TOC Colloquium featuring:


Sariel Har-Peled

U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

On set cover in geometric settings

Tuesday, May 13, 4:15pm

32-155

[refreshments at 3:45pm in 32-G5]




Abstract

In this talk, we will survey some of the known results on weighted set cover in geometric settings, and how the known approximation algorithms work. In the second part of the talk, we will discuss some recent results, on the weighted set cover for weighted halfplanes, and fat shapes in the plane.


Host: Piotr Indyk