester in the recitations)
- Greedy Algorithms and Matroids, with Huffman Coding, Minimum Spanning Trees, Shortest Path with Dijkstra's Algorithm, Scheduling Problems
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: Chapter 16, Chapter 23, Section 24.3
- Homework 2 due, Homework 3 out: Tue Oct 05
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Homework 3 due, Tuesday Oct 19
- Midterm exam: Thursday Oct 21.
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Homework 4 out: Tuesday Oct 26
- Topic: Dynamic Programming with Knapsack problem, Longest Common Subsequence, Shortest Paths, Matrix-chain multiplication,
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: 15, 24, 25
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Homework 4 due, Homework 5 out: Tue Nov 09
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Topics: NP-Completeness
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: Chapter 34
- Homework 5 due, homework 6 out: Tue Nov 23.
- No class on Thursday Nov 25: Fall Recess
- Topics: Approximation Algorithms
- Reading Assignment:
- CLRS: Chapter 35
- Topics and Readings: Same as last week.
- Homework 6 due: Tuesday Dec 07.
- Dec 16. NSC 215. 3:30pm-6:30pm