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Course Information

Instructor: Eli Upfal (eli <AT> cs . brown . edu). Hours: Tuesday, 3pm - 4pm

Lecture Place and Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 1:00pm - 2:15pm. The first four lectures will be held in Lubrano Conference Room.

Grad TA: Alessio Mazzetto (amazzett <AT> cs . brown . edu). Recitation Hours: Thursday 6:00-7:30pm in CIT 241

Head TA:Champ Chairattana-Apirom (rutchathon_chairattana-apirom <AT> brown.edu). Hours: Tuesday 7:00-8:00pm

TA: Akash Singirikonda (akash_singirikonda <AT> brown.edu). Hours: Monday 3:00-4:00pm

TA: George Hu (george_hu <AT> brown.edu). Hours: Wednesday 3:00-4:00pm

Email the course staff: cs1550tas <AT> lists . brown . edu

Course Links

• Syllabus

LaTeX Resources

• Overleaf is a free online editor for LaTeX.
• Wikibooks LaTeX Manual, especially the sections on mathematics, lists, importing graphics, and floats and figures.
• LaTeX tutorial videos prepared by Joe DiNoto.
• Texmaker and Kile are LaTeX editors available on department workstations, and via most linux package managers.
• MacTeX and MiKTeX make it easy to install integrated LaTeX environments on your Mac or Windows computer.
• Mathpix allows you to convert screenshots and Detexify allows you to convert drawings to LaTeX code

Textbook

The textbook for the course is Probability and Computing Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis, 2nd Edition by Michael Mitzenmacher and Eli Upfal.

Errata for the 1st Printing, Errata for the 2nd Printing

Last Updated: Jan 2019