Advanced Algorithms
CS/CMS 139
Winter 2018



Class: Mondays and Wednesdays 9-10:30am, Annenberg 213.
Recitation: TBA.


Schedule


January 3rd Streaming algorithms and basic probabilistic inequalities. Notes
January 8th The Chernoff bound and amplification via median-of-means.
January 10th Applications of the Chernoff bound: the power of two choices; the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma.