CS473G - Algorithms (graduate section) - Spring 2006

Tue Thu 11:00 am - 12:15 pm, 1109 Siebel Center

Instructor:

Sariel Har-Peled (sariel@uiuc.edu), 3304 Siebel Center
Office hours: Wed 2 - 3

Teaching assistants: Office: 1113 Siebel Center

Phillip Mienk (mienk@cs.uiuc.edu), Office hours: Mon 3 - 4, Fri 3 - 4

Course materials:

• Syllabus [pdf]
• Schedule, including links to lecture notes.
• Homework, including homework assignments, due dates, and solutions.
• Additional Exercises, including practice problems.
• Lecture videos, including archives from previous semesters.

Administrivia:

Prerequisites:

Students are assumed to have working knowledge of the material taught in CS 225 and CS 273. This is not the same as merely having passed; hence Homework Zero. If you are an undergraduate and you have not taken these courses, you need Sariel’s permission to enroll.

Recommended textbooks:

• Thomas H. Cormen, Charles Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein. Introduction to Algorithms. MIT Press / McGraw Hill, 2001. The first edition is also fine.

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Coursework:

See course syllabus

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Announcements:

• 1.2.2006: The lecture notes are available through the fifth lecture, availble on the schedule page.

• 21.1.2006: The lecture notes for first two lectures are now posted on the schedule page. Note that the notes for the first lecture were updated.

• 17.1.2006: Notes for first lecture available via the schedule page here.

• 16.1.2006: Course Website is up with revised Syllabus [pdf], missing information will be provided shortly.