Administrivia

Lecture: TTh, 2:00p-3:20p, Knox 110
Recitation: Tuesdays, 4:00-4:50p, NSC 210 (for CSE429), Ladman Golshanara

No Class: Thursday, November 26
Exam I: Thursday, October 15
Last Day to Drop Classes: TBA
Exam II: Thursday, November 19
Last Day of Classes: Friday, December 4
Final Exam: Tuesday, December 15, 3:30-6:30p, Hoch 114

Recitation: It appears that there will be recitations this semester for undergraduate students. It is the policy of the CSE department that recitations do not meeting during the first week of a semester.

Dr. Russ Miller

Office Hours: TTh, 3:30-4:30p

T.A.: Ladan Golshanara

Office Hours
- Monday: 9:00-10:50a
- Thursday: 10:00-11:50a
- Friday: 9:00-10:50a
Office: Davis 338Y-Software Lab

T.A.: Jiang Jialiang

Office Hours
- Monday: 1:00-3:50p
- Tuesday: 10:00-11:50a
- Wednesday: 1:00-3:50p
- Thursday: 1:00-1:50p
Office: Davis 302

Preamble:

CSE 4/529 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 (Third Edition), R. Miller and L. Boxer, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Additional material and citations to relevant material will be made available via this Web site.

Grading Policy:

The first midterm exam will count for 30% of your grade.
The second midterm exam will count for 30% of your grade.
The comprehensive final exam will count for 40% of your grade.
Due to the ratio of students:staff, the grading will NOT be performed by Dr. Miller. Rather, the grading will be performed by the Teaching Assistants.
NB: In addition, 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.
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. Please make sure you are aware of both the CSE and the UB policies on pliagarism and academic integrity.
Learning Outcome (Middle States Accreditation): Ability to understand the fundamental principles of the field of Analysis of Algorithms.

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