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Kandidatorientering, May 6, 2011. Algorithms and Data Structures. Algorithms and Data Structures – Who?. Faculty Lars Arge Gerth Stølting Brodal Researchers Henrik Blunck Brody Sandel Nodari Sitchinava Elad Verbin Qin Zhang LAP Kei Lee. PhD Students
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Kandidatorientering, May 6, 2011 Algorithms and Data Structures
Algorithms and Data Structures– Who? Faculty Lars Arge Gerth Stølting Brodal Researchers Henrik Blunck Brody Sandel Nodari Sitchinava Elad Verbin Qin Zhang LAP Kei Lee PhD Students Lasse Kosetski Deleuran Jakob Truelsen Freek van Walderveen Kostas Tsakalidis Casper Kejlberg-Rasmussen Mark Greve Kasper Dalgaard Larsen Morten Revsbæk Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund Pooya Davoodi Jesper Asbjørn Sindahl Nielsen
– Where? Turing 0+1
Algorithms and Data Structures– Courses? Introductory • Algorithms and Data Structures 1+2 (Brodal) Advanced • ComputationalGeometry (2010, Q1+Q2) (Brodal) • Advanced Data Structures (2011, Q1+Q2) (Brodal) • I/O Algorithms (2011, Q3+Q4) (Arge) AdvancedPhDcourses (by Post Docs) • Advanced Computational Geometry (2008, Q4) (Abam, Rao, Ajwani) • Advanced Randomized Algorithms (2009, Q4) (Abam, Afshani,Ajwani, Hachenberger) • Advanced Range Searching (2010, Q3) (Afshani) • I/O-Efficient Graph Algorithms (2010, Q3) (Zeh, Sitchinava, Ajwani) • Lower Bounds and Information Theory (2010, Q2) (Verbin) • Streaming Algorithms (2011, Q4) (Zhang, Lee)
Algorithms and Data Structures– Research? • Theoretical computer science • assumptotic analysis • Tool development • I/O algorithms (TPIE, TerraSTREAM) • Algorithm engineering • primarily in relation to master thesis • Seminars – students very welcome ! • MADALGO seminar • open problem sessions
Algorithms and Data Structures– Types of Master Thesis? • Solve a concrete practical problem • …using algorithmic techniques • Survey of a research area • Implement a technical paper • ...fill in the missing details • ...perform experiments • Explain all (missing) details in a technical paper • ...how 8 pages become +100 pages • Experimental comparison of algorithms • The clever idea: A new algorithm • Examples: www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/cv/#Advising
Algorithms and Data Structures– Master ThesisWork? • Large fraction of time spend on trying to understand technical complicated constructions • Implementations are often an ”existence proof” – most algorithm authors do not implement their algorithms (and did they ever think about the missing details?) • Hard to convince friends that it took you ½ year to understand an 8 page paper...
Algorithms and Data Structures– Master ThesisExamples? • David Kjær Range median algorithms • Jonas Suhr Christensen Experimental study of kinetic geometric t-spanner algorithms • Henrik B. Kirk Searching with dynamic optimality: In theory and practice • Krzysztof Piatkowski Implementering og udvikling af maksimum delsum algoritmer • Claus Andersen An optimal minimum spanning tree algorithm • Jonas Maturana Larsen and Michael Nielsen En undersøgelse af algoritmer til løsning af generalized movers problem i 3D
! Warning ! Nontrivial construction ahead of you ! Warning ! Need to understand another paper first Hidden work...