Happy new year! Arvind gave a talk on randomized algorithms (planned topics: randomized sorting, Karger’s min cut algorithm).

A recording can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4qnj67pb.

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Neil gave a talk on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), including the problem itself, NP-hardness (as well as briefly what it means to be in NP, NP-Hard, etc.), the DP algorithm for exact TSP, some variants, and approximation algorithms.

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