| Num | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Sept 13 | Introduction and Course topics, Introduced graph Laplacian and relation to diffusion and oscillation. Handout: part of chapter 5 from Strang |
| 2 | Sept 15 |
Eigenvalues of directed graphs and the Perron-Frobenius Theorem Scribe: Don Sheehy |
| 3 | Sept 20 |
Laplacian of Graphs and some examples Scribe: |
| 4 | Sept 22 | Lower Bounding Eigenvalues using Path Embeddings |
| 5 | Sept 27 |
Cutting a graph evenly: Definitions and Cheeger Inequality Scribe: David Tolliver |
| 6 | Sept 29 |
Cutting a graph evenly continued: Proof of Cheeger Inequality Scribe: |
| 7 | Oct 4 |
Normalized Laplacian, Occilation with Masses, and Cheeger bounds Scribe: |
| 8 | Oct 6 |
Random Walks on Graphs and Eigenvalues Scribe: |
| 9 | Oct 11 |
Random Walks and Normalized Laplacians Scribe: |
| 10 | Oct 13 | |
| 11 | Oct 18 |
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| 12 | Oct 20 |
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| 13 | Oct 25 |
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| 14 | Oct 27 |
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| 15 | Nov 1 |
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| 16 | Nov 3 | |
| 17 | Nov 8 | |
| 18 | Nov 10 |
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| 19 | Nov 15 | |
| 20 | Nov 17 | |
| 21 | Nov 22 | |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving | |
| 22 | Nov 29 | |
| 23 | Dec 1 | |
| 24 | Dec 6 | |
| 25 | Dec 8 |