| Day | Date | Instr | Topics Covered | Notes and Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | Jan 14 | Gary | Lecture 1: Introduction, The Line Intersection Problem using Sweepline | ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 2 -- Intro Notes -- SweepLine Notes |
| Thu | Jan 16 | Gary | Lecture 2: 2D Convex Hull: Divide-and-Conquer and Random Incremantal | ClassNotes -- 2D Convex Notes |
| Tue | Jan 21 | Gary | Lecture 3: 2D-LP and Random Incremental | ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 4 |
| Thu | Jan 23 | Gary | Lecture 4: Geometric Transforms | ClassNotes -- HW1 out |
| Tue | Jan 28 | Snow Day - No Class | ||
| Thu | Jan 30 | Gary | Lecture 5: Geometric Transforms Continued | |
| Tue | Feb 04 | Gary | Lecture 6: Planar Point Location; Trapezoidation | ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 6 [Mount Chap 9 & 10 ] |
| Thu | Feb 06 | Gary | Lecture 7: Traps and Chernoff Bounds | HW2 out -- ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 6 [Mount Chap 9 & 10 ] |
| Tue | Feb 11 | Gary | Lecture 8: Triangulating a Polygon | ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 3 |
| Thu | Feb 13 | Gary | Lecture 9: Homework 1 Presentations | |
| Tue | Feb 18 | Gary | Lecture 10: Radon, Carathéodory, and Helly's Theorems | ClassNotes -- Gil Kalai's Bolg |
| Thu | Feb 20 | Gary | Lecture 11: Approximate Centerpoints | ClassNotes -- Paper |
| Tue | Feb 25 | Gary | Lecture 12: Colorful Caratheodory and Tverberg Partition | ClassNotes -- Gil Kalai's Bolg |
| Thu | Feb 27 | Gary | Lecture 13: Representing Topological Information | ClassNotes -- Brisson-93 -- Cell-Chains |
| Tue | Mar 04 | Gary | Lecture 14: 2D-Closest Pair using Hashing | ClassNotes -- Har-Peled-Chap-1 |
| Thu | Mar 06 | Gary | Lecture 15: VC dimension and epsilon-nets | ClassNotes -- Har-Peled-Chap-5 |
| Tue | Mar 11 | Spring Break - No Class | ||
| Thu | Mar 13 | Spring Break - No Class | ||
| Tue | Mar 18 | Gary | Lecture 16: VC dimension and epsilon-nets continued | ClassNotes -- Har-Peled-Chap-5 |
| Thu | Mar 20 | Gary | Lecture 17: 2D Mesh Generation: Quadtree | ClassNotes -- BKOS Chap 14 --Har-Peled-Chap-12 |
| Tue | Mar 25 | Gary | Lecture 18: Delaunay Refinement | ClassNotes -- Wikipedia Page |
| Thu | Mar 27 | Gary | Lecture 19: Delaunay Refinement II | |
| Tue | Apr 01 | Gary | Lecture 20: Convexifying a Polygon (Part 1) | ClassNotes -- Connelly Demaine and Rote -- Connelly and Demaine -- Don Sheehy Slides |
| Thu | Apr 03 | Gary | Lecture 21: Convexifying a Polygon (Part 2) | |
| Tue | Apr 08 | Spring Carnival - No Class | ||
| Thu | Apr 10 | Spring Carnival - No Class | ||
| Tue | Apr 15 | Gary | Lecture 22: Graph Rigidity and Pseudo-Trianglualtions | |
| Thu | Apr 17 | Gary | Lecture 23: Brunn-Minkowski | ClassNotes --Har-Peled-Chap-19 |
| Tue | Apr 22 | Gary | Lecture 24: Johnson Lindenstrauss | ClassNotes --Har-Peled-Chap-19 |
| Thu | Apr 24 | Gary | Lecture 25: Generating a Distribution: Exponential and Normal | |
| Tue | Apr 29 | Gary | Lecture 26: k-Centers and k-Medians I | Gupta and Tangwongsan --Har-Peled-Chap-4 |
| Thu | May 01 | Gary | Lecture 27: k-Medians II |