COMP 150-GT
Graph Theory
FALL 2007
THIS WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Instructor: Prof. Lenore Cowen
Halligan 237; 7-5134; cowen@cs.tufts.edu;
Office Hours: W 4:00-5:00pm, or by appointment.
Lectures: Thursdays 7:30-10pm in Halligan Hall Rm TBA.

TA: TBA email address will be here ; Office hours TBA.

Description:

Grading: Grades will be based on weekly hw assignments, a midterm and a final.

Rough syllabus: (subject to change)

Part I: Classical Topics

• Week 1: Introduction to graphs and subgraphs (Sept 5)
• Week 2: Trees (Sept 13)
• Week 3: Connectivity (Sept 20)
• Week 4: Euler Tours and Hamiltonian Cycles (Sept 27)
• Week 5: Matchings (Oct 4)
• Week 6: Midterm exam, October 11 in class, and Edge coloring (Oct 11)
• Week 7: Vertex coloring (Oct 18)
• Week 8: Planar graphs (Oct 25)
• Week 9: Directed graphs and Network Flow (Nov 1)

Part II: Modern Topics

• Week 10: Random Graphs I (Nov 8)
• Week 11: Random Graphs II: Power Law Networks (Nov 15)
• Week 12: Social Networks (Nov 29)
• Week 13: TBA (Dec 6)

Prerequisites: Comp 160 OR Comp 170 OR any course in the Tufts mathematics department numbered 100 or above OR permission of the instructor.

Text: Introduction to Graph Theory, 2nd Edition, by Douglas West, xx+588 pages. ISBN 0-13-014400-2. Published in 2001.

Homeworks: