Main topic: Geometric Proximity Problems


 
Dates: Monday, September 25
Topic:  

Introduction and Orientation by Vladlen

Dates: Monday, October 2
Topic: Preliminaries
Source Materials: Har-Peled notes, Section 1 (without 1.4)
  • The closest-point algorithm is also described in Kleinberg-Tardos, Section 13.7.
  • The k-Enclosing Minimum Disk algorithm is also described in Vladlen's notes, Section 5.2.2.

Har-Peled notes, Section 2

  • Quadtrees are also briefly described in Vladlen's notes, Sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.2.
Speakers: Natasha Gelfand (slides) and Steve Oudot (slides)
Date: Monday, October 9
Topic: Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Low Dimensions
Source Materials: Har-Peled notes, Section 5

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Speakers: Nikola Milosavljevic (slides) and Daniel Russel (slides)
Date: Monday, October 16
Topic: Approximate Nearest Neighbor via Point-Location among Balls
Source Materials: Har-Peled notes, Section 6

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Speakers: Kyle Heath (slides) and Daniel Chen (slides)
Date: Monday, October 23
Topic: None
Source Materials: A field trip to FOCS'06 in Berkeley. Don't miss the Andoni-Indyk and Patrascu-Thorup presentations.
Speakers: None
Dates: Monday, October 30
Topic: Approximate Voronoi Diagrams
Source Materials: Har-Peled notes, Section 7

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Speakers: Maks Ovsjanikos (slides) and Primoz Skraba (slides)
Dates: Monday, November 6
Topic: ANN in High Dimensions and Locality-Sensitive Hashing
Source Materials: Har-Peled notes, Section 9

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Speakers: Aneesh Sharma and Michael Wand (slides)
Date: Monday, November 13
Topic: Reductions among Proximity Problems
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Speakers: Bart Adams (slides) and Siddhartha Chaudhuri (slides)
Date: Monday, November 20
Topic: None
Source Materials: Thanksgiving break
Speakers: None
Date: Monday, November 27
Topic: Nearest Neighbors in Metric Spaces
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Speakers: Siddhartha Chaudhuri (slides)
Date: Monday, December 4
Topic: Reverse Nearest Neighbors
Source Materials:
Speakers: Qi-Xing Huang (slides) and Ioannis Antonellis (slides)