This note
explains core material in data structures and algorithm design, and also helps
students prepare for research in the field of algorithms. Topics covered
includes: Splay Trees, Amortized Time for Splay Trees, Maintaining Disjoint
Sets, Binomial heaps, F-heap, Minimum Spanning Trees, Fredman-Tarjan MST
Algorithm, Light Approximate Shortest Path Trees, Matchings, Hopcroft-Karp
Matching Algorithm, Two Processor Scheduling, Network Flow - Maximum Flow
Problem, The Max Flow Problem and Max-Flow Algorithm.