18.433 | Fall 2003 | Undergraduate

Combinatorial Optimization

Lecture Notes

SES # LECTURE NOTES
1, 2, 3 Matching Algorithms (PDF)
4 Polyhedral Combinatorics (PDF)
5 The Matching Polytope: Bipartite Graphs (PDF)
6 The Matching Polytope: General Graphs (PDF)
7, 8 Flow Duality and Algorithms (PDF)
9 Minimum Cuts (PDF)
10, 11 Not yet available.
12 Linear Programs (PDF)
13, 15 The Simplex Algorithm (PDF)
16 The Primal-dual Algorithm (PDF)
17, 18 The Ellipsoid Algorithm (PDF)
19, 20 Separation Oracles (PDF)
21 NP-completeness (PDF)
22, 23, 24 Approximation Algorithms (PDF)

There are no lecture notes for sessions during which an exam was given (Ses.# 14 and 25) or a review (Ses.# 26 and 27).

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Fall 2003