Lecture schedule ================ (1) Mon 28/2 Gill Intro + Heilbronn's problem (Prob. lower bound) (2) Mon 7/3 Gill Polyominoes: Redelmeier's and Jensen's algorithms (3) Mon 14/3 Yaniv S #4 Random sampling (4) Mon 21/3 Gill 50 years of counting polyominoes and polycubes (-) Mon 28/3 --- canceled (5) Mon 4/4 Rouven S #5 Randomized algorithms (6) Mon 11/4 " (cont.) (-) Mon 18/4 (Passover Eve) (-) Mon 25/4 (Passover 2nd holiday) (7)+Wed 27/4 Gadi A The probabilistic method (-) Mon 2/5 (Holocaust day) (8)+Wed 4/5 " (cont.) (-) Mon 9/5 (memorial day) (9)+Wed 11/5 Moar G #9 Convex hulls in 2 and 3 dimensions (10) Mon 16/5 " (cont.) Raeda Z #10 Linear programming (11) Mon 23/5 (cont.) (12) Mon 30/5 Gill Davenpot-Schinzel sequences (13) Mon 6/6 Gill Heilbronn's problem (d-D) (--) Mon 13/6 --- canceled (14) Mon 20/6 --- final quiz