Administrivia

Lecture: TTh, 12:30p-1:50p, 109 Knox Lecture Hall

No Lecture: Thursday, February 3, Thursday, April 14
Last Day of Classes: Monday, May 2
Exam I (Mid Term): Thursday, March 24
Exam II (Final Exam): TBD, TBA

Recitation (choose one):

NB: It is the policy of the CSE department that recitations do not meet during the first week of a semester.
M, 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM, 214 Norton
M, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM, 10 Capen
Th, 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM, 337 Bell

Office Hours: Dr. Miller's Office Hrs.: TTh, 11:30a - 12:30p and by appointment. However, there is a chance that they might change near the end of the semester. If so, I will post updated hours on this site.

T.A.: Yuan Zhang

Office Hrs.: Thursdays, 3:00p-5:00p, 232 Bell Halle

T.A.: Yongding Zhu

Office Hrs.: Mondays, 1:00p-3:00p, 232 Bell Halle
Newsgroups:
Subscribe to sunyab.cse.531. I will post informaton to this group as appropriate.

Preamble:

CSE 4/531 is a graduate-level course in Algorithms. Undergraduates will be graded separately and on a different scale from graduate students.

Prerequisites:

Calculus I, Calculus II, and a course in Advanced Data Structures.
Students should know, and are responsible for, the material in chapters 1-13 of Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest. In addition, students are also responsible for material on balanced trees (e.g., AVL, Red/Black, B-trees).

Reading Material:

Algorithms Sequential & Parallel (Second Edition), R. Miller and L. Boxer, Charles River Media, 2005.
Additional material and citations to relevant material will be made available via this Web site.

Grading Policy:
The midterm exam will account for 40% of your grade.
The comprehensive final exam will account for 60% of your grade.
Dr. Miller will personally do all of the grading.
NB: Resources are not currently available to efficiently/effectively grade homeworks, programming projects, or other materials, including additional exams/quizzes. My apologies.

Notes:

This will be a paper and pencil course. There will be no programming assignments.
Recitation is required. New and supplementary material will be presented in recitation sections.
Plagiarism: Any plagiarism will earn you an F in the course. Further, you should be aware that the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has taken a serious stance in such instances and may bring you up on charges of academic dishonesty and attempt to have you expelled from the University.

Disclaimer: I reserve the right to change any part of this tentative syllabus at any time.

Copyright © 2011 by Russ Miller.
All rights reserved. No part of this document may be used in any form by any electronic or mechanical means without permission in writing by the author.