Lectures

I post links to lecture videos and scribbles a day or two after each lecture. I also provide links to my own lecture notes and/or portions of the references that cover similar material, usually with more technical detail. I will fill in a tentative list of future topics over time.

Mon Jan 29

O(·) and Ω(·) notation; amortized analysis; Array-lists
[video, scribbles, makeup video, makeup scribbles, notes, Morin 2.1–2.2, Mount 2, Radge 3.2]

Mon Feb 05

More amortized analysis: stacks, queues, steques, and quacks
[video, scribbles, notes (see also HW2)]

Mon Feb 12

More amortized analysis: array-list concatenation, tombstones
[video, scribbles, notes (see also HW3)]

Mon Feb 19

Scapegoat trees
[video, scribbles, notes, Morin 8, Mount 15]

Mon Feb 26

Scapegoat tree insertion analysis; augmented binary search trees
[video, scribbles, notes]

Mon Mar 04

Splay trees, Ropes
[video, scribbles, notes (see also HW5), Mount 10]

Mon Mar 11

No lecture — Spring break

Mon Mar 18

Mergeable priority queues: Leftist heaps, binomial heaps
[video, scribbles, notes, Mount 5]

Mon Mar 25

Faster priority queues: Fibonacci heaps and pairing heaps
[video, scribbles, notes]

Mon Apr 01

Range-minimum and lowest-common-ancestor queries
[video, scribbles, notes; MIT video, MIT scribbles, MIT notes; Bender–Farach-Colton paper]

Mon Apr 08

Range trees and segment trees — Live lecture canceled for the solar eclipse
[video, scribbles, notes]

Mon Apr 15

No lecture — Jeff was sick

Mon Apr 22

Sweep-line algorithms
[video, scribbles, David Mount's computational geometry notes]

Mon Apr 29

[Joint with SIGma] Hashlife
[video, slides (without animations), Gosper's 1984 paper, G4G video,
John Williamson's Python implementation, Golly]