Analytic Combinatorics
Summer Semester 2018
Lectured by Mihyun Kang
Institute of Discrete Mathematics
The course takes place from 5 March 2018 until 11 June 2018, each Monday from 10:15 to 12:00 in HS AE06, Steyrergasse 30, and each Wednesday from 10:15 to 12:00 in HS BE01, Steyrergasse 30.
The course will always consist of two lectures followed by an exercise session.
See TUGonline for a complete list of dates. (The dates
with a remark "Backup" are backup dates and are only
to be used if other dates have to be cancelled.)
This course will be graded based both on the participation in the exercise sessions and points gained in a written exam at the end of the course. The exam will take 90 minutes; there will be a makeup exam end of September/beginning of October for those who missed the original exam or did not gain enough points to pass. For those who take part in the makeup exam, the points from the makeup exam will replace the points from the regular exam.
| Regular exam: | Wednesday, 20 June 2018, 10:15 - 11:45, HS BE01, Steyrergasse 30 |
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| Makeup exam: | Friday, 5 October, exact time and place will be announced later |
The exercise sheets will be available about a week before the respective exercise session. You can then use an online system (link provided below) to mark which exercises you solved. The deadline for marking is precisely one hour before the start of the session. After the deadline, no changes can be made. The choice who shall present their solution of which exercise in class is made by a random generator. If you mark an exercise, you need to be present at the respective exercise session.
Points will also be gained by presenting solutions of exercises. Everyone needs to present at least one exercise in order to pass.
You should present solutions in a way that enables the other participants to follow your arguments. If it becomes apparent that someone did not do an exercise they marked in the system (it is fine if the exercise has been done, but mistakes have been made), this can be penalised by scaling all points from the exercises by 0.5. The same holds if someone marks exercises and does not turn up to the exercise session.
Before you log in for the first time, enter your student ID number; the system will then automatically send a password to your student email address. The system will update the list of participants at 8AM each day. If you just registered for the course, it will take a day until the system recognises you.
The total number of points is the sum P of the points M gained by marking solved exercises in the online system, the points S for presenting solutions, and the points E from the exam. Depending on P, the grade will be
| P | < | 16 | nicht genügend (5), | ||
| 16 | ≤ | P | < | 20 | genügend (4), |
| 20 | ≤ | P | < | 24 | befriedigend (3), |
| 24 | ≤ | P | < | 28 | gut (2), |
| 28 | ≤ | P | |
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sehr gut (1). |
The course is based on sections from the book
Analytic Combinatorics
by Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick.