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Courses » 2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

ABOUT THE COURSE

This course will cover basic concepts in the design and analysis of algorithms.

  • Asymptotic complexity, O() notation
  • Sorting and search
  • Algorithms on graphs: exploration, connectivity, shortest paths, directed acyclic graphs, spanning trees
  • Design techniques: divide and conquer, greedy, dynamic programming
  • Data structures: heaps, union of disjoint sets, search trees
  • Intractability
NPTEL mirror for this course: http://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106131/

9638 students have enrolled already!!

COURSE INSTRUCTOR




Madhavan Mukund studied at IIT Bombay (BTech) and Aarhus University (PhD). He has been a faculty member at Chennai Mathematical Institute since 1992, where he is presently Professor and Dean of Studies. His main research area is formal verification. He has active research collaborations within and outside India and serves on international conference programme committees and editorial boards of journals.

He is President of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) and Vice-President of the ACM India Council. He has been the National Coordinator of the Indian Computing Olympiad since 2002. He served as the Executive Director of the International Olympiad in Informatics from 2011-2014.

In addition to the NPTEL MOOC programme, he has been involved in organizing IARCS Instructional Courses for college teachers. He is a member of ACM India's Education Council. He has contributed lectures on algorithms to the Massively Empowered Classroom (MEC) project of Microsoft Research and the QEEE programme of MHRD.

CERTIFICATION EXAM

The exam is optional.

Exams will be on 20 March 2016 and 27 March 2016.
Time: 2pm-5pm

Tentative list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/pdf/Exam%20City-list.pdf

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid.

CERTIFICATE

Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam. It will also have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will also be e-verifiable on the nptel.ac.in/noc website.