General Information


Meets Monday, Wednesday, Friday
1:25-2:15pm
Kimball B11
 
Instructor Sergei Artemov
318 Upson Hall, 255-4938
artemov@cs.cornell.edu, sna2@cornell.edu
office hours MW 2:30-3:30pm, and by appointment
 
Teaching Assistants Ke Wang - grading czar - 4162 Upson Hall, kewang@cs.cornell.edu, 255-2219
Jon Ludwig - grading czar - jml44@cornell.edu, 279-9389
Charles Kimberly - grading records - ctk7@cornell.edu
André Allavena - solutions - andre@cs.cornell.edu
Ryan Williams - solutions - rrw9@cornell.edu
Travis Ortogero - ortogero@cs.cornell.edu
Chang Won Choi - cc144@cornell.edu
Michael Priscott - priscott@cs.cornell.edu
Nick Hamatake - www - nh39@cornell.edu
Evan Moran - www - 492 Rhodes Hall, evan@cs.cornell.edu, 254-8833
 
Office Hours Sergei (instructor) - Monday and Wednesday, 2:30-3:30pm in 318 Upson Hall
Ke (TA, grading czar) - Monday, 3:30-4:30pm and Wednesday, 10:30-11:30am in 4162 Upson Hall
Nick (TA) - Thursday, 4:30-6:00pm in 328B Upson Hall

[Note: office hours after May 5 will be somewhat different.]

 
Review Sessions Monday-Thursday, 7:00-9:00pm (locations listed below)

  • Monday - 111 Upson - Charles, André
  • Tuesday - 111 Upson - Travis, Chang Won
  • Wednesday - 206 Hollister - Ryan, Michael
  • Thursday - 111 Upson - Jon, Evan
  • Individual tutoring will be available during these review sessions and by special appointment. You are welcome, and encouraged, to attend whichever review sessions and office hours you find convenient.

    [Note: the review sessions after May 5 will not follow the above schedule.]

     
    Syllabus The course syllabus can be found on the handouts page, and the official course description can be found in the university's course catalog.
     
    Textbook Kenneth H. Rosen, Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (4th edition)
     
    Grading
    • There will be two evening prelims (March 6 and April 10) and a final exam (May 18). All exams are closed-book.
    • There will be weekly homework assignments. Normally, homework assignments are issued in three consecutive installments (on Wednesday, Friday, and Monday) and are due the next Friday:

      (a sample calendar fragment showing the 3 installments and the corresponding due date)
      [i.e., the homework is usually due four days after you get the last installment.]
    • Students are free to discuss the homework assignments but the write-up must be independent work.
    • Homeworks will be collected in class on Fridays before lecture; no extensions will be granted. However, for each student, the two worst homeworks will be disregarded.
    • The course grade will be determined by counting the two prelims (roughly) 40%, final exam 40%, and homeworks 20%.
    • Grading complaints should be directed to the grading czars, Ke Wang and Jon Ludwig. You must contact them within one week of the date on which the assignment was handed back.
     
    Newsgroup There is a newsgroup cornell.class.cs280 established for this course. It is intended for CS280-related questions and discussion. Feel free to bring up interesting problems, voice complaints, make suggestions, give advice, etc., but please do NOT post homework solutions (not even partial solutions).

    You can learn more about newsgroups here.