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General Information
Time & Place   :   Lectures 1: TuTh 9:30am - 10:50am in VKC 156
Lectures 2: TuTh 11:00am - 12:20pm in VKC 150
Discussion: F 10:00am - 10:50am in MRF 340 (Please note that this is required.)
Instructor   :   Leana Golubchik, Office Hours (in SAL 226): W 11:00am-12:30pm or by appointment, E-mail: <leana@cs.usc.edu>   (Please do not send HTML e-mails. They will not be read.)
TA #1   :   Ashish Vaswani E-mail: <vaswani@usc.edu>, Office Hours (in SAL 211): Tu 1:30pm - 3:30pm or by appointment.
TA #2   :   Fan Sun, E-mail: <fansun@usc.edu>, Office Hours (in SAL 112): Tu 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Fr 4:00pm - 5:00pm or by appointment.
TA #3   :   Tao Zhu, E-mail: <taozhu@usc.edu>, Office Hours (in SAL 112): Mo 2:00pm - 4:00pm or by appointment.
TA #4   :   Yuan Yao, E-mail: <yuanyao@usc.edu>, Office Hours (in SAL 227): We, Th 4:00pm - 5:00pm or by appointment.
Quiz   :   in class, Tu, 9/18/2007 (firm)
Exam 1   :   in class, Th, 10/4/2007 (firm)
Exam 2   :   in class, Tu, 11/13/2007 (firm)
Exam 3   :   in class, Th, 12/6/2007 (firm)
 
Class Resources
Description   :   textbooks, topics covered, grading policy, etc.
Lectures   :   slides from lectures in PDF format.
Homeworks   :   written homework assignments.
 
News
(in reverse chronological order)
  • 12/17/2007: Exam 3 grades have been mailed out. As in the past, we will hold a special office hour, on Wed, 12/19/07, from 10am to 12pm in SAL 222, for those who would like to discuss the grading of their exam 3. If you're not able to make it but would still like to discuss the grading of your exam, please make an appointment with Ashish and Tao.

  • 12/4/2007: To help students prepare for exam 3, Ashish will also hold an additional office hour on Wed (12/5), 1-2:30pm.

  • 12/1/2007: To help students prepare for exam 3, Yuan's Thu (12/6) office hour has been moved to Mon, i.e., his office hour on Mon (12/3) will be 4-5pm; his Wed office hour remains the same as usual. Fan's office hours for the week will be moved to Tue (12/4), 3:30-5:30pm.

  • 11/29/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 8 and outlines of remaining discussions have been posted.

  • 11/26/2007: Another re-grade office hour has been scheduled for Thu, 11/29, 10:00am-12:00pm, in SAL 222.
  • 11/26/2007: The instructor's office hours on Wed, 11/28, have been cancelled due to PhD screening; the instructor is available by appointment.

  • 11/25/2007: The TAs are planning the exam 2 re-grade office for Monday, 11/26, 8:45am-10:45am. However, they are still looking for a room to hold it in. Please check SAL 222 and 322. If that time does not work out due to lack of room availablability, this re-grade office hour will be canceled. The TAs are also planning a second re-grade office hour for later this week, likely on Thu, 11/29. Please watch this web page for further information.

  • 11/8/2007: To help students prepare for exam 2, Fan's Tue (11/13) office hour has been moved to Fri, i.e., his office hours on Fri (11/9) will be 3-5pm. Ashish's Tue (11/13) office hour has been moved to Fri (11/9), 2-4pm. Yuan's Thu (11/15) office hour has been moved to Mon (11/12), 4-5pm.

  • 11/7/2007: There were a couple of typos in HW6 solutions handed out during the discussion session. In Problem 6.5, "min" should be "max", and "Quality(j..n)" should be "Quality(j..i)".

  • 10/26/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 7 and an outline of Discussion 9 have been posted.

  • 10/18/2007: Tao's second office hour (3:00-4:00pm) on Monday (10/22/2007) has been moved up to this Friday (10/19/2007), 4:00-5:00pm, to accomodate student requests for exam 1 regrades. That is, both Fan and Sun will be available this Friday (10/19/2007), 4:00-5:00pm, for exam 1 regrades.

  • 10/16/2007: Lecture slides for Chapters 5 and 6 as well as outlines of Discussions 5 through 8 have been posted.
  • 10/16/2007: Please note the change in the instructor's office hours (see above).

  • 10/5/2007: Please note the (permanent) change in Fan's office hours (see above). Also, the instructor's office hours for 10/10/07 will be from 12:00pm to 1:30pm.

  • 10/2/2007: Exam 1 Reminder: you MUST bring your ID to exam 1 on Thursday, 10/4/2007.

  • 9/28/2007: The TAs will re-arrange their office hours for the week of October 1st, to accomodate the exam schedule. Fan's Fri (10/5/2007) office hours will move to Tue (10/2/2007), 3:30-5:30pm, and Yuan's Thu (10/4/2007) office hour will move to Tue (10/2/2007), 4-5pm. The instructor will also move her office hours this week, from Wed (10/3/2007) to Mon (10/1/2007), 2-3:30pm.

  • 9/24/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 4 and outline of Discussion 4 have been posted.

  • 9/21/2007: Please note the change in the instructor's office hours (above).

  • 9/17/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 3 and an outline of Discussion 3 have been posted.

  • 9/13/2007: Quiz Reminder: you MUST bring your ID to the quiz on Tuesday, 9/18/2007.

  • 9/12/2007: Tao's, Fan's, and Yuan's office information has been updated (see above).

  • 9/11/2007: Ashish's office has changed (see above); he will still be in his old office (SAL 235) today.

  • 9/10/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 2 as well as overviews of Discussions 1 and 2 have been posted.
  • 9/10/2007: There has been a change in one of the TA's office hours; please take a look above.

  • 9/4/2007: Lecture slides for Chapter 1 have been posted.
  • 9/4/2007: Tomorrow's instructor's office hours will start at 1:30 pm.

  • 8/31/2007: Lecture slides for the first week have been posted.
  • 8/31/2007: Watch this area for important announcements.
 

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