Lectures

LectDateTopicReference
1 08/25 Introduction [KT Ch 1,2,3]
I. Design Techniques
2 08/27 Divide and Conquer [KT Ch 5, Ed Ch 2]
3 09/01 Prune and Search [Ed Ch 3]
4 09/03 Greedy Algorithms [KT Ch 4, Ed Ch 5]
5 09/08 Dynamic Programming [KT Ch 6, Ed Ch 4]
II. Data Structures
6 09/10 Binary Search Trees [CLRS Ch 12, Ed Ch 6, Ta Ch 4]
7 09/15 Amortization, Union-Find [CLRS Ch 17,21, Ta Ch 2]
8 09/17 Union-find with path compression [CLRS Ch 21, Ed Ch 16, Ta Ch 2]
III. Graph Algorithms
9 09/22 Graph search [KT Ch 3]
10 09/24 Minimum spanning trees [KT Ch 4]
11 09/29 Shortest paths [KT Ch 4,6]
IV. Algebraic Algorithms
12 10/01 Polynomial Identity Testing
Polynomial Multiplication		 [JACM paper, KT Ch 5]
13 10/08 Fast Fourier Transform [KT Ch 5]
V. Data Structures II
14 10/13 Randomized Search Trees, Skip List [Er Lec 6]
  10/15 MIDTERM  
15 10/20 Hashing [Er Lec 7]
VI. Geometric Algorithms
16 10/22 Closest Pair, Nearest Neighbor Searching [KT Ch 5]
17 10/27 Delaunay Triangulation [Ed Lect 21]
VII. Linear Programming
18 10/29 Examples, Geometry, Duality [Er Lect I, CLRS Ch 29]
19 11/03 Simplex Algorithm [Er Lect J, CLRS Ch 29]
VIII. Graph Algorithms II
20 11/05 Max Flow & Min Cut [KT Ch7, Er Ch 15]
21 11/10 Max Flow Algorithms & Applications [KT Ch 7, Er Ch 16, 17]
IX. Intractability
22 11/12 Easy and Hard Problems [KT Ch 8, Ed Ch 23]
23 11/17 NP Completeness [KT Ch 8, Ed Ch 24]
24 11/19 Approximation Algorithms [KT Ch 11, Ed Ch 25]
25 11/24 Limited Space Computation  
  12/11 FINAL EXAM  

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