Schedule

A week-by-week breakdown of the material.

Week 1

Day 1
Introduction
Day 2
Graphs, Euler Circuits, Valence
Day 3
Hamiltonian Circuits, Complete Graphs
Day 4

Traveling Salesman Problem

Minimum Cost Spanning Trees

Day 5

Cut Property for MST’s and Shortest-Paths Algorithms

Directed Graphs, Critical Paths

Week 2

Day 1
Priority Lists, Scheduling, Independent Tasks
Day 2
Bin-packing, Vertex-Coloring
Day 3
MIDTERM 1
Day 4
Linear Programming, Mixture Problems
Day 5
Transportation Problems, Tableaux

Week 3

Day 1
Voting Systems, Majority Rules
Day 2
Voting with more than 3 candidates
Day 3
Manipulability
Day 4
MIDTERM 2
Day 5
Error-Correcting, Identification Numbers

Week 4

Day 1
Binary Codes, Parity Check
Day 2
Data Compression
Day 3
Cryptography
Day 4
Wrap-up
Day 5
MIDTERM 3