Algorithms Seminar/Fall09
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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
- Arvind Agarwal, 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 (part or section 9.5.3) | Jiarong | |
| Oct 21 | Primal Dual I: Steiner Trees, Facility Location (part I, part II, part III) | Arvind | |
| Oct 28 | Primal Dual II: Steiner Tree, Facility Location (part I, part II, part III) | Suresh | |
| Nov 4 | Approximations via Tree Embeddings (and Bartal's original paper) | Jags | |
| Nov 11 | MCMC | Adam | |
| Nov 18 | Sparsest Cut and Metric Embeddings I | John | |
| Nov 25 | Sparsest Cut and Metric Embeddings II | John | |
| Dec 2 | SDPs I: Basics and MAX CUT | Piyush | |
| Dec 9 | SDPs II: Graph Coloring | Seth |
