CDS course discussion, Apr 2014

Core Courses

Track	Fall	Winter	Spring
Optimization and linear algebra	Linear Algebra & Applied Operator Theory ACM 104/CDS 201 (Beck, Murray, Owhadi) Vector spaces, including Banach and Hilbert spaces Linear operators, dual spaces, decompositions	Introduction to Optimization ACM 113 (Doyle, Owhadi, Tropp) Convex analysis Linear programming/duality
Stochastic systems	Introduction to Stochastic Processes and Modeling ACM/EE 116 (Hassibi, Owhadi, Tropp)	Markov Chains, Discrete Stochastic Processes and Applications ACM 216 (Owhadi, Tropp)
Information systems IDS 130ab	Information and complexity CS/EE/Ma 129a (Abu-Mostafa, Winfree) Information theory and coding Finite state automata, Turing machines, computability Data compression Note: EE 126 is an alternative to this course for people who have already seen automata, computability, etc	Information and complexity CS/EE/Ma 129b (Abu-Mostafa, Winfree) Channel coding, capacity and rate theorem Time complexity of algorithms; P vs NP Formal logic and provability
Decision Sytems IDS 150	Modern Control Theory CDS 212 (Doyle, Low, Murray) Dynamics and stability in discrete and continuous time Uncertainty and robustness Fundamental limits: Bode, Shannon, Bode/Shannon	Algorithmic Game Theory CS/Ec 241
Data-driven modeling IDS 140ab	Learning systems CS/CNS/EE 156 (Abu-Mostafa, Krause)	Graphical models CS 155 (Krause)