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Course Staff:
- (Instructor) Akshay Krishnamurthy (Email: akshay at cs), Office hour: Monday 5:30-6:30 (CS 258)
- (TA) Russell Lee (Email: rclee at cs), Office hour: Tuesday 1-2 (CS 207)
- (TA) Jesse Lingeman (Email: lingeman at cs), Office hour: Wednesday 2-3 (CS 207)
- (UCA) Stefan Grosser
- (UCA) Ibrahim Shaheen, Office hour: Tuesday 12-1 (CS 207)
- (UCA) Shuyang Wang
Textbook: The textbooks will be
Resources:
Grading: The grade breakdown is as follows:
- Participation (10%): Discussion section activities.
- Homework (25%): Weekly online quizzes (in Moodle) and longer homework assignments (in Gradescope).
- Midterm 1 (20%): Focuses on the first third of the class.
- Midterm 2 (20%): Focuses on the second third of the class.
- Final (25%): Covers all course material.
Policies: You are expected to abide by the following policies:
- Homework submission: Homework submissions are
due at 11:59pm on the posted date in Gradescope. Please submit
a pdf file. You may submit a scanned handwritten document,
but a typed submission is preferred. If we cannot read
your handwriting, then we cannot grade your solution.
- Late submissions: Homework submissions received
after 11:59 pm on the posted date will be considered
late. You may submit your homework up to one day late
(11:59pm on the day after the posted date) for half
credit. Submissions received more than one day late will
receive zero credit.
- Collaboration: You may work in groups on the
homeworks, but you must individually write up your
solutions yourself. Violations of this policy fall under
the scope of plagiarism and will be handled in
accordance with the University's Academic Honesty
policy. If you do discuss your solutions with others,
list your collaborators on your submission.
- Academic Honesty: You are expected to follow
the University's
Academic Honesty policy.
Homeworks, Exams, Material:
- Exams:
- Midterm 1: 7-9pm, Wednesday February 28th, Integrated Sciences Building Room 135.
- Midterm 2: 7-9pm, Wednesday April 11th, Integrated Sciences Building Room 135.
- Final Exam: 3:30-5:30pm, Friday May 4th, Marcus Hall 131.
- Homeworks:
- Extra Credit:
- Extra Credit
Assignment: Due 5/1
(Supplementary
files). Note this assignment is only available if
you are not participating in the user study. If
you are participating in the user study, you will
receive credit for that instead.
Schedule: Here is a tentative schedule for the course,
including lecture and discussion dates, topics, dates that homework
assignments are released and due, and the exam dates. I will update
the links with pointers to the slides after each lecture and the links
for homeworks and solutions will go live at the appropriate times.
|
Date |
Topics |
Readings |
Assignments |
| Lec 1 |
1/22 |
Introduction and Stable Matching |
Chapter 1 |
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| Lec 2 |
1/24 |
Algorithm Analysis and Asymptotics |
Chapter 2.1, 2.2 |
Hw 1 out |
|
1/26 |
No discussion |
| Lec 3 |
1/29 |
Graphs I |
Chapter 3.1, 3.2 |
|
| Lec 4 |
1/31 |
Graphs II |
Chapter 3.3-3.6 |
|
| Dis 1 |
2/2 |
|
| Lec 5 |
2/5 |
Greedy I |
Chapter 4.1 |
|
|
2/7 |
NO CLASS -- Snow day |
Hw 1 due, Hw 2 out |
| Dis 2 |
2/9 |
|
| Lec 6 |
2/12 |
Greedy II |
Chapter 4.2 |
|
| Lec 7 |
2/14 |
Greedy III |
Chapter 4.4, 4.5 |
|
| Dis 3 |
2/16 |
|
|
2/19 |
NO CLASS -- President's Day |
| Lec 8 |
2/21 |
Greedy IV |
Chapter 4.5, 4.6 |
Hw 2 due, Hw 3 out |
| Dis 4 |
2/23 |
|
| Lec 9 |
2/26 |
Divide and Conquer I |
Chapter 5.1-5.3 |
|
| Lec 10 |
2/28 |
Divide and Conquer II |
Chapter 5.4, 5.5 |
Midterm, 7-9PM ISB 135 |
|
2/23 |
No Discussion |
| Lec 11 |
3/5 |
Divide and Conquer III |
|
|
|
3/7 |
NO CLASS -- Snow day |
Hw 3 due |
| Dis 5 |
3/9 |
|
|
3/12 |
NO CLASS -- Spring Recess |
|
3/14 |
NO CLASS -- Spring Recess |
| Lec 12 |
3/19 |
Dynamic Programming I |
Chapter 6.1, 6.2 |
|
| Lec 13 |
3/21 |
Dynamic Programming II |
Chapter 6.4, 6.5 |
Hw 4 out |
| Dis 6 |
3/23 |
|
| Lec 14 |
3/26 |
Dynamic Programming III |
Chapter 6.6-6.9 |
|
| Lec 15 |
3/28 |
Dynamic Programming IV |
|
|
| Dis 7 |
3/30 |
|
| Lec 16 |
4/2 |
Network Flow I |
Chapter 7.1, 7.2 |
|
| Lec 17 |
4/4 |
Network Flow II |
Chapter 7.5 |
Hw 4 due, Hw 5 out |
| Dis 8 |
4/6 |
|
|
4/9 |
Midterm Review |
|
|
4/11 |
No Lecture |
Midterm, 7-9PM ISB 135 |
|
4/13 |
No Discussion |
|
4/16 |
NO CLASS -- Patriot's Day |
| Lec 18 |
4/17 |
Intractability I |
Chapter 8.1 |
|
| Lec 19 |
4/18 |
Intractability II |
Chapter 8.2, 8.3 |
Hw 5 due, Hw 6 out |
| Dis 9 |
4/20 |
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| Lec 20 |
4/23 |
Intractability III |
|
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| Lec 21 |
4/25 |
Randomized Algorithms |
Chapter 13.1, 13.2 |
|
| Dis 10 |
4/27 |
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| Lec 22 |
4/30 |
Approximation Algorithms |
Chapter 11.1, 11.2 |
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5/1 |
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Hw 6 due |
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5/4 |
Final Exam |
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