CSCI 6961 : Geometric Optimization for Robotics



Date
Day
Notes
1
8/27
Mon
Intro -- the art gallery theorem
For the first part of the class, you can find supplementary materials here.
2
8/30
Thu
optimization version of the art gallery problem
its hardness
covering problems, greedy set cover

9/3
Mon
No class -- Labor Day
3
9/6
Thu
No class due to CDI workshop on campus
4
9/10
Mon
randomized rounding set cover
5
9/13
Thu
Project proposals are due
geometric instanes of covering:
Approximation schemes for covering and packing problems in image processing and VLSI
6
9/17
Mon
sampling and vc dimension
epsilon net theorem
7
9/20
Thu
covering when the VC-dimension is small
8
9/24
Mon
covering when the VC-dimension is small
9
9/27
Thu
project background presentation: Nikhil
10
10/01
Mon
project background presentation: Nikhil (cont)
follow-up: Volkan
11
10/04
Thu
project background presentation: Onur

10/08
Mon
No Class
12
10/09
Tue
School follows a monday schedule
project background presentation: Wei
13
10/11
Thu
project background presentation: Chris
14
10/15
Mon
range searching and point location
15
10/18
Thu
voronoi diagrams
16
10/22
Mon
dynamic programming
17
10/25
Thu
Watchman's route problem
18
10/29
Mon
convex hulls and delaunay triangulations
19
11/1
Thu
k-center, k-means etc.

20
11/5
Mon
Geometric Spanners
21
11/8
Thu
spanners (cont)
22
11/12
Mon
online algorithms
23
11/15
Thu
intro to game theory
24
11/19
Mon
Pursuit evasion on graphs

11/22
Thu
No Class -- Thanksgiving
25
11/26
Mon
project presentation: Chris and Wei
26
11/29
Th
Take-home final out
project presentation: Onur and Nikhil
27
12/3
Mon
Take-home final due
Concluding Remarks







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