CS 312, Algorithm Analysis, Winter 2006

Schedule for Sections 002, 003  -- Ringger

Updated: 4/17/2006

Date	No.	Lecture Topic, Help Sessions, Exams	Reading (Read before class)	Homework	Projects, Deadlines
Week 1
1/9	1	What is an Algorithm?	1.2, 2.1-2.8  (read after)	---	---
1/11	2	Asymptotic Notation: O,Θ, Ω	3.1-3.6	HW #1	---
1/13	3	Review: Tractability, Polynomial reduction, P, NP and NP-Complete	skim Ch.12	HW #2	HW #1
Week 2
1/16	-	Martin Luther King Jr. Day Holiday
1/18	4	Amortized Analysis	4.5-4.6	HW #3	HW #2
1/20	5	Greedy algorithms	6.1, 6.2	HW #4	HW #3
Week 3
1/23	6	Introduction to Visual Studio, Model-View-Controller Design Pattern, Working with C# (sample code)	Articles on MVC	HW #5	HW #4
1/25	7	Shortest Paths and Spanning Trees	6.3, 6.4	HW #6	HW #5
1/26	-	Help Session Project #1
1/27	8	Spanning Trees (continued)	---	---	Early #1; HW #6
Week 4
1/30	9	(Divisible) Knapsack (I)	6.5	HW #6.5	#1: Intelligent Scissors
2/1	10	Divide and Conquer Binary Search	7.1, 7.2	HW #7	Improvement #1; HW #6.5
2/3	11	Analysis of Quicksort, and Median	7.4.2, 7.5	HW #8	HW #7
Week 5
2/6	12	Matrix Multiplication, Overview of Phylogenetics	7.6, Proj #2 guidelines (in the distribution zip file)	HW #9	HW #8
2/8	13	Cryptography	7.7, 7.8	---	HW #9
2/8	-	Help Session Exam #1 (study list)
2/9	-	Exam 1 TAKE HOME
2/10	-	Exam 1 TAKE HOME
2/10	-	Help Session Project #2 (in class)
2/11	-	Exam 1 TAKE HOME
Week 6
2/13	14	Recurrence Relations  (homogeneous)	Recurrences handout	HW #10	---
2/14	-	Help Session Project #2
2/15	15	Non-Homogeneous Recurrence Relations	Recurrences handout	HW #11	Early #2; HW #10
2/17	16	Recurrence Relations - Change of Variable	Recurrences handout	HW #12	#2: Phylogenetics
Week 7
2/20	-	President's Day Holiday
2/21	17	Virtual Monday Dynamic Programming, Making change	8.1	---	Improvement #2; HW #11
2/22	18	Optimality and (Gene) Sequence Alignment	8.2, 8.3	HW #13	HW #12
2/23	-	Help Session Project #3
2/24	19	0/1 Knapsack (II)	8.4	HW #14	HW #13
Week 8
2/27	20	Shortest paths (Floyd's)	8.5,8.6	HW #15	Early #3; HW #14
3/1	21	Chained matrix multiplication; Recursion and memory functions	8.7, 8.8	---	#3: Drill Core Alignment
3/3	22	Graph algorithms	9.1-9.5	HW #16	Improvement #3; HW #15
Week 9
3/6	23	Knapsack (III) with Backtracking; Depth-first Search, Breadth-first Search	9.6.1	HW #17	HW #16
3/7	-	Help Session Project #4
3/8	24	Graph Coloring, 8 Queens,  Bounding Functions	9.6.2	---	HW #17
3/8	-	Help Session Exam #2 (study list)
3/9	-	Exam #2 in Testing Center
3/10	-	Exam #2 in Testing Center			Early #4
3/11	-	Exam #2 in Testing Center
Week 10
3/13	25	Branch and Bound: Job Assignment	9.7	HW #18	#4: Articulation Points
3/15	26	B&B Knapsack (IV); MiniMax	9.8	HW #19	Improvement #4; HW #18
3/16	-	Help Session Project #5
3/17	27	Traveling Salesperson B&B	TSP with B&B Handout	HW #20	HW #19
Week 11
3/20	28	Traveling Salesperson B&B	TSP with B&B Handout	HW #21	HW #20
3/22	29	Traveling Salesperson B&B	TSP with B&B Handout	---	Early #5; HW #21
3/24	30	A* and Admissible Heuristics	Russell & Norvig 4.1, 4.2	HW #22	#5: TSP with B&B
Week 12
3/27	31	Probabilistic Algorithms	10.1-10.4	HW #23	Improvement #5; HW #22
3/28	-	Help Session Project #6
3/29	32	Monte Carlo Algorithms: Primality Testing	10.6	HW #24	HW #23
3/31	33	Monte Carlo Algorithms: Amplification of Stochastic Advantage	10.5	HW #25	HW #24
Week 13
4/3	34	Numerical Probabilistic Algorithms, Las Vegas Algorithms	10.7	---	Early #6; HW #25
4/5	35	Linear Programming	Linear Programming Notes; Optional: Cormen et al. ch. 29 intro. & 29.1, 29.2	HW #26	#6: Monte Carlo TSP
4/7	36	Linear Programming: Slack Form	Linear Programming Notes	HW #27	HW #26
Week 14
4/10	37	Simplex Method	Linear Programming Notes; Optional: Cormen et al. 29.3	HW #28	HW #27
4/12	38	Parallel Algorithms	11.1, 11.2, 11.3	HW #29	HW #28
4/12	-	Help Session Project #7
4/14	39	Parallel Mergesort	11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7	---	Early #7; HW #29
Week 15
4/17	40	Last day of CS 312 Review for Final Exam	Study list	---	#7: Linear programming
4/18	-	Last day of  Fall Instruction  (no CS 312)
4/19	-	Reading day
4/20	-	Reading day
4/21	-	Friday: 11am - 2pm Section 001 Final Exam
4/25	-	Tuesday: 11am - 2pm Section 002 Final Exam
4/25	-	Tuesday: 7pm - 10pm Section 003 Final Exam