Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington)
Monday, July 27, 2020
Virtual via Bluejeans - 11:30 am
Title: A (slightly) Improved Approximation algorithm for Metric TSP
Abstract: I will sketch some of the ideas in our recent 3/2-eps approximation algorithm for Metric TSP. The field of geometry of polynomials plays a fundamental role in our proof as we use and prove several (new) properties of strongly Rayleigh distributions.
Based on a joint work with Anna Karlin and Nathan Klein
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