Schedule
The lectures will be held on Tuesdays at 12-14 in lecture hall T1. The lectures will start on 11.9. Lectures concerning the programming exercises will be held in lecture hall T2 on some Tuesdays at 14-16. See the schedule below for details.
Also some hands-on exercise help sessions will be held in Niksula. The times and locations will be announced later in the course newsgroup.
This is the initial schedule. Changes are possible!
| Date and time | Location | Event | Description | Material |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.9. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Introduction | [Ben-Ari] chapter 1 |
| 18.9. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Concurrency model | [Ben-Ari] chapter 2 |
| 25.9. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Critical section (CS) | [Ben-Ari] chapter 3 |
| 2.10. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Semaphores | [Ben-Ari] chapters 6.1-6.8 |
| 2.10. 14-16 | T2 | Exercise info | The first programming assignment is published. | |
| 9.10. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Verification | [Ben-Ari] chapter 4 |
| 16.10. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Advanced critical sections and semaphores | [Ben-Ari] chapters 5, 6.9-6.11 |
| 22.10. 23:59 | Deadline | Deadline of the first programming assignment | ||
| 23.10. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Monitors | [Ben-Ari] chapter 7 |
| 23.10. 14-16 | T2 | Exercise info | The second programming assignment is published. | |
| 30.10. | Mid-term break | |||
| 6.11. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Message passing | [Ben-Ari] chapter 8 |
| 6.11. 14-16 | T2 | Exercise info | Concurrency in Java 1 | [Goetz] |
| 12.11. 23:59 | Deadline | Deadline of the second programming assignment | ||
| 13.11. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Tuple spaces | [Ben-Ari] chapter 9 |
| 13.11. 14-16 | T2 | Exercise info | The third programming assignment is published. | |
| 20.11. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Distributed algorithms | [Ben-Ari] chapter 10 |
| 20.11. 14-16 | T2 | Exercise info | Concurrency in Java 2 | [Goetz] |
| 27.11. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Global Properties | [Ben-Ari] chapter 11 |
| 27.11. | No exercise info | The exercise info (Concurrency in Java 3) will not be arranged. | ||
| 3.12. 23:59 | Deadline | Deadline of the third programming assignment | ||
| 4.12. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Consensus | [Ben-Ari] chapter 12 |
| 11.12. 12-14 | T1 | Lecture | Spare time | |
| 17.12. 9-12 | Halls E, D | Examination |
- [Ben-Ari]
- M. Ben-Ari: Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley 2006 (Obligatory reading)
- [Goetz]
- Brian Goetz et al.: Java Concurrency in Practice, Addison-Wesley 2006 (Recommended Reading)