Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-2:30pm, Annenberg 105.
Recitation: TBD.
| January 5th | Probabilistic inequalities and application to streaming algorithms. | |
| January 7th | Chernoff bound; the power of two choices. | |
| January 8th | Recitation: Bernstein and other concentration inequalities | |
| January 12th | No class (Thomas away). Will find makeup date. | |
| January 14th | No class (Thomas away). Will find makeup date. | |
| January 8th | Recitation: Estimating higher frequency moments in the data stream model | |
| January 19th | The experts/multiplicative weights algorithm and its analysis | |
| January 21st | Applications of the experts algorithm | |
| January 22nd | Recitation: Review of linear programming and duality. | |
| January 26th | Semidefinite programming | |
| January 28th | Solving SDPs using multiplicative weights | |
| January 29th | Recitation: Applications of semidefinite programming in optimization. | |
| February 2nd | Fast approximation algorithms for MAXCUT and MAXQP | |
| February 4th | Dimension reduction | |
| February 5th | Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss and applications | |
| February 9th | Spectral methods: graph properties from the adjacency matrix | |
| February 11th | Random walks on graphs | |
| February 12th | Recitation: The spectra of random graphs. | |
| February 16th | Volume estimation | |
| February 18th | Expanders and derandomization | |
| February 23rd | Solving linear systems of equations | |
| January 25th | Solving Laplacian systems | |
| January 26th | Recitation: Derandomization via the method of conditional expectations. | |
| March 1st | Spectral sparsifiers | |
| March 3rd | PAC learning | |
| March 8th | Analysis of Boolean functions |