• Course Title: CS 456 Advanced Algorithms
• Location: EB 0140
• Time: T & R 12:30 -- 01:45 p.m.
• Course Web Site: http://www.cs.siue.edu/~tgamage/CS456/
• Assignment Dropbox: CS456@Moodle
• Course Grader: Udaya Gangasani Email: UGANGAS (AT) SIUE (DOT) EDU

Instructor Contact Information

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• Instructor: Thoshitha Gamage, Ph.D.
• Office: EB 2050
• Phone: (618) 650-2407
• Email: TGAMAGE (AT) SIUE (DOT) EDU
• Web Site: http://www.cs.siue.edu/~tgamage
• Office Hours: M & W 12:00 -- 1:30 p.m.
                           T & R 02:00 -- 03:30 p.m. or by appointment

Course Material

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• Syllabus: Download |
• Tentative Schedule:

  Week	Dates	Topic	Slides	Notes	HW
  01	Aug. 19	Introduction and administrivia
  	Aug. 21	Basics of Algorithm Analysis
  02	Aug. 26	Invariants, Correctness Proofs
  	Aug. 28	Asymptotic Notation
  03	Sep. 02	Greedy Strategy
  	Sep. 04	Activity Scheduling Problem
  04	Sep. 09	MST, Prim's and Kruskal's Algorithms
  05	Sep. 16	Single-Source Shortest Paths Problem
  		Union-Find Refresher
  	Sep. 18	Dijkstra's Algorithm, Huffman Codes
  06	Sep. 23	Divide and Conquer: Introduction
  	Sep. 25	Recurrences, Merge Sort Analysis
  07	Sep. 30	Master's Theorem, Strassen's Algorithm
  	Oct. 02	Dynamic Programming: Coin-row, change-making, coin-collection
  08	Oct. 07	Matrix-chain Multiplication
  	Oct. 09	Knapsack Problem
  09	Oct. 14	Graphs: DFS, BFS Properties and Structure
  	Oct. 16	mid term exam
  10	Oct. 21	Mid Term Review
  	Oct. 23	DAG, Topological Sorting
  11	Oct. 28	Strongly Connected Components, All-Pairs Shortest Path Problem
  	Oct. 30
  12	Nov. 04	Network Flow: Max-Flow Min-Cut Problem
  	Nov. 06
  13	Nov. 11	Computational Complexity and Intractability
  	Nov. 13	Halting Problem, Hamiltonian Circuit, Class P
  14	Nov. 18	Backtracking: n-queen, TSP, subset-sum
  	Nov. 20	Branch-and-Bound: Assignment, Knapsack, TSP
  15	Nov. 25	Thanksgiving Break
  	Nov. 27
  16	Dec. 02	Branch and Bound (ctd..)
  	Dec. 05
  17	Dec. 10	Finals Exam @12.00 pm - 01.40 pm in EB 0140

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Course Assignments

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Week	Assigned Date	Assignment
01	Aug. 21	Read KT1e sections 2.1, 2.2, and 2.4
03	Sep. 02	Read KT1e sections 4.4, 4.5, and 4.8
	Sep. 05	HW01 Due 09/16/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m. [Key]
04	Sep. 09	Read KT1e sections 4.6, 4.8
05	Sep. 16	Read KT1e sections 5.1 and 5.2
	Sep. 18	PR01 Due 09/29/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m.  [Dropbox]
07	Oct. 02	Read KT1e sections 6.2 and 6.4
	Oct. 02	HW02 Due 10/14/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m. [Dropbox] [Key]
09	Oct. 09	Read KT1e sections 3.2 and 3.6
10	Oct. 22	ME01Mid Term Exam [Key]
	Oct. 24	PR02 Due 11/02/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m.  [Dropbox]
11	Oct. 31	HW03 Due 11/18/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m. [Dropbox] [Key]
13	Nov. 14	AKS Primes is in P Due Required reading for MS Students. (Recommended for BS Students)
14	Nov. 18	PR03 Due 12/04/2014 at 12:29:29 p.m.  [Dropbox]