Notes | Date |
Rudiments | January 17, January 19 |
Expectation | January 19, January 24 |
Variance | January 26 |
A sampling of randomized algorithms | January 31, February 2 |
Randomized Quicksort | February 7 |
Moments and Deviations | February 9 |
Chernoff Bounds (Fundamentals) | February 14 |
Cheroff Bounds (Applications) | February 16 |
The LazySelect Algorithm | February 21, February 23 |
Balls and Bins (Preliminaries) | February 28, March 1 |
Balls and Bins (Advanced)) | March 6, March 8 |
Markov Chains (Preliminaries) | March 13, March 15 |
Markov Chains (Advanced) | March 20, March 22 |
The Monte Carlo Method (Introduction) | April 5 |
The Monte Carlo Method (Advanced) | April 10 |
Martingales (Introduction) | April 17 |
The Probabilistic Method | April 24 |
Martingales (Advanced) | April 28 |
The Lovasz Local Lemma | April 28 |
Notes | Date |
Course Overview | January 17 |
Homework I | January 26 |
Scrimmage I | January 26 |
Homework II | March 1 |
Scrimmage II | March 15 |
Homework III | April 3 |