Class: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9-10:30am, Annenberg 243.
Recitation: Mondays 11am - 12pm, Annenberg 314.
| January 5th | Streaming algorithms and basic probabilistic inequalities. | Notes |
| January 10th | The Chernoff bound and amplification via median-of-means. | |
| January 12th | Applications of the Chernoff bound: the power of two choices; the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. | |
| January 12th | Recitation: Streaming algorithms. | |
| January 17th | Online learning and the multiplicative weights algorithm. | |
| January 19th | Applications of the multiplicative weights algorithm. | |
| January 23rd | Recitation: review of linear programming and duality. | |
| January 24th | Semidefinite programs. | |
| January 26th | The matrix multiplicative weights update algorithm. | |
| January 30th | Recitation: The Lovasz theta number | |
| January 31st | Solving SDPs using matrix multiplicative weights | |
| Ferbuary 2nd | Rounding the SDP relaxation for MAXQP | |
| February 3rd | Recitation: Goemans-Williamson rounding for MAXCUT | |
| Ferbuary 7th | Spectral graph theory: spectrum of the Laplacian | |
| Ferbuary 9th | Proof of Cheeger's inequality; Random walks on graphs | |
| February 10th | Recitation | |
| Ferbuary 14th | Estimating the volume of a convex body | |
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| February 17th | Recitation | |
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| February 24th | Recitation | |
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| March 3rd | Recitation | |
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