CATS-Apr-26-2013

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Title[edit]

The breakthrough on k-median by Li and Svensson

Speaker[edit]

Aravind Srinivasan

Abstract[edit]

I will survey the recent breakthrough approximation algorithm for k-median due to Shi Li and Ola Svensson (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.0243v1.pdf). This is a sophisticated paper with many technicalities, and I will only be able to survey the main ideas.