====== Fun With Algorithms in English ======
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|392189 |Thévenin, Jahn  |Winter 2013 | Wed. 12-14 | U10-146 | [[http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd?id=37775242|ekvv]] |

===== Schedule =====

| **Date** | **Topic** | **Name** | **Document** |
|16 Oct. 2013 | No seminar | --- | --- |
| 23 Oct. 2013 | Preliminaries | Katharina Jahn | --- |
| 30 Oct. 2013 | Lecture: How to read an article? | Annelyse Thévenin | {{ 420lectureReadPaper.pdf | Slides }}|
| 20 Nov. 2013 | Talk | Aron Weihrauch | [[http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/Papers/urinal.pdf|The urinal Problem]] |
| 11 Dec. 2013 | Report | Aron Weihrauch | [[http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~kranakis/Papers/urinal.pdf|The urinal Problem]] |

===== Topics =====
Goals of the seminar: 


  * independent reading and understanding of scientific texts (in English) 
  * preparation and presentation of a talk, 
  * composition of a short written report (as a practice for the bachelor thesis) 
The students need to give a talk and prepare a written report based on a scientific publication. (Alternatively, it is possible to do only the written report.) The topic of the talk/report should be recent and/or funny/interesting algorithmic problems and their solutions. 

The students are encouraged to suggest their own topics. Further suggestions are from different areas of algorithmics: 


  * biological/medical algorithms 
  * biometric algorithms 
  * algorithms for data compression 
  * distributed algorithms 
  * geometric algorithms/graph algorithms 
  * mobile algorithms 
  * optimization algorithms 
  * string algorithms 
  * combinatoric algorithms 
  * cryptographic algorithms 
  * algorithms to solve games (Lemmings, Sudoku, Tetris,etc.) 
  * network algorithms 
  * robotics algorithms 
  * algorithms on cellular automata (Game of Life, Ant games, Wator) 
  * ... 
Other possibilities are publications of the conference "Fun with Algorithms", or other algorithms from the literature. 

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