6.045/18.400
Automata, Computability, and Complexity

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February 2003
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
            1
2 3 4 5
Class begins
Lecture 1: Introduction
6
Recitation 1: Math Review
7 8
9 10
Lecture 2: Finite Autmata
11 12
Lecture 3: Nondeterminism
13
Recitation 2: Automata
14 15
16 17
No class
(Presidents Day)
18

Lecture Canceled Due to Snow
Lecture 4: Regular Expressions
19
Lecture 5: Regular Expressions
20
Recitation 3: Regular Expressions
21 22
23 24
Lecture 6: End of Automata
25 26
Lecture 7: Quiz 1
27
Recitation 4: Quiz Review
28

March 2003
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
            1
2 3
Lecture 8: Turing Machines
4 5
Lecture 9: Nondeterministic TMs
6
Recitation 5: Turing Machines
7 8
9 10
Lecture 10: Undecidability
11 12
Lecture 11: Undecidibility
13
Recitation 6: Undecidibility
14 15
16 17
Lecture 12: Undecidibility
18 19
Lecture 13: Recursion
20
Recitation 7: Recursion
21 22
23 24
Spring Vacation
25
Spring Vacation
26
Spring Vacation
27
Spring Vacation
28
Spring Vacation
29
30 31
Lecture 14: End of Computability

April 2003
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
Lecture 15: Quiz 2
3
Recitation 8: Quiz Review
4 5
6 7
Lecture 16: Complexity
8 9
Lecture 17: Nondeterministic Complexity
10
Recitation 9: Complexity Classes
11 12
13 14
Lecture 18: NP-Completeness
15 16
Lecture 19: Cook-Levin Theorem
17
Recitation 10: Reductions
18 19
20 21
No Class
(Patriots Day)
22 23
Lecture 20: NP-Completeness
24

Recitation 11: NP-Completeness
Drop date
25 26
27 28
Lecture 21: NP-Completeness
29 30
Lecture 22: Quiz III

May 2003
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
      1
Recitation 12: Math Review
2 3
4 5
Lecture 23: Randomness
6 7
Lecture 24: Randomness
8
Recitation 13: Randomness
9 10
11 12
Lecture 25: Space Complexity
13 14
Last class
Lecture 26: Space Complexity
15
Last recitations
Recitation 14: Space Complexity
16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31


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Last modified: Monday Feb 3 2003