Timetable:
Mideterm will be on
the 31st of October.
During the midterm
you are allowed to have with you 1 page (two-sides) of personal notes.
Please arrive at the
class 12:25, since we need to seat everybody.
Now the
midterm
with solutions.
Assignment 1
html
and now the grades.
The solutions of As.1 are
out for the written part. Follow the as1 link above.
Assignment 2 html
will be due on 17th
November 4:00 in my mailbox for the written part
and 10:59pm for the
programming part.
Assignment 3
html
Now released.
Solutions for Assignment 2 and 3 can be found in the following places:
As. 2
As. 3
NEW: Grades as of 7 Dec 2000.
ps, or
pdf.
FINAL: Current
date -- please double-check again when the time comes
Dec 15, 2000 from 11:30-2:30.
It should be scheduled in
the same room as your lecture
unless you are notified otherwise (unlikely
that it would be anywhere
else).
GRADE POSTING
To facilitate grade dissemination,
you can sign and return the following form that will allow
us to post your grades with
the 4 digts of your SSN number. You are not required to do so, but
it will help you learn your
grades faster. The alternative is to come to the lab hours and ask
your TA to bring a grade
sheet with him/her. Here is the form
Intended Material Covered by week.
Note: we will not cover the
whole chapter typically plus we may
talk about some things outside
the book. Keep in touch.
See:
Fall 1999 material
for last years covered material
as an *indication*.
Tu 3 Oct: (ch. 5)
Introduction to Graphs
Proving techniques Trees and
properties
T u 10 Oct: (ch. 23)
Graph representation,
Breadth First Search Depth First Search
Tu 17 Oct: (ch. 24)
Minimum
Spanning Trees
Tu 24 Oct: (ch. 25)
Single-Source Shortest Paths
Tu 31 Oct: (ch. 26)
Midterm - All Pairs Shortest Paths
Tu 7 Nov: (ch. 26)
All Pairs Shortest Paths
Tu 14 Nov:
Steiner tree problem and approximation algorithms
Not in textbook - handout provided
See: Steiner Tree Problem handout
Tu 21 Nov:
Maximum Flow: Ford-Fulkerson, Min-Cut-Max-Flow Theorem.
Applications: Maximum Matching
See an informative and humorous handout for Max-Flow by R. Tamassia:
pdf (70K) and
ps
(ps is 2.1M!)
Tu 28 Nov:
Introduction to NP-completeness
Dec 5:
Wrap up.