Schedule: CSE 2813 Discrete Structures, Spring 2013

All dates are tentative except for the final exam date.  I will adjust this schedule as the semester progresses.

Week Class Dates Events Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments
1 Mon, Jan 7   Class Overview
1.1 Logic
1.2 Propositional Equivalences
Wed, Jan 9  
2 Mon, Jan 14   1.3 Predicates and Quantifiers
Wed, Jan 16 Quiz 1
3 Mon, Jan 21 no class – MLK day 1.4 Nested Quantifiers
Wed, Jan 23 Quiz 2
4 Mon, Jan 28   1.5 Rules of Inference
1.6 Introduction to Proofs
(Tue, Jan 29, BCoE Distinguished Lecture, More than just a Curiosity, Mokawk Guy + Elvis, 6pm, Colvard Union Ballroom; +20 to your quiz average if you attend!)
Wed, Jan 30 Quiz 3
5 Mon, Feb 4   2.1 Sets
Wed, Feb 6 Quiz 4
6 Mon, Feb 11   2.2 Set Operations
2.3 Functions
Wed, Feb 13 Quiz 5
7 Mon, Feb 18   2.4 Sequences and Summations
Wed, Feb 20 Midterm I
8 Mon, Feb 25   3.1 Algorithms
Wed, Feb 27  
9 Mon, Mar 4   3.2 Growth of Functions
3.3 Complexity of Algorithms
Wed, Mar 6 Quiz 6
  Mon, Mar 11 no class Spring Break
Wed, Mar 13 no class
10 Mon, Mar 18 Dr. Swan out of town
no class

Wed, Mar 20 Dr. Swan out of town
Midterm II
11 Mon, Mar 25   4.1 Mathematical Induction
4.2 Strong Induction
4.3 Recursive Definitions
Wed, Mar 27  
12 Mon, Apr 1   5.1 Basics of Counting
Wed, Apr 3 Quiz 7
13 Mon, Apr 8   5.2 The Pigeonhole Principle
5.3 Permutations and Combinations
Wed, Apr 10 Quiz 8
14 Mon, Apr 15   7.1 Recurrence Relations, Tower of Hanoi
8.1 Relations and Their Properties
8.3 Representing Relations
Wed, Apr 17  
15 Mon, Apr 22 Dr. Swan out of town
Quiz 9
9.1 Introduction to Graphs
9.2 Graph Terminology
9.3 Representing Graphs and Graph Isomorphism
Wed, Apr 24  
16 Mon, Apr 29 Final Exam  12 – 3 pm, Butler 104
Last Modified: April 17, 2013