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1. Jan 18 -- 20
  • A Linear Algebra Primer (supplementary)
  • An NP-Completeness Primer (supplementary)
  • Introduction to linear programming (last updated on Sun Feb 27).
    • 2. Jan 25 -- 27
    3. Feb 01 -- 03
    4. Feb 08 -- 10
  • Intro. to Approximation Algorithms (supplementary)
  • LP relaxation and rounding (last updated on Feb 15)
  • The Primal-Dual Method (last updated on Feb 19).
    • 5. Feb 15 -- 17
    6. Feb 22 -- 24
    7. Mar 01 -- 03
    8. Mar 08 -- 10
    9. Mar 15 -- 17 No classes this week. Spring Break. Yeah!
    10. Mar 22 -- 24
  • More LP-based approximation algorithms.
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    11. Mar 29 -- 31

    		 Dual-fitting analysis
    12. Apr 05 -- 07
    13. Apr 12 -- 14 Sanjeev Arora, Approximation schemes for NP-hard geometric optimization problems: A survey. [ postscript]
    14. Apr 19 -- 21 Sanjeev Arora, Polynomial-time Approximation Schemes for Euclidean TSP and other Geometric Problems. Journal of the ACM 45(5) 753-782, 1998. [postscript]
    15. Apr 26 -- 28

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