Devdatt Dubhashi, Rum EDIT:6472, Tel.: (031) 7721046,
dubhashi@chalmers.se
The course will meet on the following dates :
March 30; April 4, 18, 20, 25, 27; May 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25.
The times and locations are as follows :
Wednesdays, 13:15 - 15:00, Room MV:H11.
Fridays, 08:00 - 09:45, Room MV:L14.
Lectures will be based on a mixture of journal papers and textbook material. The teachers will present some material in the first two lectures. Thereafter all the presentations will be given by students. See the week-by-week schedule below for more details.
The teaching will involve only lectures , according to the schedule
above. The first few lectures will be given by the teachers and build on material covered in Part 1 of the course from the Fall. Thereafter students will give lectures on selected topics. Examination will be by means of these student lectures.
As we proceed, completed material will be marked in green.
OBS! The following schedule is approximate and will be continuously updated.
[AS] refers to the 2nd edition of Alon-Spencer. Material from the book will be handed out in class.
| Week |
Stuff |
Lecture Notes |
| 13 |
Talagrand's inequality and applications :
Balls and bins, Eigenvalues of random symmetric matrices, TSP in the plane.
|
[AS], 7.6 - 7.7. |
| 14 |
Complexity of randomised algorithms I.
|
1 2 |
| 16 |
Apr 18: Anders Martinsson.
Apr 20: Class cancelled.
|
Anders |
| 17 |
Apr 25: Leonid Molokov: Circuit complexity and the Haastad switching lemma.
Apr 27: Dmitry Zhelezov: Janson's inequality and applications in random graphs and number theory.
|
Leonid: [AS], Chapter 11. Dmitry: [AS], Chapter 8, and this. See also 1 2 |
| 18 |
May 2: Urban Larsson.
May 4: Timo Hirscher.
|
Urban Timo |
| 19 |
May 9: Magnus Önnheim.
May 11: Aron Andersson: Lovasz local lemma and applications to Ramsey numbers.
|
Magnus: 1
2 Aron: [AS], Chapter 5. |
| 20 |
May 16: Wei Yang.
May 18: Class cancelled.
|
Wei |
| 21 |
May 23: Joel Larsson: Complexity of randomised algorithms II.
May 25: Thomas Bååth Sjöblom: Discrepancy theory - Six standard deviations suffice.
|
Joel: See Week 14. Thomas: [AS], Chapter 12. |
| 22 |
May 30: Alexey Lindo: FKG inequality and applications to balls and bins.
|
Alexey: [AS], Chapter 6 and this. |
There will be no homeworks in this course.
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