Ait-aa-2013

This is a home page for CS304 Advanced Algorithms.

Homework

• Homework 1 from CLRS: (due 12 Feb 2013)
  • Chapter 3: exercise 3.1-1, problems 3-4
  • Chapter 4: problems 4-1, 4-5
  • Chapter 5: execises 5.2-4, 5.2-5
  • Chapter 8: exercises 8.1-2, 8.3-4
• Homework 2 from CLRS:
  • Chapter 5: problems 5-1, 5-2
  • Chapter 15: exercise 15.4-5, problems 15-1, 15-4, 15-6

Schedules

This is tentative. The actual course schedule will be updated along the way.

• Week1: Introduction, Growth functions, Recurrences and divide-and-conquer (CLRS Chapter 2; Section 4.1)

• Week2: Medians and order statistics, Sorting in linear time (CLRS Section (4.2), 4.3, 4.4, 4.5; Section 9.3, Section 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)

• Week3: Probabilistic analysis (CLRS Chapter 5, Section 7.3; see Appendix C for reviews on probability theory)

• Week4: Probabilistic analysis (cont.) / Dynamic programming I

• Week5: Dynamic programming II

• Week6: Greedy algorithms (CLRS Sections 16.1, 16.2, 16.3)

• Midterm I

• Week7: Hash tables, B-trees

• Week8: Amortized analysis, scapegoat trees (see notes 15 from [1])

• Week9: Minimum Spanning Trees, Data structures for disjoint sets

• Week10: Binomial heaps, Fibonacci heaps, TBA

• Week11: TBA

• Week12: Computational geometry

• Week13: NP-completeness I

• Week14: NP-completeness II

• Week15: Approximation algorithms