Course Info

Last updated: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:14:08 -0400

This page lists basic information about the course such as people and times.

(All emails are UMB addresses)

1 Staff

Instructor: Stephen Chang (email: Stephen.Chang)

TA: Sean Rasku-Casas (email: Sean.RaskuCasas001)

2 Lecture

Time: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EST (Boston time)

Here’s a Google Calendar with class times, iCal format (requires UMB login).

First Lecture: Tuesday September 6, 2022

Last Lecture: Tuesday December 13, 2022

Location: Wheatley W01-0034

See also Lecture Policy.

3 Office Hours

To accommodate the most students, we will have both in-person and virtual office hours.

Office hours will be held weekly in-person, in McCormack Building, 3rd Floor, during these times:

• Mon 4-5pm EST (Sean) (room 0139)

• Thu 12:30-2:00pm EST (Prof Chang), room 0201-03

Office hours will be held weekly via Zoom during these times:

• Fri 12:30-2:00pm EST (Prof Chang) (see Blackboard for Zoom link)

Drop-ins are fine, but emailing in advance if you can would be helpful.

These will usually be group meetings, but one-on-ones are available upon request.

4 Textbook

Material from the course will be drawn from the the following textbooks:

• Michael Sipser. Introduction to the Theory of Computation, 3rd edition. 2012, Cengage.

• Hopcroft, Motwani, Ullman. Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (link to archive.org), 3rd edition. 2007, Pearson.

In general, the lectures and slides are self-contained, but for reference I list book chapters to accompany each lecture.

Some students have discovered that learn more from lecture if they do the reading before the class meets.

5 Homework

Homework will be usually assigned weekly according to the following schedule.

Homework out: Mondays 12:00 am EST

Homework due: Sundays 11:59 pm EST

See also Homework Submission Policy.

6 Exams

There are no exams for this course this semester.