Schedule
This is a tentative schedule. There will likely be changes and we will try to keep this page up to date.
| Week | Date | Event | Topic | Assignments | PFPL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||||
| Aug 25 | Lecture 01 | Overview / Lambda Calculus | Ch. 21 | ||
| Aug 27 | Lecture 02 | Programming in the Lambda Calculus | Ch. 21 | ||
| 2 | |||||
| Sep 1 | Lecture 03 | Recursion in the Lambda Calculus | Hw 1 out | Ch. 21 | |
| Sep 3 | Lecture 04 | Inference Rules and Definition of Substitution | Ch. 1-3 | ||
| 3 | |||||
| Sep 8 | Lecture 05 | System T: Static Semantics and Type Soundness | Hw 1 due / Hw 2 out | Ch. 9 | |
| Sep 10 | Lecture 06 | Normalization, Definability | Ch. 9 | ||
| 4 | |||||
| Sep 15 | Lecture 07 | Undefinability and Products | Hw 2 due / Hw 3 out | Ch. 10 | |
| Sep 17 | Lecture 08 | Sums and Type Isomorphisms | Ch. 11 | ||
| 5 | |||||
| Sep 22 | Lecture 09 | Inductive and Co-inductive Types | Hw 3 due / Hw 4 out | Ch. 14,15 | |
| Sep 24 | Lecture 10 | Parametric Polymorphism: System F | Ch. 16 | ||
| 6 | |||||
| Sep 29 | Lecture 11 | Exitential Types and Type Abstraction | Hw 4 due / Hw 5 out | Ch. 17 | |
| Oct 1 | Lecture 12 | Eager and Lazy Evaluation: PCF | Ch. 19 | ||
| 7 | |||||
| Oct 6 | Lecture 13 | Recursive Types | Hw 5 due | Ch. 20 | |
| Oct 8 | Midterm I | Open book; during class | |||
| Oct 13 | Fall Break | ||||
| Oct 15 | Fall Break | ||||
| 8 | |||||
| Oct 20 | Lecture 14 | Dynamic Types | Hw 6 out | Ch. 22 | |
| Oct 22 | Lecture 15 | Evaluation Dynamics and the K Machine | Ch. 28 | ||
| 9 | |||||
| Oct 27 | Lecture 16 | Exceptions in the K Machine | Hw 6 due / Hw 7 out | Ch. 29 | |
| Oct 29 | Lecture 17 | Parametricity | Ch. 48 | ||
| 10 | |||||
| Nov 3 | Democracy Day | ||||
| Nov 5 | Lecture 18 | Applications of Parametricity | Hw 7 due / Hw 8 out | Ch. 48 | |
| 11 | |||||
| Nov 10 | Lecture 19 | Types as Propositions | Ch. 12,13 | ||
| Nov 12 | Lecture 20 | Substructural Type Systems | Hw 8 due / Select MP | - | |
| 12 | |||||
| Nov 17 | Midterm II | Open book | |||
| Nov 19 | Lecture 21 | Characterizing PTIME with LFPL | - | ||
| 13 | |||||
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| 14 | |||||
| Dec 1 | Lecture 22 | Automatic Amortized Resource Analysis | - | ||
| Dec 3 | Project Day | MPs are due on Dec 7 | |||
| Dec 16 | Final grades due |