CSU 677: Honors Adjunct Project

Below is a list of suggested projects for the adjunct.  Each student should select a project topic, survey the relevant literature in the area, and is required to deliver:
  1. A report of at most 4 pages (11-12 pt font size, at least 1 inch margin on all sides, single-spacing). This is due Thursday, April 14.
  2. Two 20-minute presentations on selected results in the area.  One on Thursday, March 31, and the other on Thursday, April 14.

Potential project topics

You are also welcome to select a topic of your own and we can talk about it.

The structure of the Web graph and its applications to information retrieval: In this project, the student will survey recent work on analyzing the structure of the Web, and discuss algorithms that retrieve Web information using this graph structure.  Some relevant references are:
Local balancing algorithms for multicommodity flow and Internet routing: This project studies a novel local balancing technique for solving multicommodity flow, and its applications to Internet routing.  Some relevant references are:
Link reversal routing: This project studies a simple technique called link reversal, which has applications to routing in highly dynamic networks such as mobile ad hoc networks.  Some relevant references are:
Sequencing the Human Genome: This project concerns algorithmic problems that arise in sequencing and analyzing the human genome.  Some relevant references are:
Error-correcting codes: This project will cover selected techniques from the vast area of error-correcting codes, which are used extensively to implement reliable communication and storage.  There are a number of texts on this topic, so the project needs to identity some focus area.