Academic Catalog

IAM506 COMBINATORICS

Course Code: 9700506
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Institute Of Applied Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.Dr. OÐUZ YAYLA
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Algebraic Enumeration Methods: Bijections. generating functions. free monoids. Lagrange inversion. multisets and partitions. Inclusion-Exclusion. Mobius inversion. symmetric functions. Asymptotic Enumeration: Estimation of sums. formal power series. elementary estimates for convergent generating functions. analytical generating functions. singularities. Darboux’s theorem. algorithmic and automated asymptotics. External set systems: Intersecting families. families with prescribed intersection sizes. s-wise t- intersection families. covering number. Computational complexity.