252-4220-00L  A Taste of Research: Algorithms and Combinatorics

Semester	Spring Semester 2017
Lecturers	B. Gärtner, A. Steger, M. Ghaffari
Periodicity	yearly course
Language of instruction	English
Comment	Number of participants limited to 16.

Abstract	Students work together with lecturers on open problems in algorithms and combinatorics.
Objective	The goal is to learn and practice important research techniques: literature search, understanding and presenting research papers, developing ideas in the group, testing of conjectures with the computer, writing down results.
Content	Work on original research papers and open problems in the areas of algorithms and combinatorics.
Lecture notes	Not available.
Literature	Will be announced in the seminar.
Prerequisites / Notice	Passed exam in Algorithms, Probability, and Computing.