| Day | Date | Topics Covered | Notes and Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | Aug 30 | Lecture 1: Overview of 15-210 Algorithms for Sequencing the Genome |
lecture notes |
| Wed | Aug 31 | Recitation 1 - Parenthesis Matching and SML Review | recitation notes |
| Thu | Sep 01 | Lecture 2: Algorithmic techniques and Cost Models | lecture notes |
| Tue | Sep 06 | Lecture 3: Divide-and-Conquer and Recurrences | lecture notes |
| Wed | Sep 07 | Recitation 2 - Scan | recitation notes |
| Thu | Sep 08 | Lecture 4: Data Abstraction and Sequences I | lecture notes |
| Tue | Sep 13 | Lecture 5: More on Sequences | lecture notes |
| Wed | Sep 14 | Recitation 3 - Proofs and Recurrences | recitation notes |
| Thu | Sep 15 | Lecture 6: Collect, Sets and Tables | lecture notes |
| Tue | Sep 20 | Lecture 7: Graph Basics | lecture notes |
| Wed | Sep 21 | Recitation 4 - MapReduce and Graphs | recitation notes |
| Thu | Sep 22 | Lecture 8: Graphs Search and BFS | lecture notes |
| Tue | Sep 27 | Lecture 9: DFS, Weighted Graphs, Shortest Paths | lecture notes |
| Wed | Sep 28 | Recitation 5 - More Graphs | recitation notes |
| Thu | Sep 29 | Lecture 10: Single Source Shortest Paths | lecture notes |
| Tue | Oct 04 | Lecture 11: All pairs Shortest Paths | lecture notes |
| Wed | Oct 05 | Recitation 6 - Exam Review | |
| Thu | Oct 06 | Lecture 12: EXAM 1 : NO CLASS | |
| Tue | Oct 11 | Lecture 13: Graph Contraction | lecture notes |
| Wed | Oct 12 | Recitation 7 - Exam Debriefing | recitation notes |
| Thu | Oct 13 | Lecture 14: Graph Contraction Cont. and Probability | lecture notes |
| Tue | Oct 18 | Lecture 15: MST | lecture notes |
| Wed | Oct 19 | Recitation 8 - Analyzing (Randomized) Algorithms | recitation notes |
| Thu | Oct 20 | Lecture 16: Bipartite Graphs, Error Correcting Codes, and Set Cover | lecture notes |
| Tue | Oct 25 | Lecture 17: Sparse Matrices: Vector and Matrix Operations | lecture notes |
| Wed | Oct 26 | Recitation 9 - Graphs and Matrices | recitation notes |
| Thu | Oct 27 | Lecture 18: Search Trees: Split/Join/Union and Treaps | lecture notes |
| Tue | Nov 01 | Lecture 19: Search Trees: Union analysis and Quicksort | lecture notes |
| Wed | Nov 02 | Recitation 10 - Set Representation, QuickSort Review | recitation notes |
| Thu | Nov 03 | Lecture 20: Search Trees: Balanced Trees and High Probability Bounds | lecture notes |
| Tue | Nov 08 | Lecture 21: Fun with Trees : Ordered Sets and Augmenting Trees | lecture notes |
| Wed | Nov 09 | Recitation 11 - Exam Review | |
| Thu | Nov 10 | Lecture 22: EXAM 2 | |
| Tue | Nov 15 | Lecture 23: Augmenting Trees and Leftist Heaps | lecture notes |
| Wed | Nov 16 | Recitation 12 - Interval Stabbing with Augmented Trees and Exam Debriefing | recitation notes |
| Thu | Nov 17 | Lecture 24: Leftist Heap Analysis and Lower Bounds for Sorting and Merging | lecture notes |
| Tue | Nov 22 | Lecture 25: Hashing | lecture notes |
| Wed | Nov 23 | Happy Thanksgiving - No Class | |
| Thu | Nov 24 | Happy Thanksgiving - No Class | |
| Tue | Nov 29 | Lecture 26: Dynamic Programming I | lecture notes |
| Wed | Nov 30 | Recitation 13 - Removing Duplicates using Hashing, Longest Palindromic Subsequence | recitation notes |
| Thu | Dec 01 | Lecture 27: Dynamic Programming II | lecture notes |
| Tue | Dec 06 | Lecture 28: Finish Dynamic Programming, Other Parallel Languages | |
| Thu | Dec 08 | Lecture 29: Other Parallel Languages, Review |
The development of this course was supported in part by generous gifts from Intel's Higher Education Program, Microsoft Research, and IBM Research.