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)
Har-Peled notes, Section 2
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Speakers: | Natasha Gelfand (slides) and Steve Oudot (slides) |
Date: | Monday, October 9 |
Topic: | Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search in Low Dimensions |
Source Materials: |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Speakers: | Qi-Xing Huang (slides) and Ioannis Antonellis (slides) |