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CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE
STUDY PLANS
2011/2012

Complexity Theory

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
MI-CPX Z,ZK 5 3+1 Czech
Lecturer:
Luděk Kučera (gar.)
Tutor:
Robert Kessl
Supervisor:
Department of Computer Science
Synopsis:

Students will learn about the fundamental classes of problems in the complexity theory and different models of algoritms and about implications of the theory concerning practical (un)solvability of difficult problems.

Requirements:
Syllabus of lectures:

1. Models of computation.\r

2. Algorithmic undecidability.\r

3. Nondeterminism, the class NP, the existence of an NP-complete problem.\r

4. NP-complete problems.\r

5. Problem P=NP, relativization, classes coNP and NP intersection coNP.\r

6. The class PSPACE, Savitch theorem, hierarchy in PSPACE.\r

7. PSPACE-complete problem (quantified formulae and games), complete problem for the hierarchy classes.\r

8. Circuit and algebraic complexity.\r

9. Randomized algorithms, complexity classes of randomized algorithms (classes BPP, ZP, RP).\r

10. One-way functions, pseudorandom sequences, discrete logarithm, cryptography.\r

11. Interactive proofs, probabilistically verifiable proofs, expanders, gap problem, PCP theorem, non-aproximability of 3SAT.\r

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Mutual simulations of computational models.

2. [2] NP-complete problems and their reductions.

3. Particular problems in coNP and NP intersection coNP.

4. [2] Complete problems for PSPACE and different classes of the hierarchy in PSPACE.

5. [2] Examples of circuits for different simple problems, bounded fan-in.

6. [3] Examples of different Monte-Carlo and Las Vegas algorithms.

7. Examples of pseudorandom sequences ans simple facts about their (non-)predictability.

8. Amplification of a success probability, examples of randomized algorithms.

9. Expanders and random walks, Markov chains and their mixing.

Study Objective:

Provide a theoretical background for deciding whether a given problem is, according to our present knowledge, solvable and what kind of computational methods could be used.

Study materials:

1. Arora, S., Barak, B. ''Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach''. Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 0521424267.

2. Goldreich, O. ''Computational Complexity: A Conceptual Perspective''. Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 052188473X.

3. Motwani, R., Raghavan, P. ''Randomized Algorithms''. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0521474655.

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
roomT9:302
Kučera L.
14:30–16:00
(lecture parallel1)
Dejvice
NBFIT učebna
roomT9:302
Kučera L.
16:15–17:45
ODD WEEK

(lecture parallel1)
Dejvice
NBFIT učebna
roomT9:302
Kessl R.
16:15–17:45
EVEN WEEK

(lecture parallel1
parallel nr.101)

Dejvice
NBFIT učebna
Fri
Thu
Fri
Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:
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The course is a part of the following study plans:
Generated on 2012-7-9
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet1433906.html