CSC 2517 -- Discrete Mathematical Models of Sentence Structure
Fall 2025
Index of this document
Contact information
Instructor: Gerald Penn
-
Office: PT 283A (St. George campus)
-
Tel: 978-7390
-
Email: gpenn@cs.utoronto.ca
Back to the index
Meeting times
-
Lectures: T 3-5, UC B203
- Lectures will be simulcast on Zoom. See Quercus or contact the instructor for further details.
Back to the index
Presented Readings
Additional Readings for the Lectures
Back to the index
Tentative course outline
- Mechanistic Interpretation of LLMs
- Algebraic Topology
- Algebraic Invariance
- Geometric Deep Learning
Back to the index
Calendar of important course-related events
| Date |
Event |
| Tue, 2nd September |
First meeting |
| Wed, 17th September |
Last day to add course |
| Mon, 27th October |
Last day to drop course |
| Tue, 28th October |
No meeting (FAS reading week) |
| Mon, 3rd November |
Paper proposals due |
| Tue, 25th November |
Last meeting |
| Tue, 23rd December |
Term papers/projects due |
Back to the index
Evaluation
Your final mark will be determined by a term paper/project, and a presentation
of a paper in class. The relative weights of these components towards
the final mark are shown in the table below:
| Class presentation |
30% |
| Term paper/project |
70% |
Back to the index
Announcements
In this space, you will find announcements related to the course. Please
check this space at least weekly.
-
1 September: This seminar will observe
the A&S reading week.
-
1 September: RECOMMENDED PREREQUISITES: CSC 2501.
Back to the index
Gerald Penn, 11 September,
2025
This web-page was adapted from the web-page for another course,
created by Vassos Hadzilacos.