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Comp 150GA: Stochastic Search & Genetic Algorithms Spring 2009 Class Schedule & Assignments MF is text by Michalewicz and Fogel |
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| Lecture # |
Day | Date | Comment | Lecture Topic |
Homework Out Dates |
Homework Due Dates |
Reading | Projects |
| 1 | Wed | Jan 14 |
intro & key concepts |
MF 1, 2.1-2.4 | ||||
| Mon | Jan 19 | Columbus Day | ||||||
| 2 | Wed | Jan 21 | Exhaustive & Greedy searches; Local search |
MF 2.5-2.8; 3.1, 4.1 |
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| 3 | Mon | Jan 26 |
Secant method; Random Methods |
HW1 (Random Search vs hill climbing) | MF 3.2 | |||
| 4 | Wed | Jan 28 | class on friday - hw#1 | MF 5.1 | ||||
| 5 | Mon | Feb 2 |
discussion 1 |
HW2 (Simulated Annealing) | ||||
| 6 | Wed | Feb 4 | simulated annealing | HW1 (due friday, Feb 6) | ||||
| 7 | Mon | Feb 9 | discussion 2 | |||||
| 8 | Wed | Feb 11 | Midterm #1 | HW2(due Friday feb 13) | ||||
| Mon | Feb 16 | President's Day | ||||||
| 9 | Wed | Feb 18 | ||||||
| 10 | Th | Feb 19 | Monday's Schedule | |||||
| 11 | Mon | Feb 23 | ||||||
| 12 | Wed | Feb 25 | ||||||
| 13 | Mon | March 2 | ||||||
| 14 | Wed | March 4 | ||||||
| 15 | Mon | March 9 | ||||||
| 16 | Wed | March 11 | ||||||
| Mon | March 16 | Spring | ||||||
| Wed | March 18 | Break | ||||||
| 17 | Mon | March 23 | GP Followup | |||||
| 18 | Wed | March 25 | Midterm Review | HW 4 Due | ||||
| 19 | Mon | March 30 | Frank Saunders | |||||
| 20 | Wed | Apr 1 | MIDTERM | |||||
| 21 | Mon | Apr 6 | L-Systems and Modularity | Lindenmeyer, Hornby | Project out | |||
| 22 | Wed | Apr 8 | Discussion | Toussaint, | ||||
| 23 | Mon | Apr 13 | Anthony Bucci (Co-Evolution) | Watson,Axelrod | Project selection due | |||
| 24 | Wed | Apr 15 | Robotics | Floreano and Mondada, Watson and Ficici | ||||
| Mon | Apr 20 | Patriot's Day | ||||||
| 25 | Wed | Apr 22 | Robotics Discussion | Lipson and Pollack, Lipson/Bongard/Zykov | ||||
| 26 | Mon | April 27 | TBD | |||||
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May 4 3:30-5:30 |
project presentations | Project code due May 1st, midnight | |||||