| Date | Presenter(s) | Topic | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Jan 15 | Hung Ngo | Linear programming basics | W&S Appendix A |
| Thu Jan 17 | Primer on approximation algorithms | W&S Chapter 1 | |
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| Tue Jan 29 | Alex and Suchismit | Greedy algorithms and local search | W&S 2.1 (Scheduling jobs with deadline on a single machine), 2.2 (The k-center problem), 2.6 (Minimum degree spanning tree), 2.7 (Edge coloring) |
| Thu Jan 31 | |||
| Tue Feb 05 | Qi and Yingbo | Rounding data and dynamic programming | W&S 3.1 (The knapsack problem), 3.2 (Scheduling jobs on identical paralell machines), 3.3 (The binpacking problem) |
| Thu Feb 07 | |||
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| Thu Feb 14 | Devansh and Mahmoud | Deterministic rounding of linear programs | W&S 4.1 (Minimizing the sum of completion times on a single machine) 4.2 (Minimizing the weighted sum of completion times on a single machine) 4.3 (The ellipsoid method) 4.4 (The prize-collecting Steiner tree problem) 4.6 (The bin-packing problem) |
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| Tue Mar 12 | Spring break! | ||
| Thu Mar 14 | Spring break! | ||
| Tue Mar 19 | Hung Q. Ngo | Tail and concentration inequalities | 5.10 (Chernoff bound), Hung will present this section My lecture notes from CSE 694. |
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| Tue Mar 26 | Andreas and Aman | Random Sampling and randomized rounding of linear programs | W&S 5.1 (Max-SAT and Max-CUT), 5.2 (Derandomization), 5.3 (Using biased coin), 5.4 (Randomized rounding), 5.5 (Best of two), 5.6 (Non-linear randomized rounding), 5.7 (Prize-collecting Steiner tree, again), |
| Thu Mar 28 | Rathin | More on random sampling and randomized rounding | 5.11 (Integer multicommodity flows), 5.12 (Random sampling and coloring dense 3-colorable graphs), |
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| Thu Apr 04 | Di and Liang | Chapter 6 | |
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