You can jump to the upcoming week or to the (tentative) future weeks.
There’s also a Google calendar you can check and/or subscribe to with all the lectures, office hours, and due dates for the assignments.
Past weeks
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Assignments | Reading |
| 1 | Jan 12 Lecture 0 Introduction |
Jan 14 Lecture 1 Software and Hardware Basics |
Assignment 0 Released | Appendix 1 Appendix 2 |
Upcoming week
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Assignments | Reading |
| 2 | Jan 19 MLK day, no class |
Jan 21 Lecture 2 Realities of Concurrency |
Assignment 0 Due Assignment 1 Released | Chapter 1 |
Future weeks
Tentative
| Week | Monday | Wednesday | Assignments | Reading |
| 3 | Jan 26 Lecture 3 Realities of Concurrency |
Jan 28 Lecture 4 Mutual Exclusion |
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 |
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| 4 | Feb 02 Lecture 5 Concurrent Objects |
Feb 04 Lecture 6 The Java Memory Model |
Assignment 1 Due | Chapter 3 Oracle Corp. JSR 133: Java Memory Model and Thread Specification Revision. 2009 |
| 5 | Feb 09 Lecture 7 The Java Memory Model |
Feb 11 Lecture 8 Spin Locks |
Assignment 2 Released | Oracle Corp. JSR 133: Java Memory Model and Thread Specification Revision. 2009 Chapter 3 Chapter 7 |
| 6 | Feb 16 Lecture 9 Spin Locks |
Feb 18 Lecture 10 Double-check locking, RMW locks |
Assignment 2 Due | Chapter 7 |
| 7 | Feb 23 Lecture 11 Consensus |
Feb 25 Lecture 12 Review for the Midterm |
Chapter 5 | |
| 8 | Mar 02 Midterm |
Mar 04 Lecture 13 Blocking Lists |
Assignment 3 Released | Chapter 9 |
| 9 | Mar 09 Lecture 14 Midterm Solution |
Mar 11 Lecture 15 Blocking Lists |
Assignment 3 Due | Chapter 9 |
| 10 | Mar 16 Lecture 16 Lazy lists / Wait-Notify |
Mar 18 Lecture 17 Task Scheduling |
Assignment 4 Released | Chapter 8 Chapter 16 |
| 11 | Mar 23 Spring Break, no class |
Mar 25 Spring Break, no class |
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| 12 | Mar 30 Lecture 18 Task Scheduling |
Apr 01 Lecture 19 Nonblocking progress and Nonblocking lists |
Assignment 4 Due | Chapter 16 |
| 13 | Apr 06 Lecture 20 Queues and the ABA Problem |
Apr 08 Lecture 21 Queues and the ABA Problem, Concurrent Stacks |
Assignment 5 Released | Chapter 6 Chapter 10 |
| 14 | Apr 13 Lecture 22 Concurrent Hashing |
Apr 15 Lecture 23 TBD |
Chapter 10 Chapter 13 |
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| 15 | Apr 20 Lecture 24 Transactional Memory |
Apr 22 Lecture 25 Hardware Transactional Memory and Concurrency in Other Languages |
Assignment 5 Due | Chapter 18 |
| 16 | Apr 27 Lecture 26 Review for the Final Exam |
Apr 29 Lecture 27 Conclusion and Research Topics |
Calendar
Jan 19