Algorithms, January 2021 at CIS
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Instructor:
David Woodruff
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Lectures:
7-9pm ET on Friday for first 6 weeks, then 7-10pm ET Friday
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Office Hours:
Talk with Tianrui
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TAs:
Tianrui Liu
Course Description
Design and Analyze Algorithms!
Algorithms: divide-and-conquer, hashing and data structures, randomization, linear programming
Analysis: recurrences, probabilistic analysis
Dual to Algorithms: complexity theory and lower bounds
New Models: data streams
Grading
Grading is based on 4 homeworks each worth 8%, an exam worth 18%, a final project worth 40%, and class participation worth 10%
Latex
We encourage homework solutions, scribe notes, and final projects to be typeset in LaTeX. If you are not familiar with LaTeX, see this introduction.
Lectures
Problem Sets
Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4
References
Materials from the following course might be useful in various parts of this course:
Undergraduate Algorithms Class at Carnegie Mellon University
Maintained by David Woodruff