Created: Wed 10 Sep 2008
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Note: This is an approximate syllabus; it may change at any time.
- Lecture 01, Wed 09-10-08
- Introduction; admistrivia; overview of CSU390
- Reading: Sipser 0
- Lecture 02, Mon 09-15-08
- Math primer; DFAs, state diagrams and examples
- Reading: Sipser 0, 1.1
- Lecture 03, Wed 09-17-08
- Formal definitions; regular languages; regular operations;
regular expressions
- Reading: Sipser 1.1
- Homework 01 assigned
- Lecture 04, Mon 09-22-08
- Closure properties; non-determinism; equivalence of NFAs and DFAs
- Reading: Sipser 1.2
- Lecture 05, Wed 09-24-08
- Finish equivalence of NFAs and DFAs; regular expressions;
equivalence of RE and FA
- Reading: Sipser 1.3
- Homework 01 due
- Homework 02 assigned
- Lecture 06, Mon 09-29-08
- Finish equivalence of RE and FA;
non-regular languages and the Pumping Lemma
- Reading: Sipser 1.4
- Lecture 07, Wed 10-01-08
- The Pumping Lemma; closure properties; minimization of FA
- Handouts:
- Reading: Sipser 1.4
- Homework 02 due
- Homework 03 assigned
- Lecture 08, Mon 10-06-08
- Context-free languages; context-free grammars; ambiguity
- Reading: Sipser 2.1-2.2
- Handouts:
- Lecture 09, Wed 10-08-08
- Finish ambiguity; compare RLs and CFLs; pushdown automata
- Reading: Sipser 2.1-2.2
- Homework 03 due
- Homework 04 assigned
- Columbus Day, Mon 10-13-08
- Lecture 10, Wed 10-15-08
- Lecture 11, Mon 10-20-08
- Pumping Lemma for CFLs; closure properties
- Handouts:
- Reading: Sipser 2.3
- Lecture 12, Wed 10-22-08
- Turing Machines; state diagrams and examples; Church-Turing thesis
- Reading: Sipser 3.1, 3.3
- Lecture 13, Mon 10-27-08
- Formal definitions; decidable and recognizable languages
- Reading: Sipser 3.1, 3.3
- Homework 05 due
- Note: This assignment cannot be handed in late.
I will be passing out solutions to this assignment the day
it is due, in preparation for the midterm exam.
- Lecture 14, Wed 10-29-08
- Lecture 15, Mon 11-03-08
- Turing Machine variants: multi-tape and non-determinisitic
- Reading: Sipser 3.2
- Lecture 16, Wed 11-05-08
- Decidability; cardinality of infinite sets; diagonalization
- Reading: Sipser 4.1, 4.2
- Homework 06 assigned
- Lecture 17, Mon 11-10-08
- Diagonalization; Halting Problem
- Reading: Sipser 4.2
- Lecture 18, Wed 11-12-08
- Lecture 19, Mon 11-17-08
- Redicibility; time complexity
- Reading: Sipser 7.1
- Lecture 20, Wed 11-19-08
- Lecture 21, Mon 11-24-08
- Polytime reductions
- Reading: Sipser 7.4
- Thanksgiving Break, Wed 11-26-08
- Lecture 22, Mon 12-01-08
- NP-Completeness
- Reading: Sipser 7.4-7.5
- Lecture 23, Wed 12-03-08
- Lecture 24, Mon 12-08-08
- NP-Completeness
- Reading: Sipser 7.4-7.5
- Lecture 25, Wed 12-10-08
- NP-Completeness
- Reading: Sipser 7.4-7.5
- Homework 09 due
- Final Exam, Mon 12-15-08
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