Master-Seminar: Property Testing
News
The first session will be on Tuesday, 5 April, 10:30 am in seminar room 25.12.O2.33.
Materials
Materials and further information will be provided via ILIAS.
Teacher
Dr. Anja Rey
Leistungspunkte
5 LP
Sessions
- Seminar Tue 10:30 Uhr - 12:00 Uhr in 25.12.O2.33
- a detailed time table will be announced soon
Content
We study algorithmic techniques that allow us to solve relaxed decision problems efficiently such as testing whether a sparse graph is connected or „far away“ from being connected in sublinear time. Individual topics can include state of the art research in this area.
Learning Goals
- to extract significant contents of a given topic and to reproduce them in a written and oral form
- to evaluate the readability and technical quality of other abstracts
- to plan and hold a presentation
- to ask and answer adequate questions and to give and take constructuctive feedback
Literature
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Oded Goldreich. Introduction to Property Testing. Cambridge University Press, 2017
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further literature will be announced in the beginning of the seminar according to the individual topics
Applicability
- Wahlpflichtbereich Theoretische Informatik
- Schwerpunktbereich
- Individuelle Ergänzung
- Anwendungsfach für den Ergänzungsbereich im Master-Studiengang Mathematik
- Wahlbereich im Master-Studiengang Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Requirements
Bachelor studierends can take part under the Voraussetzungen für den Vorgriff auf Mastermodule.
Knowledge from the following courses would be helpful:
- Advanced Algorithms or Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen
- Theoretische Informatik
- wissenschaftliches Arbeiten.
During the seminar you will
- write an abstract about a given topic
- provide feedback via a peer review
- present your topic
- ask and answer questions
to gain 5 LP.