Discrete Structures - CMSC 250/250H, Spring 2012

• 2/3 - Course announcements will now be posted on Piazza. Please check the forum and your email to stay current!

• Lectures
• section 010x: TuTh......11:00am-12:15pm (CSI 3117)
• section 020x: TuTh......12:30pm- 1:45pm (CSI 3117)
• cmsc 250h: TuTh...... 2:00pm- 3:15pm (CSI 3118)
• Instructors
• Michelle Hugue
• Email: meesh{at}cs.umd.edu
• Office: 1125 AV Williams
• Clyde Kruskal
• Email: kruskal{at}cs.umd.edu
• Office: 3215 AV Williams
• Book(s)
• Discrete Mathematics and Applications (Epp) - recommended
• Online PDF version (subject to sudden disappearance)
• Course Policy
• Short Syllabus
• Long Syllabus (still in the works, for now see the one from Spring 2011)
• University Academic Dishonesty Policy
• NEW Excused Absence Policy

• Graded assignments will include:
  • Homework
  • Assigned weekly, due at the beginning of discussion on Wednesdays
  • Quizzes
  • One quiz per week, at the beginning of discussion on Mondays
  • Midterms(during normal lecture times in normal rooms)
  • First exam: Thursday, March 8
  • Second exam: Thursday, April 12
  • Final Exam
  • Tuesday, May 15, 4-6pm
  • 010x - ARM 0135, 020x and H - ARM 0126
  • The final will be comprehensive!
• Grades will be computed in two separate ways, and your final grade will be the maximum of the two:
  1. As defined in the syllabus: 13% quizzes, 13% hws, 44% exams, 30% final
  2. By dropping the lowest of your two exams, and then compensating for the extra percentage on the final: 13% quizzes, 13% hws, 22% best exam, 52% final

• All office hours will be held in the TA room, also known as 1112 AV Williams.
• Please note that the TAs prefer that you use these cs.umd.edu email addresses to contact them, instead of those listed on the syllabus! Thanks!



Section(s)	TA	Email	Office Hours
0101, 0102	Anupam Guha	aguha{at}cs.umd.edu	Tu/W 5pm-6:30pm
0103	Sana Malik	maliks{at}cs.umd.edu	M/W 11am-12:30pm
0201, 0202, 0203	Greg Benjamin	gregben{at}cs.umd.edu	M/F 2pm-3:30pm
250h	Yuk Hei (Tom) Chan	yhchan{at}cs.umd.edu	M 9:30am-11am, Tu 3:30pm-5pm
grader	Rahmatri (Diko) Mardiko	mardiko{at}cs.umd.edu	Tu/Thu 11am-12:30pm
grader	Judith Beaudoin	jbeaudoi{at}terpmail.umd.edu	Tu 12:30pm-3:20pm
grader	Andrew Fichman	afichman{at}terpmail.umd.edu	Tu/Thu 2pm-3:30pm

• Piazza
• This is a place for you to ask and answer questions of your fellow students, although the TAs and instructors will also be around to moderate and clarify difficult points. Go ahead, help each other learn! But don't cheat, because we will catch you.
• Restricted Content
• Lecture slides, homeworks, homework solutions (password-protected)