# Date Topic of Paper (Sellect from below or: Collection of Local ratio papers) Speaker
1 4/3 Introduction - Optimization and Approximation
(Vazirani's notes: Chapters I+II pages 3-15 (PDF)) (Compendium intro) (Slides)
Alex Levin
2 11/3 Intro to linear programming ( CLRS book, at technion library)
...and its use in approximation algorithms (Vazirani's notes: Chapters 11 pages 59-62 (PDF)) (Slides)
Michael Krel
3 18/3 The Primal Dual Method for Approximation Algorithms (Vazirani's notes: Chapters 12-13 pages 63-72 (PDF)) (Page) (Slides) Tamir Carmeli
Teacher 25/3 R. Bar-Yehuda. One for the price of two (paper) (Slides) (Movie) Reuven Bar-Yehuda
4 8/4 Bar-Yehuda, R., Using Homogeneous Weights for Approximating the Partial Cover Problem, Journal of Algorithm, 39, 137-144, 2001. ( PDF ) (Slides) Evyatar Lavian -2
5 8/4 On Approximating a Vertex Cover for Planar Graphs Anna Livshits -2+1
6 15/4 R. Bar-Yehuda and D. Rawitz. Efficient Algorithms for Integer Programs with Two Variables per Constraint (Paper) Nadav Jonas
7 15/4 Part 2 Daniel Rembiszewski
8 22/4 R. Bar-Yehuda I. Feldman and D. Rawitz, Improved Approximation Algorithm for Convex Recoloring of Trees, WAOA 2005, Theory of Computing Systems, 43, 3-18, 2008. ( PDF) (Slides) (Summary page) Inbal Sertshuk
9 22/4 Local Ratio for Vertex Cover Rafael Alan Goldfarb
10 29/4 A. Bar-Noy, R. Bar-Yehuda, A. Freund, S. Naor, and B. Schieber. A Unified Approach to Approximating Resource Allocation and Scheduling Albagli Sivan*
11 29/4 Part B Tomer London
12 6/5 Vertex Feedback Set Approximations Ami Paz
13 6/5 A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems Alor Yotam*
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Teacher 27/5 Bandwidth Allocation in Networks with Multiple Interferences Reuven Bar-Yehuda
14 3/6 Exploiting Locality: Approximating Sorting Buffers Or Kaduri -1
Teacher 3/6 Hall theorem via local ratio (txt) Reuven Bar-Yehuda
15 10/6 Data Migration to Minimize Average Completion Time Shahar Chen*
Teacher LAST 17/6 Fractional local ratio Reuven Bar-Yehuda


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