Students in this class were required to scribe lecture notes in order to gain experience writing mathematics. The lecture notes files are included courtesy the students listed below.
| LEC # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES | SCRIBES / LECTURERS | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | ||
| 2 | The Condition Number | (PDF) (Courtesy of Steve Weis. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Steve Weis Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 3 | The Largest Singular Value of a Matrix | (PDF) (Courtesy of Arvind Sankar. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Arvind Sankar Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 4 | Gaussian Elimination Without Pivoting | (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Lepinski. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Matthew Lepinski Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 5 | Smoothed Analysis of Gaussian Elimination Without Pivoting | (PDF) (Courtesy of Nitin Thaper. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Nitin Thaper Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 6 | 
Growth Factors of Partial and Complete Pivoting
 Speeding up GE of Graphs with Low Bandwidth or Small Separators  | 
(PDF) (Courtesy of Brian Sutton. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Brian Sutton Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 7 | Spectral Partitioning Introduced | (PDF) (Courtesy of Michael Korn. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Michael Korn Lecturer: Shang-Hua Teng  | 
| 8 | Spectral Partitioning of Planar Graphs | (PDF) (Courtesy of Jan Vondrák. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Jan Vondrák Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 9 | 
 Spectral Parititioning of Well-Shaped Meshes and Nearest Neighbor Graphs Turner’s Theorem for Bandwidth of Semi-Random Graphs  | 
(PDF) | 
 Scribe: Stephan Kalhamer Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 10 | 
 Smoothed Analysis and Monotone Adversaries for Bandwidth and Graph Bisection McSherry’s Spectral Bisection Algorithm  | 
(PDF) | Lecturer: Daniel Spielman | 
| 11 | 
 Introduction to Linear Programming von Neumann’s Algorithm, Primal and Dual Simplex Methods Duality  | 
(PDF) (Courtesy of José Correa. Used with permission.) | 
Scribe: José Correa
 Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 12 | 
 Strong Duality Theorem of Linear Programming Renegar’s Condition Numbers  | 
(PDF) (Courtesy of Arvind Sankar. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Arvind Sankar Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 13 | Analysis of von Neumann’s Algorithm | (PDF) (Courtesy of Nitin Thaper. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Nitin Thaper Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 14 | Worst-Case Complexity of the Simplex Method | (PDF ) (Courtesy of Brian Sutton. Used with permission.) | 
Scribe: Brian Sutton
 Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 15 | The Expected Number of Facets of the Convex Hull of Gaussian Random Points in the Plane | (PDF) | 
 Scribe: Mikhail Alekhnovitch Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 16 | The Expected Number of Facets of the Convex Hull of Gaussian Random Points in the Plane (cont.) | (PDF) (Courtesy of Mikhail Alekhnovitch. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Mikhail Alekhnovitch Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 17 | The Expected Number of Facets of the Shadow of a Polytope Given by Gaussian Random Constraints | (PDF) (Courtesy of Steve Weis. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Steve Weis Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
| 18 | The Expected Number of Facets of the Shadow of a Polytope Given by Gaussian Random Constraints: Distance Bound | 
 Scribe: Stephan Kalhamer Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  | 
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| 19 | The Expected Number of Facets of the Shadow of a Polytope Given by Gaussian Random Constraints: Angle Bound and Overview of Phase 1 | (PDF) (Courtesy of Matthew Lepinski. Used with permission.) | 
 Scribe: Matthew Lepinski Lecturer: Daniel Spielman  |