Design and Analysis of Algorithms

CS 3510 - Fall 2019


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COURSE INFO


CLASS TIMES: Tu+Th 3-4:15pm in College of Business 100

INSTRUCTOR:   Eric Vigoda
Eric's office: Klaus 2222  
Email:
Eric's Office Hours: Check the calendar, in Klaus 2222

TA office hours:   Check the calendar

GRADING SCHEME: Best of two:
    1.
    • Homeworks: 5%
    • Best 3 of 4 midterm exams: 60%
    • Final exam: 35%
    2. (Scheme 2 is ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A'S AND B'S)
    • All 4 midterm exams: 100% (25% each)
    Thresholds for A's and B's will be annoounced at the end of the semester.

EXAMS:
There will be 4 midterm exams plus a final exam.
No books, no notes, no calculators.
The final exam will be all inclusive.

TEXTBOOK: (required) Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani [DPV]
(Available at GaTech Bookstore or via Amazon)
(Note, exercise/section numbers may differ in unofficial online versions.)

Other good references:
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
Algorithms Unlimited by Roughgarden
Algorithm Design by Kleinberg and Tardos
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein
An online version of [CLRS] is available from the library here.


TOPICS COVERED:
  • Dynamic programming
  • RSA public-key cryptosystem
  • Divide-and-conquer strategies
  • Graph algorithms: strongly connected components, shortest paths, and minimum spanning trees
  • NP-completeness
  • Other topics depending on the time available

    • HOMEWORK POLICIES:
     Submissions:
    Homeworks are submitted via Gradescope.
    No late homeworks will be accepted since we will often discuss the solutions during
    class and solution sets will be posted to T-square after the homeworks
    are collected.

    Collaboration:
    Homework solutions must be in your own words.
    It is probably best to try the homework on your own first. For the challenging problems, it might be useful to work together with other students. However, you should redo the solution from scratch by yourself, and write it up in your own words.
    List at the top of your homework who you collaborated with.
    You cannot consult outside sources, other than the above textbooks.