This preliminary schedule will be updated during the course of the semester.
| Wed, Aug 28 | . | Introduction: work-time optimality, prefix sums |
| Mon, Sep 2 | . | Labor Day, no class |
| Wed, Sep 4 | . | PRAM model; search; merge; mergesort; PRAM simulations |
| Mon, Sep 9 | . | Network models; hypercube; routing; BSP |
| Wed, Sep 11 | . | Cache-efficient and multicore algorithms |
| Mon, Sep 16 | . | List ranking | Wed, Sep 18 | HW1 out | STUDENTS I |
| Mon, Sep 23 | . | Bitonic sort (Matteo Pontecorvi) |
| Wed, Sep 25 | . | Merge lower bound (Matteo Pontecorvi) |
| Mon, Sep 30 | . | Work-optimal list ranking; Euler tour on trees |
| Wed, Oct 2 | HW1 in | Graph connected components |
| Mon, Oct 7 | . | Range minima; pipelining |
| Wed, Oct 9 | . | Ear decomposition |
| Thurs, Oct 10 | 5-7 pm | TEST 1 |
| Mon, Oct 14 | . | CREW lower bound for OR |
| Wed, Oct 16 | . | NC, transitive closure bottleneck, RNC |
| Mon, Oct 21 | . | RNC; polynomial identities; perfect matching |
| Wed, Oct 23 | . | Isolation lemma; maximum matching |
| Mon, Oct 28 | HW2 out | STUDENTS II / III |
| Wed, Oct 30 | . | Randomized routing on hypercube |
| Mon, Nov 4 | . | EREW PRAM on BSP |
| Wed, Nov 6 | . | Scheduling on multicores; distributed and shared caches |
| Mon, Nov 11 | HW2 in | Online algorithms and caching |
| Wed, Nov 13 | . | Class Discussion |
| Thur, Nov 14 | 5-7 pm | TEST 2 |
| Mon, Nov 18 | . | Boolean circuits; ACk, ACk, space-bounded TM; uniformity |
| Wed, Nov 20 | HW3 out | STUDENTS IV |
| Mon, Nov 25 | . | L in CREW1; depth and space; parallel comp thesis |
| Wed, Nov 27 | CLASS CANCELLED | CLASS CANCELLED |
| Mon, Dec 2 | HW3 in | P-completeness |
| Wed, Dec 4 | . | CRCWk and ACk; wrap-up |
| Thur, Dec 5 | ** 4-6 pm ** | TEST 3 |