Algorithms, Summer 2019 at CIS

Instructor: David Woodruff
Lectures: M-F 8:15-10:05 for A class, 12:45-14:45 for B class. Location: A3-301
Office hours: M-F 10:15-11:15 for B class and 11:15-12:15 for A class. Location: A2-Office 2
TAs: Haotian Yuan (yuanhaotian2015@gmail.com) and Zhengjie Yang (yangzhengjie33@gmail.com)
TA recitation: M-F 15:00-17:00 and alternating during office hours for A and B classes. Location: A3-310


Course Description    Grading Latex Lectures    Problem sets    References   

Course Description

Design and analyze algorithms!

Algorithms: divide-and-conquer, hashing and data structures, randomization, linear programming

Analysis: recurrences, probabilistic analysis

Dual to Algorithms: complexity theory and lower bounds

New Models: data streams

Grading

Grading is based on 3 homeworks each worth 10%, an exam worth 20%, a final project worth 40%, and class participation worth 10%

Latex

We encourage homework solutions, scribe notes, and final projects to be typeset in LaTeX. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, see this introduction.


Lectures


Problem Sets


References

Materials from the following course might be useful in various parts of this course:
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