6.854 Fall 2020 Lecture Notes
Saturday, December 5, 2020, 09:00 PM
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The lectures are given according to this calendar from the official course website.
| # | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed, Sep. 2 | Course introduction. Fibonacci heaps. MST. |
| 2 | Fri, Sep. 4 | Fibonacci heaps. MST. Persistent Data Structures Intro. |
| 3 | Wed, Sep. 9 | Persistent Data Structures. Splay trees intro. |
| 4 | Fri, Sep. 11 | Splay trees. |
| 5 | Mon, Sep. 14 | Dial’s Algorithm. Tries. Multi-level buckets. |
| 6 | Wed, Sep. 16 | van Emde Boas Queues and Hashing |
| 7 | Fri, Sep. 18 | Universal Hashing. Perfect Hashing. Begin Network Flows. |
| 8 | Mon, Sep. 21 | Network Flows: Charaterization. Augmenting Paths. Max Flow Min Cut Theorem. |
| 9 | Wed, Sep. 23 | Network Flows: Maximum augmenting path. Capacity Scaling. |
| 10 | Fri, Sep. 25 | Network Flows: Strongly polynomial algorithms. Blocking Flows. |
| 11 | Mon, Sep. 28 | Min-Cost Flows: Feasible prices. |
| 12 | Wed, Sep. 30 | Min-Cost Flows |
| 13 | Fri, Oct. 2 | Finish Min-Cost Flows and Introduction to Linear Programming. |
| 14 | Mon, Oct. 5 | Linear Programming: Structure of Optima. |
| 15 | Wed, Oct. 7 | Linear Programming: Strong Duality. |
| 16 | Fri, Oct. 9 | Linear Programming: Strong Duality and Duality Applications. |
| 17 | Tue, Oct. 13 | Linear Programming: Duality Applications. |
| 18 | Wed, Oct. 14 | Linear Programming: Simplex Method. |
| 19 | Fri, Oct. 16 | Linear Programming: Ellipsoid Method. |
| 20 | Mon, Oct. 19 | Introduction to Approximation Algorithms. |
| 21 | Wed, Oct. 21 | Approximation Algorithms: Greedy approaches. Enumeration and FPAS (scheduling) |
| 22 | Fri, Oct. 23 | Approximation Algorithms: Enumeration, Rounding, Metric TSP. |
| 23 | Mon, Oct. 26 | Approximation Algorithms: Relaxations |
| 24 | Wed, Oct. 28 | Approximation Algorithms: Randomized Rounding |
| 25 | Fri, Oct. 30 | Computational Geometry I. |
| 26 | Mon, Nov. 2 | Computational Geometry II: Voronoi Diagrams |
| 27 | Wed, Nov. 4 | Online Algorithms: Ski Rental, Paging. |
| 28 | Fri, Nov. 6 | Online Algorithms: Paging, Adversaries, Randomization |
| 29 | Mon, Nov. 9 | Online Algorithms: Adversaries, Randomization, k-server. |
| 30 | Fri, Nov. 13 | The k-server problem and External Memory Algorithms. |
| 31 | Mon, Nov. 16 | External Memory Algorithms. |
| 32 | Wed, Nov. 18 | Parallel Algorithms. |
| 33 | Fri, Nov. 20 | Parallel Algorithms. |