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04.11.2020
In view of the current health situation, we have decided to switch our tutorials to an all-online format. We tried an in-person tutorial yesterday: the contact-tracing QR codes did not work for everyone, the room was hard to ventilate properly, and some students expressed their concerns. Once the lockdown period is over, we will re-evaluate this decision and consider going back to in-person tutorials. We are sorry to make this sudden change, we hope you understand. We must all be flexible in dealing with the ever-changing restrictions.Instead of the current in-person tutorials, starting next week (10.11.2020) we will conduct the tutorial sessions on BBB at this link (no sign up or app needed) at the same time as before, 10:00 - 11:30 on Tuesdays. To make it interactive, we will use the whiteboard and shared notes functions of BBB. We encourage you to use these as well as your microphone so that we can recreate the tutorial setting as much as possible.
If you have comments, feel free to use the general forum on the Moodle page.
30.10.2020
In view of the current situation we have decided that you should FOLLOW THE LECTURES THROUGH THE LIVESTREAM, and not come to the lecture in person until further notice. The TUTORIALS WILL STILL HAPPEN IN PERSON though!27.10.2020
There are now videos of the material you must refresh before the course here.26.10.2020
The lectures will be livestreamed here and the videos will then be available to (re)watch.23.10.2020
IMPORTANT: Due to the pandemic, this term it is particularly important that you have material to work from home. For this reason I have decided to put online a version of the lecture notes containing solutions to the exercises, even though the solutions in the later chapters are often only sketched and have not been yet revised. Please be aware that these solutions are bound to contain contain typos, notation inconsistencies, and minor mistakes. The version can be found under "Material", and replaces the old version.23.10.2020
This year's winter term is shorter than usual, and so the structure of the course is going to change a bit. Usually, the first three weeks are devoted to refreshing and deepening contents that you already learned in your Bachelor course on Automata Theory. (For TUM students this course is the first half of IN0011 "Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science", also known as THEO; for other students if could be a course on Formal Languages and Automta, or even a course on Compilers.) This year we (a) leave most of the "deepening" out, and (b) request that you refresh some material on your own.The material you're expected to refresh is:
- Automata Classes and Conversions: (Chapter 2 of the lecture notes)
- DFA Minimization (Sections 3.1, 3.2 (without section 3.2.3) and 3.4 of Chapter 3 of the lecture notes)
During the first week of the course we will also quickly revise these topics, but in the second week we will already start with Chapter 4. The first two tutorials (on November 3 and November 10) will be on automata classes, conversions, and minimization.
Under "Exercises" you can also find exercise sheets of past years (typically the first three sheets).