Course schedule

The table below gives the material covered in class, and points to the corresponding section in the text books.

Date Material Comments and References
Jan. 7 Administrative issues Syllabus handed
Jan. 9 Digital Trees Sec. 1.1
Jan. 11 Lempel-Ziv Compression Sec. 1.2
Jan. 14 Shortest Common Superstring Sec. 1.4
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Jan. 16 Stochastic Inequalities Sec. 2.2
Jan. 18 Probabilistic Models Homework 1 due!
Jan. 21 Algebraic Methods Professor Grama's lecture
Jan. 23 Algebraic Methods Professor Grama's lecture
Jan. 25 Algebraic Methods Professor Grama's lecture
Jan. 28 Types of Stochastic Convergence Sec. 2.2.2
Jan. 30 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1
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Feb. 1 Asymptotics Lecture
Feb. 4 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1 Homework 2 due
Feb. 6 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1
Feb. 8 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1
Feb. 11 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1
Feb. 13 Inclusion-Exclusion Principle Sec. 3.1
Feb. 15 Computing a Distribution through Moments Sec. 3.1
Feb. 18 Depth of a Trie Sec. 3.3.1
Feb. 20 Order Statistics; Height of Tries Sec. 3.3.2
Feb. 22 Height of Tries Sec. 3.3.2
Feb. 22 Combinatorial Inclusion Exclusion Sec. 3.2
Feb. 25 Prof. Rego's lecture on simulation
Feb. 27 Prof. Rego's lecture on simulation
March 1 Prof. Rego's lecture on simulation
March 4 Mobius Function Sec. 3.2
March 4 First and Second Moment Methods Sec. 4.1 Homework 3 due
March 6 First and Second Moment Methods Sec. 4.1
March 8 Application: Hardy-Ramanujan result Sec. 4.2.2
March 11-15 SPRING BREAK
March 18 Application: Height of Tries Sec. 4.2.3
March 20 Application: Height of Tries Sec. 4.2.3; Homework 4 due.
March 22 Large Deviations - Introduction Sec. 5.4
March 25 Chernoff's Bound Sec. 5.4
March 27 Large Deviations Sec. 5.4
March 29 Mr. Wang presentation
April 1 Mr. Kwon presenatation
April 3 Mr Kwon/Mr. Gwadera's presentation
April 5 Mr. Gwadera's presentation
April 8 Mr. FRIKKEN's presentation
April 10 Ms. Park's presentation
April 12 Mr. KOYUTURK/Topkara presentation
April 15 Mr. H. Ren presentation
April 17 Mrs. KARAHAN presentation
April 19 Mr. KANTARCIOGLU presentation
April 22 Mr. W. Ren presentation
April 24 Mr. J-H Wu/Fern/Zhu
April 26 Mr. J-H Wu/Fern/Zhu