CS 408, Graph Theory

Homework Grading scheme

Homework 1. Reading: Notes for week 1 (product graphs and hypercube symmetries)

Homework 2. Reading: Section 8.1 to 8.4 of Parallel Computation notes.   Bisection Width Lower bounds

Homework 3. Reading: All of chapter 10 except for "Normal Algorithms", and section 11.7 of Parallel Computation notes.

Bisection width of the butterfly and related networks.

Notes on the Benes Network.

Notes on Multibutterflies.

Quiz 1.

Homework 4. Reading: Notes on Multibutterflies. , Notes on Probabilistic Method..

Miscellaneous Problems

Homework 5. Reading: relevant sections of Kleinberg Tardos, chapter 7.

Edmonds Karp Max flow algorithm

Midsem.

Homework 6. Reading: Notes on matching

Tutte's theorem

Miscellaneous Problems 2

Page Rank

Matrix multiplication and graphs

Random Walks on undirected graphs

Quiz 2.

Homework 8. Reading: Geometry of Graphs

Final.