Tentative Schedule

This schedule is very preliminary: the number of lectures and order of the topics are likely to change.

Lec. Date Day Topic Notes
1 Sep 3 T Introduction, Karatsuba/Strassen
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 1, 2, 4.2]
HW1 out
2 Sep 5 Th Asymptotic analysis, recurrences
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 3, 4]
3 Sep 10 T Probabilistic analysis, randomized quicksort
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 5, 7, Appendix C]
4 Sep 12 Th Linear time selection/median
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 9]
HW1 due, HW2 out
5 Sep 17 T Sorting: O(n) algorithms and Ω(n log n) lower bound
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 8]
6 Sep 19 Th Balanced Search Trees
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 12, 13, 18]
7 Sep 24 T Amortized Analysis
[Lecture Notes | CLRS 17]
 HW2 due, HW3 out
8 Sep 26 Th Heaps
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 6 | Slides from Princeton]
9 Oct 1 T Union-Find
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 21]
10 Oct 3 Th Universal and Perfect Hashing
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 11]
 HW3 due, HW4 out
11 Oct 8 T Dynamic Programming I
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 15]
12 Oct 10 Th Dynamic Programming II
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 15]
13 Oct 15 T BFS, DFS, topological sort, strongly-connected components
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 22]
 HW4 due
14 Oct 17 Th Shortest Paths
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 24, 25]
Oct 22 T Midterm
 HW5 out
15 Oct 24 Th Minimum Spanning Trees
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 23]
16 Oct 29 T Matroids and Greedy Algorithms
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 16.4]
17 Oct 31 Th Max-Flow Min-Cut
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 26.1 - 26.3]
 HW5 due, HW6 out
18 Nov 5 T Max-Flow:Edmonds-Karp
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 26.1 - 26.3]
19 Nov 7 Th Linear Programming
[Lecture Notes from Avrim Blum | Lecture Board | CLRS 29.1, 29.2]
20 Nov 12 T NP-Completeness I
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 34]
 HW6 due, HW7 out
21 Nov 14 Th NP-Completeness II
[Lecture Notes from Avrim Blum | Lecture Board | CLRS 34]
22 Nov 19 T Approximation Algorithms
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board | CLRS 35]
23 Nov 21 Th Online Algorithms
[Lecture Notes from Avrim Blum | Lecture Board]
 HW7 due, HW8 out
Nov 26 T No Class: Thanksgiving break
Nov 28 Th No Class: Thanksgiving break
24 Dec 3 T Machine Learning Theory
[Lecture Notes | Lecture Board]
25 Dec 5 Th Algorithmic Game Theory
[Lecture Notes]
 HW8 due
Dec 19 6pm-9pm Final Exam