| Class Number
| Date
| Topics
| Reading
| HW Assigned
| HW Due
| | 1
| 9/7
| Introduction, Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithm
| Skim CLRS 1-3 , 28.2
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| 2
| 9/12
| Recurrences and asymptotic notation
| CLRS 4
| HW 1
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| 3
| 9/14
| Heapsort, Loop invariants, Lower bounds for sorting
| CLRS 6, 7, 8.1
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| 4
| 9/19
| Counting Sort, Radix Sort, Deterministic Selection
| CLRS 8.2-8.3, 9.1, 9.3
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| 5
| 9/21
| Randomized Algorithms,
| CLRS 5
| HW 2
| HW 1
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| 6
| 9/26
| Indicator Random Variables
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| 7
| 9/28
| Quicksort, Randomized Selection
| CLRS 7, 9.2
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| 8
| 10/3
| Skip Lists
| Read this paper
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| 10/7 (no class on 10/5)
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| HW 3
| HW 2
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| 9
| 10/10
| Augmenting Data Structures
| CLRS 13, 14
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| 10
| 10/12
| Dynamic Programming
| CLRS 15
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| 11
| 10/17
| Dynamic Programming
| CLRS 15
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| 12
| 10/19
| Greedy Algorithms
| CLRS 16
| HW 4
| HW 3
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| 13
| 10/24
| Greedy Algorithms/Amortized Analysis
| CLRS 16, 17
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| 14
| 10/26
| Amortized Analysis
| CLRS 17
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| 15
| 10/31
| Disjoint Sets
| CLRS 21
| Midterm out
| HW 4
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| 16
| 11/2
| Graph Algorithms, BFS, DFS, Topological Sort
| CLRS 22.1-22.4
| HW 5
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| 11/4
| Midterm due
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| 17
| 11/9
| Strongly Connected Components, Minimum
Spanning Trees
| CLRS 22.5, CLRS 23
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| 18
| 11/14
| Single-source shortest paths, relaxation, Bellman-Ford
| CLRS 24.1, 24.5
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| 19
| 11/16
| Shortest paths in dags, Dijkstra's algorithm
| CLRS 24.2-24.3
| HW 6
| HW 5
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| 20
| 11/21
| All pairs shortest paths
| CLRS 25
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| 21
| 11/23
| NP-completeness
| CLRS 34
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| 22
| 11/28
| NP-completeness
| CLRS 34
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| 23
| 11/30
| NP-completeness
| CLRS 34
| HW 7
| HW 6
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| 24
| 12/5
| Approximation Algorithms
| CLRS 35
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| 25
| 12/7
| Approximation Algorithms
| CLRS 35
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| 26
| 12/12
| Additional topics
| CLRS 26
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| HW 7
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| TBD
| Final
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