Instructors:

• Professor Max Mintz:
  
  
  • Office: CIS Department, 462 GRW
    
    
  • Office Hours: TBA @ Room TBA
    
    
  • Phone: 898-7909
    
    
  • E-mail:mintz@cis.upenn.edu
    
    
  • Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mintz/home.html
    
    
• Teaching Assistants:
  
  

  Name:	E-Mail:	Office:	Office Hours:
  Avery Baggett	averybaggett@gmail.com	TBA	TBA
  Danica Bassman	danica.bassman@gmail.com	TBA	TBA
  Travis Gingerich	travisgi@sas.upenn.edu	TBA	TBA
  Chris Kaminski	ckaminsk@sas.upenn.edu	TBA	TBA
  Anders Miltner	anders.miltner@gmail.com	TBA	TBA
  Lauren Shapiro	lshapi@seas.upenn.edu	TBA	TBA

Class Schedule:

• Lectures: Tuesday, Thursday 13:30-14:50, Room: Towne 100
  
  
• Recitations: Friday 14:00-14:50, Room: Towne 100

Preliminary Examination Schedule:

• Preliminary Examination I: 10 February, 14:00-14:50; Room: Towne 100
  
  
• Preliminary Examination II: 16 March, 14:00-14:50; Room: Towne 100
  
  
• Preliminary Examination III: 20 April, 14:00-14:50; Room: Towne 100
  
  
• NB: Makeup preliminary examinations will only be given for verified medical reasons. All makeup examinations are oral.

Weekly Quizzes:

• There will be 10 weekly written quizzes lasting 10-15 minutes. With two exceptions, the quizzes are scheduled on Fridays. The exceptions are quizzes 9 and 10, which will be given on Thursday: April 5 & 12. The purpose of the quizzes is to aid students in keeping current on the homework and lecture material. The subject material of the quizzes will be taken from the homework assignments and lectures. The tentative quiz schedule is: January 20, 27; February 3, 17, 24; March 2, 23, 30; & April 5, 12. No makeup quizzes will be given.

Examination Policy:

• NB: All preliminary examinations and quizzes are closed-book examinations. No written notes, personal assistants, or calculators are permitted.

Written Assignments Policy:

• Written assignments (problem sets) will be given weekly during lecture and recitation. The problems will vary in difficulty and will be designed to reinforce and augment the material in the lectures and texts.
  
  
  • Assignments include: analytical work, derivations, proofs, algorithms, and computer program implementations.
    
    
• The assignments will be collected and graded. Each assignment must be submitted at the beginning of the class in which it is due. Late submissions will not be accepted. Our goal is to grade all of the homework that is submitted in a timely fashion. However, due to the size of the class, it may become necessary from time to time to limit grading to a selected subset of the assigned problems. For example, if five problems are assigned in a given set, we might select three of the five problems for grading.
  
  
• You are permitted to discuss the homework problems with other class members with the following limitations. These discussions are to be limited to high-level concepts. You are not permitted to copy or share written work or implementation details. It is understood that the work that you submit may be based on these discussions but has not been either copied directly from another student's paper nor is it, in part or in whole, the product of impermissible collaboration.
  
  
• All written work must be neat, well-organized, and include sufficient explanations in the delineation of the solutions. Messy, poorly organized, or illegible material will be returned ungraded.
  
  
• Each homework set will be graded based on the following grade levels: E (excellent), S (satisfactory), U (unsatisfactory), NC (no credit).

Grading Policy:

• The final course grade will be based entirely on the three preliminary examinations, the comprehensive two-hour final examination, the aggregate quiz scores, and the homework assignments. No exemptions from examinations will be made. The final grade will be based on the following units: (1) the ten quizzes; (2) prelim I; (3) prelim II; (4) prelim III; (5) the final exam, part I; and (6) the final exam, part II. The sum of these six components will constitute 90% of the final course grade. The remaining 10% of the final course grade will be based on the aggregate homework scores.
  

Texts:

• In lieu of a required text, Lecture Notes will be distributed in class throughout the semester.

CIS 160 Course Topics:

1. Number Theory
   
   
2. Set Theory
   
   
3. Relations
   
   
4. Functions
   
   
5. Combinatorics
   
   
6. Graph Theory