Algorithms Seminar/Fall09
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| Sep 9 || Greedy algorithms: [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture03.pdf Set Cover, Makespan] || [http://apollonius.cs.utah.edu/suresh/files/mediawiki/fall09/problems-2.pdf Exercises] || Parasaran | | Sep 9 || Greedy algorithms: [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture03.pdf Set Cover, Makespan] || [http://apollonius.cs.utah.edu/suresh/files/mediawiki/fall09/problems-2.pdf Exercises] || Parasaran | ||
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| - | | Sep 16 || Dynamic Programming: [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture04.pdf Knapsack], [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture05.pdf Bin Packing]|| || Avishek | + | | Sep 16 || Dynamic Programming: [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture04.pdf Knapsack], [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture05.pdf Bin Packing] [http://apollonius.cs.utah.edu/suresh/files/mediawiki/fall09/vazi-chap9.pdf Vazirani book Chap 9]|| || Avishek |
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| Sep 23 || Local Search I: MAX CUT, Facility Location (part [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture07.pdf I], [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture08.pdf II])|| || Ruihong | | Sep 23 || Local Search I: MAX CUT, Facility Location (part [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture07.pdf I], [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~shuchi/courses/880-S07/scribe-notes/lecture08.pdf II])|| || Ruihong | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 15 September 2009
Time: Wednesday 1:25-2:45pm
Place: LCR (MEB 3147)
Readings
- Approximation Algorithms Course @ Wisconsin
- Approximation Algorithms, Vijay Vazirani
Participants
- Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Assistant Professor, School of Computing
- Parasaran Raman, PhD Student, School of Computing
- John Moeller, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Raj Varma Kommaraju, MS Student, School of Computing
- Adam R. Teichert, MS Student, School of Computing
- Avishek Saha, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Seth Juarez, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Jiarong Jiang, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Piyush Rai, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Jagadeesh J, PhD Student, School of Computing
- Ruihong Huang, PhD Student, School of Computing
Schedule
| Date | Paper(s) | Problems | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2 | Basic methods: Vertex Cover and metric TSP, and Steiner Tree | Suresh | |
| Sep 9 | Greedy algorithms: Set Cover, Makespan | Exercises | Parasaran |
| Sep 16 | Dynamic Programming: Knapsack, Bin Packing Vazirani book Chap 9 | Avishek | |
| Sep 23 | Local Search I: MAX CUT, Facility Location (part I, II) | Ruihong | |
| Sep 30 | Local Search II: MAX CUT, Facility Location (part I, II) . Also see these simplified notes | Raj | |
| Oct 7 | LP rounding: Congestion | Jiarong | |
| Oct 21 | Primal Dual I: Steiner Trees, Facility Location (part I, part II, part III) | Jagadeesh | |
| Oct 28 | Primal Dual II: Steiner Tree, Facility Location (part I, part II, part III) | ||
| Nov 4 | Approximations via Tree Embeddings | ||
| Nov 11 | Sparsest Cut and Metric Embeddings I | (John, unless someone else wants it) | |
| Nov 18 | Sparsest Cut and Metric Embeddings II | John | |
| Nov 25 | SDPs I: Basics and MAX CUT | Piyush | |
| Dec 2 | SDPs II: Graph Coloring | Seth | |
| Dec 9 | MCMC | Adam |
