Tue, Thu
2:50-4:05 PM
LSRC D243
Course CPS296.2  Spring 2007
Lectures
#DateTopic
Linear Programming
1 1/11 Introduction, simplex method
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sam Slee
2 1/16 Duality, Ellipsoid method
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sam Slee
3 01/18 Interior point method, Megiddo's algorithm
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Jen Burge
4 01/23 Randomized algorithms for LP's
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Jen Burge
Parametric Searching
5 01/25 Basic algorithm
Survey Paper [.pdf] (For lectures 5 and 6.)
6 01/30 Extensions and variants
See above.
- 02/01 No class - Snow Day
7 02/06 Multi-dimensional Parametric Searching
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Nihshanka Debroy
8 02/08 Randomized techniques
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Shashi Ganjugunte
ε-approximation and ε-nets
9 02/13 Basic definitions, applications
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Shashi Ganjugunte
10 02/15 Deterministic algorithms, discrepancy, cuttings
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Shashi Ganjugunte
Core Sets
11 02/19 Approximating directional width, extent measures
Survey Paper [.pdf] (For lectures 11 and 12.)
12 02/20 Coresets for polynomials, kinetic geometry
◊ See above.
Shape Fitting and Clustering
13 02/22 1-center, 1-median, SVD
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sharath Kumar
14 02/27 k-center, k-median
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sharath Kumar
15 03/01 Spectral clustering, projective clustering
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sam Slee
Geometric Packing and Covering
16 03/06 Greedy and randomized algorithms
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Albert Yu
17 03/08 Art gallery problems
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Shashi Ganjugunte
Network Design
18 03/20 Spanners
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Jen Burge
19 03/22 Well-separated pair decomposition
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Sharath Kumar
20 03/27 Minimum-weight matching
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Albert Yu
21 03/29 Arora's TSP algorithm
Survey Paper [.pdf] (For lectures 21 and 22.)
22 04/03 Arora's TSP algorithm (cont.)
See above.
Shape Matching
23 04/05 Hausdorff and Frechet distance
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Nihshanka Debroy
24 04/10 ICP and EMD
(Guest Lecture: Jeff Phillips)
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Nihshanka Debroy
Embeddings
25 04/12 Johnson Lindenstrauus Lemma
(Guest Lecture: Hai Yu)
Lecture Notes [.pdf] Scribe: Albert Yu
26 04/17 Embeddings into trees, Euclidean spaces
(Guest Lecture: Hai Yu)
◊ No Lecture Notes