Preface As the title implies, the focus of these notes is on ideas and algorithmic methods that are applied when evolutionary relationships are to be reconstructed from molecular sequences or other species-related data. Biological aspects like the molecular basis of evolution or methods of data acquisition and data preparation are not included. A number of textbooks have been published covering...

In this lecture, we will study some basic principles of the probabilistic method, a combinatorial tool with many applications in computer science. This method is a powerful tool for demonstrating the existence of combinatorial objects. We introduce the basic idea through several examples drawn from early lecture notes, and follow that by a detailed study of the maximum satisfiability (MAX-SAT) ...

These notes are from a lecture course Di erentialgeometrie und Lie Gruppen which has been held at the University of Vienna during the academic year again in and in WS It is not yet complete and will be enlarged during the year In this lecture course I give complete de nitions of manifolds in the beginning but beside spheres examples are treated extensively only later when the theory is develope...

These lecture notes cover two lectures from EECS 510, Algorithmic Mechanism Design, offered at Northwestern University in the Spring 2008 term. They cover the topic of frugality in mechanism design. Prerequisites for reading these lecture notes are basic understanding of algorithms and complexity as well as elementary calculus and probability theory. I will also assume that the reader has acces...

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Preface During the fall of 2004 Fan Chung Graham taught a graduate course at UCSD about the combinatorics of patterns in subsets and graphs. Class members would take turns taking notes and then write them up, this is a collection of those notes (with some light revision). We thank Fan for teaching the class and for providing some corrections/directions on the lecture notes. We would also like t...

Informal notes for a series of lectures delivered 12–23 July 1999 at the Graduate Summer Workshop on Exterior Differential Systems at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. N.B.: This version of the notes has incorporated various minor corrections kindly pointed out to me by students and others up to the date of March 16, 2013. It is still incomplete, since I have not (ye...

Introduction. These notes are based upon a day-long lecture workshop presented by Simon Thomas at the University of Ohio at Athens on November 17, 2007. The workshop served as an intensive introduction to the emerging theory of countable Borel equivalence relations. These notes are an updated and slightly expanded version of an earlier draft which was compiled from the lecture slides by Scott S...

These notes are based on lectures given at the Erwin-Schrödinger Institut in Vienna in 2006/2007 and at the 2007 School on Attractor Mechanism in Frascati. Lecture I reviews special geometry from the superconformal point of view. Lecture II discusses the black hole attractor mechanism, the underlying variational principle and black hole partition functions. Lecture III applies the formalism int...

2We present “standard” domain description and requirements prescription examplesusing the RAISE [112] Specification Language, RSL [110]. The illustrated example isthat of transportation networks.These notes shalll serve as lecture notes for my lectures at Uppsala, Nov.8-19,2010. The present document is the ordinary “book-form”-like notes. A separatedocument, compiled...