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Lecture Contents

Chapter sections refer to the textbook by Kleinberg and Tardos (2005).
CLR refers to the book by Cormen, Leiserson and Rivest (2001)
DS refers to the book by Kreher and Stinson (1998).

Tentative schedule (it will be updated if changes occur):
dates and tasks  Lecture Contents: textbook sections
and extra materials
Jan 06 Introduction to the course Intro to NPC np.pdf (pages 1-13)
course outline
Jan 11,13 Polynomial time reductions Ch8.1,8.2
book slides: 08intractability.pdf
Jan 18,20 NP, NP-completeness Ch8.3,8.4; CLR-Ch34
book slides: 08np-complete.pdf
CIRCUITSATisNPhard.pdf
Jan 25,27(A1 due) Reductions: Sequencing and partitioning problems. Ch8.5,8.6
book slides: 08reductions-poly.pdf (1-26)
Feb 1,3 Reductions: Graph colouring, numerical problems,
partial taxonomy of hard problems.
Ch8.7,8.8, 8.10
book slides: 08reductions-poly.pdf (27-43)
Feb 6
(SATURDAY)
Midterm test 1. Time/location to be decided.
Feb 8,10 Beyond NP (co-NP, PSPACE). Project guidelines. Ch8.9, Ch 9
Feb 14-20 Study break.
Feb 22-26 Classes cancelled. Project research.
(makeup time: Saturday Midterms)
Textbook, library (physical/online).
Mar 1(PP due),3 Backtracking. Slides (covered sections 1)Intro,2)All cliques,5) Bounding). DS-Ch3.
Mar 8,10(A2 due) Extending the limits of tractability. Ch10 (10.1,10.2,10.3)
Mar 15,17 Approximation algorithms. Ch11 (11.1,11.2,11.4,11.6)
Mar 20
(SATURDAY)
Midterm test 2. Time/location to be decided.
Mar 22,24 (PM&C due) Local Search. Ch12
Mar 29,31(A3 due) Randomized Algorithms. Ch13
Apr (5),7 (Easter Monday), course overview and/or other topics. Textbook/TBA.
Apr 12 (PT due) Project talks. (Longer time period?)
Apr ???(PR due) Project report due.
Background references: textbook sections
Basics of algorithmic analysis Ch2