Computer Sciences Dept.

CS 577 Honors - Introduction to Algorithms

Spring 2011
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Lectures

Date Topic Text Demos
1 1/18 Administrativia & Introduction Ch 1-2 stable marriage
2 1/20 Review of Algorithmic Graph Primitives Ch 3 BFS & DFS
3 1/25 Greedy Algorithms §4.1-2 interval scheduling
4 2/1 Shortest Paths and Minimum Spanning Trees §4.4-6 Dijkstra, Prim & Kruskal
5 2/3 Huffman Codes §4.6,8 Huffman
6 2/8 Divide and Conquer §5.1-4 & H mergesort & counting inversions
7 2/10 Linear-Time Selection §5.5 & H selection
8 2/15 Fast Fourier Transform §5.6
9 2/17 Dynamic Programming §6.1-2,4
10 2/22 Problems in Computational Biology §6.5-7 RNA
11 2/24 Shortest Paths Revisited §6.8-10
12 3/1 Linear-Time String Matching H KMP
13 3/3 Network Flow and Cuts §7.1-2 max flow
14 3/8 Path Augmentation §7.3 & H
15 3/10 Bipartite Matching and Disjoint Paths §7.5-6
16 3/29 Applications of Maximum Flow §7.7-9
17 3/31 Applications of Minimum Cut §7.10-12
18 4/5 Global Minimum Cut using Randomness §13.12,2
19 4/7 Selection and Sorting using Randomness §13.3,5
20 4/12 Hashing §13.6
21 4/14 Closest Pair of Points using Randomness §13.7
22 4/19 Load Balancing §13.9-10
23 4/21 Reductions §8.1-2
24 4/26 NP-Completeness §8.3-4
25 4/28 Satisfiability §8.4,10
26 5/3 Other NP-Complete Problems §8.5,7-8
27 5/5 Dealing with Computational Intractability §10.1-2 & 11.6

 
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