Algorithms in Nature

Ziv Bar-Joseph (8006 Gates Hillman Complex, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University) zivbj@cs.cmu.edu

Matt Ruffalo (7715 Gates Hillman Complex, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University) mruffalo@andrew.cmu.edu

Date	Instructor	Lecture Topics	Slides Download	Homeworks
01/11	Matt	Bi-directional studies, overview	Lecture 1
01/13	Ziv	Introduction to biology and algorithms	Lecture 2
01/18	Ziv	No class (MLK day)
01/20	Ziv	Distributed Computing and Regression	Lecture 3 part 1 Lecture 3 part 2
01/25	Ziv	Neural Networks	Lecture 4	PS1 out [Answers]
01/27	Ziv	Optimization and search	Lecture 5
02/01	Matt	Dimensionality Reduction	Lecture 6
02/03	Matt	Non-negative matrix factorization	Lecture 7
02/08	Matt	Genetic Algorithms	Lecture 8
02/10	Matt	Ant Algorithms	Lecture 9	PS1 due, [Answers], PS2 out, karate.txt
02/15	Ziv	Maximum Independent Set (MIS)	Lecture 10
02/17	Ziv	MIS and SOP	Lecture 11
02/22	Ziv	Slime mold design	Lecture 12
02/24	Ziv	Slime Mold Design (cont)	Lecture 13
02/29	Ziv	Pruning and the brain	Lecture 14	PS2 due
03/02	Ziv	Pruning Algorithms		Presentation topic (paper) due
03/07		No Class, Spring Break
03/09		No Class, Spring Break
03/14	Matt	Robustness	Lecture 16
03/16	Matt	Robustness II		Project proposals due
03/21		No Class
03/23		No Class
3/28	Ranjani Srinivasan	Artificial immune systems	Lecture 17
3/30	Raghav Partha	The evolutionary origins of modularity	Lecture 18
4/04	Sabrina Rashid	Regulation of Ant Colony Foraging	Lecture 19
4/06	Cihan Kaya	cuckoo search method	Lecture 20
4/11	Pedro Veloso	Slime molds and navigation	Lecture 21
4/13		No Class
4/18	Sanjana Gupta	Neural modularity	Lecture 22
4/20	Mark Mendell	Infotaxis' as a strategy for searching without gradients	Lecture 23
4/25		No Class
04/27		No Class
05/04		Poster Session (GHC 7501, 1-3pm)
05/09		Deadline for project reports

Last Updated: 12/15/2015