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SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions
2 Nondeterminism, Closure Properties, Regular Expressions ↔ FA
3 Regular Pumping Lemma, Context Free Languages
4 Pushdown Automata, CFG ↔ PDA
5 CF Pumping Lemma, Turing Machines
6 TM Variants, Church-Turing Thesis
7 Decision Problems for Automata and Grammars
8 Undecidability
9 Reducibility
10 Linearly Bounded Automata, PCP
11 Recursion Theorem
12 Time Complexity
13 P and NP, SAT, Poly-time Reducibility
14 Midterm Exam
15 NP-Completeness
16 Cook-Levin Theorem
17 Space Complexity
18 PSPACE, TQBF, Savitch's Theorem
19 Games, Generalized Geography
20 L and NL, NL=coNL
21 Hierarchy Theorems
22 Provably Intractable Problems, Oracles
23 Probabilistic Computation, BPP
24 Probabilistic Computation, contd.
25 Interactive Proof Systems, IP
26 Final Exam