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- Course Assistant: Min Jae Song (mjs1168); office hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30pm, 60FifthAve 402.
- Recitation 1 (section 004): Peter Fenteany (pf2184), Thursdays 2:00-3:15pm, Silv 405; office hours: Fridays 9:00-10:00am, WWH 410.
- Recitation 2 (section 041): Eli Goldin (eg3293), Thursdays 2:00-3:15pm, online; office hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30pm, WWH 410.
- Tutors:
- Vishal Kumar: Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm, 60FifthAve 402; Thursdays 10:00am-12:00pm, online; Fridays 11:00am-12:00pm, online.
- Leo Xu: Tuesdays 3:30-5:00pm, online; Thursdays 3:30-5:00pm, online; Fridays 1:00-3:00pm, WWH 705.
- As this is a large class, we ask that you first try to post all questions on [Campuswire](https://campuswire.com/p/G36CFB791), and/or attend the tutoring sessions. Please
email your course assistant (mjs1168) only as a last resort. The
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## Overview
Reviews a number of important algorithms, with emphasis on correctness and efficiency. The topics covered include solution of recurrence equations, sorting algorithms, binary search trees, partitioning, graphs, spanning trees, shortest paths, connectivity, depth-first and breadth-first search, dynamic programming, and divide-and-conquer techniques.
We will try to cover most of chapters 1-4, 6-8, 12, 15, 16, 22-25, 30, 31, 34 of [CLRS].
## Prerequisites
Data Structures (CSCI-UA 102); Discrete Mathematics (MATH-UA 120); and either Calculus I (MATH-UA 121) or Mathematics for Economics I (MATH-UA 211). Also at least one year of experience with a high-level language such as Python, C++, or Java; and familiarity with recursive programming methods and with data structures (arrays, pointers, stacks, queues, linked lists, binary trees).
## Resources
- **Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition, by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Cliff Stein**, published by MIT Press. Our main textbook. [Available online via NYU Libraries](http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=2932690&site=ehost-live)
- Algorithm Design by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos, Published by Pearson.
- [Lecture Slides](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/) for Algorithm Design by Kevin Wayne, distributed by Pearson.
## Summary of lectures
Class | Date | Topics | Read and watch before class | Notes | Assignments
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | Sep 7 | Intro, logists, insertion sort, run time analysis | CLRS §1, §2.1, §2.2; Insertion sort [video1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4CuPzdiAIo), [video2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdIKIf9mHk0) and [demo1](https://www.lemmaplay.com/sort/insertion-sort.html) and [demo2 (click INS)](https://visualgo.net/en/sorting)| pp. 1.2-1.5 of [Lecture 1](lecture_1.pdf) |
2 | Sep 12 | Big-O notation, merge sort | CLRS §2.3,3; Merge Sort [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr2Jf83_kG0) and [demo (click MER)](https://visualgo.net/en/sorting); [Big-O video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4cd1O4zkGw) | [Lectures 2-6](lectures_2_6.pdf), slides 2-11 of [KT Chapter 5a](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/05DivideAndConquer.pdf) | [HW1](hw1.pdf)
3 | Sep 14 | Analysis of merge sort, Quick Sort | CLRS §2.3, 4.3-4.6, 7; Quick Sort [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLauY6PpjW4) and [demo (click QUI)](https://visualgo.net/en/sorting) | [Lectures 2-6](lectures_2_6.pdf), slides 2-11 of [KT Chapter 5a](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/05DivideAndConquer.pdf) |
4 | Sep 19 | Finishing Quick Sort; Karatsuba's algorithm | CLRS §7 | [Lectures 2-6](lectures_2_6.pdf), slides 4-12 of [KT Chapter 5b](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/05Multiplication.pdf) | [HW2](hw2.pdf)
5 | Sep 21 | Finishing Karatsuba, Closest pair in the plane | KT §5 | [Lectures 2-6](lectures_2_6.pdf), slides 21-34 of [KT Chapter 5a](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/05DivideAndConquer.pdf) |
6 | Sep 26 | Finishing Closest Pair | CLRS §33.4 | [Lectures 2-6](lectures_2_6.pdf) | [HW3](hw3.pdf)
7 | Sep 28 | Median and order statistics in linear time | CLRS §9 | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf) |
8 | Oct 3 | Lower bound for comparison sort | CLRS §8.1 | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf) | [HW4](hw4.pdf)
9 | Oct 5 | Counting sort, Radix sort; Dynamic Programming: Fibonacci Numbers | CLRS §8.2, §8.3 | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf) |
10 | Oct 11 | Dynamic Programming: Rod Cutting Problem | CLRS §15.1 | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf) | [HW5](hw5.pdf)
11 | Oct 12 | Dynamic Programming: Longest Common Subsequence| CLRS §15.4, [visualization](http://lcs-demo.sourceforge.net/) | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf) |
12 | Oct 17 | Dynamic Programming: LCS, Knapsack | CLRS §15.3-4; Demaine's [video lecture](https://youtu.be/ocZMDMZwhCY?t=2592)| [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf), slides 23-28 of [KT Chapter 6](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/06DynamicProgramming.pdf) | [HW6](hw6.pdf)
13 | Oct 19 | Greedy: Interval scheduling (aka activity selection) | CLRS §16.1-2 | [Lectures 7-13](lectures_7_13.pdf), [Slides 1-10](http://athena.nitc.ac.in/~kmurali/Courses/Algos15A/interval.pdf) | [Practice midterm](practice_midterm.pdf)
14 | Oct 24 | Review of practice midterm and HW | | |
15 | **Oct 26** | Midterm - Good luck! | | |
16 | Oct 31 | Greedy - Huffman Code | 6 first minutes of video on [priority queues](https://youtu.be/B7hVxCmfPtM); CLRS §16.3 | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf); Slides 1-17 of [KT Chapter 4.8](https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/04Huffman.pdf) | [HW7](hw7.pdf)
17 | Nov 2 | Greedy - Huffman Code | CLRS §16.3 | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf); [KT Chapter 4.8](https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wayne/kleinberg-tardos/pearson/04Huffman.pdf), and [advanced notes for further reading](https://cs.nyu.edu/~roweis/csc310-2005/notes/lec2x.pdf) |
18 | Nov 7 | Graphs, BFS | CLRS §22.1-22.2, [adj list and adj matrix visualization](https://visualgo.net/en/graphds), [visualization](https://visualgo.net/en/dfsbfs) | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf) | [HW8](hw8.pdf)
19 | Nov 9 | DFS | CLRS §22.3; [video](https://youtu.be/AfSk24UTFS8) |[Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf) |
20 | Nov 14 | DFS, edge classification, detecting acyclic graphs | CLRS §22.3 | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf) | [HW9](hw9.pdf)
21 | Nov 16 | Topological sort, strongly connected components | CLRS §22.4,22.5 | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf) |
22 | Nov 21 | Finishing SCC; Minimum Spanning Tree | CLRS §23.1; [demo](https://visualgo.net/en/mst?slide=1) | [Lectures 16-22](lectures_16_22.pdf) | [HW10](hw10.pdf)
23 | Nov 28 | MST safe edge theorem, Kruskal's algorithm | CLRS §23.2 | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf) | [HW11](hw11.pdf)
24 | Nov 30 | Prim's algorithm | CLRS §23.2 | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf) |
25 | Dec 5 | Dijkstra's SSSP algorithm | CLRS §24.3 and [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qX5mIrAjtU) | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf); [Prof. Shoup's demo](dijkstra_demo.pdf) | [HW12](hw12.pdf)
26 | Dec 7 | Floyd-Warshall APSP algorithm | CLRS §25.2 | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf) | [Practice Final](practice_final.pdf)
27| Dec 12 | Computability, Wang tiling, the halting problem is uncomputable | CLRS §34 | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf) |
28| Dec 14 | P vs. NP, NP completeness, Vertex Cover, Independent set, 3SAT, reductions, approximating Vertex Cover | CLRS §34, 35 | [Lectures 23-28](lectures_23_28.pdf) |
| **Dec 19** | 2:00-3:50pm, loc: Cantor 101, Final - Good Luck ! |||
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