Syllabus

Syllabus & (tentative) Schedule

THE INFORMATION ON THIS WIKI PAGE IS EVOLVING AND WILL BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT SEMESTER

Schedule at-a-glance

Legend: date (quizzes & exams) and due date (homeworks)

Hmwk	Quizz	Exam	No class

	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.	Tu.	Th.
August	25	27
September	1	3	8	10	15	17	22	24	29
October		1	6	8	13	15	20	22	27	29
November	3	5	10	12	17	19	24	26
December	1	3			15

FINAL EXAM: Tuesday December 15, 2015, 6:00-8:00pm in TBD.

Detailed Schedule & Syllabus

NOTE: This schedule in ONLY TENTATIVE, and VERY LIKELY to change as certain topics may end-up being harder or easier than anticipated. Changes to the schedule will be reflected as quickly as possible on this page.

Date	Scope	Material & Reading Assignments (To Be Read Ahead of Class)	Notes & slides (If any)	Review Problems	Quizzes & Homeworks
8/25	Course overview, logistics, (motivating) examples and terminology	Chapters 1 & 2	Notes 0 Slides 1	Problems 2.1 & 2.2 and Solution
8/27	A brief review of probability topics, both basic and slightly more advanced, which are needed in the course	Chapters 3 & 5	Slides 2 Lecture 2 problems	Review 2 Problems and Solution
9/1	A brief review of probability topics, both basic and slightly more advanced, which are needed in the course	Chapters 3 & 5	Slides 3	Review 3 Problems and Solution
9/3	An introduction of general principles such as Little's Law and various other "laws" and bounds for closed system, which hold with little or no assumptions	Chapters 6 & 7	Slides 4	Review 4 Problems and Solution
9/8	A first foray into Markov chain focused on finite Markov chains and their applications to simple problems.	Chapter 8 (Sections 8.1 to 8.7)
9/10					HWK #1
9/15					Quiz 1
9/17
9/22
9/24					HWK #2
9/29
10/1
10/6					Quiz 2
10/8					HWK #3
10/13	IN CLASS MIDTERM
10/15
10/20
10/22
10/27					HWK #4
10/29
11/3					Quiz 3
11/5
11/10					HWK #5
11/12
11/17
11/19
11/24					HWK #6
11/26	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
12/1
12/3	Review session	-	-	-	Quiz 4
12/15	FINAL EXAM