CISC 621 Agorithm Design and Analysis

• Aug 31: Intro, recurrence master method, closest pair of points problem.
  Read CLR Chapter 1. Section 35.4 (closest pairs alg -- aka mindist)
  Scan for future reference chapters 2-6.
  
  
• Sept 2: Priority Queues and Heapsort.
  Reading: CLR Chapter 7. HW #1 assigned.
  
  
• Sept 7: Heapsort completed.
  
  
• Sept 9: Quicksort
  Reading: CLR Chapter 8.
  
  
• Sept 14: Quicksort expected time, Introspective sort.
  Reading: CLR Chapter 8.
  
  
• Sept 16: Hurricane, no class.
  
  
• Sept 21: Decision trees, Reading: CLR Section 9.1
  HW #1 due, groups assigned. HW #2 assigned.
  
  
• Sept 23: Order statistics. Reading: Chapter 10.
  
  
• Sept 28: Hash tables. Reading: Chapter 12.
  
  
• Sept 30: Binary Search Trees. Reading: Chapter 13.
  
  
• Oct 5: B-Trees. Reading: Chapter 19.
  
  
• Oct 7: Red Black Trees. Reading: Chapter 14.
  and augmenting them for order statistics. Reading: Chapter 15.1
  HW #2 due, and HW #3 assigned.
  
  
• Oct 12: Binomial Heaps. Reading: Chapter 20.
  
  
• Oct 14: Fibonacci Heaps. Reading: Chapter 21.
  
  
• Oct 19: Fibonacci Heaps continued. See also Chapter 18 on amortized analysis.
  Oct 20: HW #2 grade list, graded papers, model solution due from groups 4,5,6.
  
  
• Oct 21: Union-Find, Chapter 22
  HW #3 previous due date, HW #4 assigned
  
  
• Oct 26: Union-Find continued.
  HW #3 due Oct 28: Breadth First Search. Reading: Chapter 23.
  
  
• Nov 2: Shortest paths, Dijkstra's Alg. Reading: Chapter 25, section 2.
  
  
• Nov 4: Minimum Spanning trees. Reading: Chapter 24
  Nov 8: HW #3 grade list, graded papers, model solution due from groups 7,1.
  
  
• Nov 9: Partition problem, P, NP, dynamic programming. Reading: Chapter 16.
  HW #4 due, HW #5 assigned
  
  
• Nov 11: P, NP, NPC. Reading: Chapter 36
  
  
• Nov 16: Matrix multiplication and LU decomposition. Reading: Chapter 31
  
  
• Nov 18: Matrix preconditioners.
  Nov 22: HW #4 grade list, graded papers, model solution due from groups 2,3,5.
  
  
• Nov 23: Fast Fourier Transform. Reading: Chapter 32
  HW #5 due, HW #6 assigned
  
  
• Nov 30: Parallel Computation. Reading: Chapter 30.
  
  
• Dec 2: RSA and primality. Reading: Chapter 33, sections 6 and 7.
  Dec 6: HW #5 grade list, graded papers, model solution due from groups 4,6.
  
  
• Dec 7: Prelim-ology
  HW #6 due
  Dec 7+asap: HW #6 grade list, graded papers, model solution due from group 7.
  
  
• Dec 13: Final Exam 10:30-12:30 219 Smith Hall.