Expander decomposition: applications to dynamic and distributed algorithms

Series
ACO Student Seminar
Time
Friday, October 4, 2019 - 1:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Thatchaphol Saranurak – CS, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago – thatchaphol.s@gmail.comhttps://sites.google.com/site/thsaranurak/
Organizer
He Guo

Expander decomposition has been a central tool in designing graph algorithms in many fields (including fast centralized algorithms, approximation algorithms and property testing) for decades. Recently, we found that it also gives many impressive applications in dynamic graph algorithms and distributed graph algorithms. In this talk, I will survey these recent results based on expander decomposition, explain the key components for using this technique, and give some toy examples on how to apply these components.