CSCI1952-C

Frontiers of Graph Algorithms Seminar

Not offered this year
Offered most years, last taught:

Fall 2023

Graphs are one of the most powerful and flexible algorithmic tools. Likewise, graph algorithms remains a primary focus of modern algorithms research. This course will sample major results from contemporary paradigms of graph algorithms. Particular attention will be paid to techniques in graph sparsification and how these techniques have helped to recently solve open problems in algorithms. Planned topics include: metric embeddings, expander decompositions, iterative rounding, edge-degree-constrained subgraphs and graph shortcuts. This course is aimed at current and potential future graduate students considering proof-based research in algorithms. Each student will be responsible for reading and presenting a paper with the goal of better understanding how contemporary research in theoretical computer science is both done and best communicated.