Announcements (with dates) will be posted here in reverse chronological order.
(September 6, 2024) The TA's contact information and office hours for Fall 2024:
(August 26, 2024) Hand-written notes from the 8/21 class are HERE.
(August 26, 2024) Today's and all future lectures will be in Swearingen 2A05.
These are subject to change as the course progresses. The typeset notes are from Prof. O'Kane's CSCE 750 class in Fall 2020. All hand-written notes are from Fall 2022, 2023 and 2024. I intend to include ALL hand-written notes for this semester here, albeit with some unavoidable delay.
Date | What it is | Description | Fall 2023 | Fall 2024 |
Homework 0 | (not graded) [hw0.pdf] | |||
2024-08-21 | Lecture 01 | Introduction to the course [notes-intro.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-08-26 | Lecture 02 | Models of computation; asymptotic notations [notes-asymptotics.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-08-28 | Lecture 03 | Summations [notes-summations.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-04 | Homework 1 due | [hw1.pdf] | ||
2024-09-04 | Lecture 04 | Solving recurrences; substitution method; proving a stronger bound [notes-recurrences.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-09 | Quiz 1 | TBD | ||
2024-09-09 | Lecture 05 | More on recurrences; recursion tree method | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-11 | Lecture 06 | More on recurrences; recursion trees; Master theorem [Hand-written notes (Fall 2022)] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-16 | Lecture 07 | Priority queues and heaps [notes-heaps.pdf] [Hand-written notes (Fall 2022)] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-18 | Homework 2 due | [hw2.pdf] | ||
2024-09-18 | Lecture 08 | Randomized algorithms; Quicksort [notes-randomized.pdf] [Hand-written notes (lect. 1, Fall 2022)] [Hand-written notes (lect. 2, Fall 2022)] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-23 | Quiz 2 | TBD | ||
2024-09-23 | Lecture 09 | More on randomized algorithms [Hand-written notes (Fall 2022)] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-25 | Lecture 10 | Order statistics; randomized QuickSelect; deterministic selection in linear time [notes-selection.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-09-30 | Lecture 11 | Lower bounds; hash tables [notes-lowerbounds.pdf] [notes-hash.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-02 | Homework 3 due | [hw3.pdf] | ||
2024-10-02 | Lecture 12 | More on hash tables; binary search trees [notes-bst.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-07 | Quiz 3 | TBD | ||
2024-10-07 | Lecture 13 | More on binary search trees, including treaps | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-09 | Lecture 14 | Treap analysis; augmenting data structures [notes-augmenting.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-14 | Lecture 15 | Dynamic programming [notes-dp.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [No hand-written notes for Fall 2024] |
2024-10-16 | Homework 4 due | [hw4.pdf] | ||
2024-10-16 | Lecture 16 | Amortized analysis [notes-amortized.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-21 | Quiz 4 | TBD | ||
2024-10-21 | Lecture 17 | Mergeable heaps, binomial heaps: introduction and basic structure [notes-mergeable-heaps.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-23 | Lecture 18 | Binomial heaps operations | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-28 | Lecture 19 | Binomial heaps: merge operation; Fibonacci heaps: basic structure and operations [notes-fibheap.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-10-30 | Homework 5 due | [hw5.pdf] | ||
2024-10-30 | Lecture 20 | Fibonacci heaps: analysis | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-04 | Quiz 5 | TBD | ||
2024-11-04 | Lecture 21 | Disjoint sets [notes-disjoint-sets.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-06 | Lecture 22 | More on disjoint sets; elementary graph algorithms [notes-graphs.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-11 | Homework 6 due | [hw6.pdf] | ||
2024-11-11 | Lecture 23 | Minimum spanning trees [notes-mst.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-13 | Quiz 6 | TBD | ||
2024-11-13 | Lecture 24 | Shortest paths on graphs [notes-diskstra.pdf] | [Hand-written notes ] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-18 | Lecture 25 | NP-completeness [notes-npcomplete.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-11-20 | Homework 7 due | [hw7.pdf] | ||
2024-11-20 | Lecture 26 | More on NP-completeness | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-12-02 | Quiz 7 | TBD | ||
2024-12-02 | Lecture 27 | More on NP-completeness, polynomial reductions | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
2024-12-04 | Lecture 28 | More on NP-completeness, polynomial reductions; review | [Hand-written notes] | [Hand-written notes] |
Homework 8 | (not graded) [hw8.pdf] [review.pdf] | [Hand-written notes] | ||
2024-12-13 | Final Exam | 12:30pm - 3:00pm |