Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

Spectral Sparsification in Dynamic Graph Streams.- The Online Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem.- On the NP-Hardness of Approximating Ordering Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Approximating Large Frequency Moments with Pick-and-Drop Sampling.- Generalizing the Layering Method of Indyk and Woodruff: Recursive Sketches for Frequency-Based Vectors on Streams.- Capacitated Network Design on Undirected Graphs.- Scheduling Subset Tests: One-Time, Continuous, and How They Relate.- On the Total Perimeter of Homothetic Convex Bodies in a Convex Container.- Partial Interval Set Cover - Trade-Offs between Scalability and Optimality.- Online Square-into-Square Packing.- Online Non-clairvoyant Scheduling to Simultaneously Minimize All Convex Functions.- Shrinking Maxima, Decreasing Costs: New Online Packing and Covering Problems.- Multiple Traveling Salesmen in Asymmetric Metrics.- Approximate Indexability and Bandit Problems with Concave Rewards and Delayed Feedback.- The Approximability of the Binary Paintshop Problem.- Approximation Algorithms for Movement Repairmen.- Improved Hardness of Approximating Chromatic Number.- A Pseudo-approximation for the Genus of Hamiltonian Graphs.- A Local Computation Approximation Scheme to Maximum Matching.- Sketching Earth-Mover Distance on Graph Metrics.- Online Multidimensional Load Balancing.- A New Regularity Lemma and Faster Approximation Algorithms for Low Threshold Rank Graphs.- Interdiction Problems on Planar Graphs.- Conditional Random Fields, Planted Constraint Satisfaction and Entropy Concentration.- Finding Heavy Hitters from Lossy or Noisy Data.- Private Learning and Sanitization: Pure vs. Approximate Differential Privacy.- Phase Coexistence and Slow Mixing for the Hard-Core Model on Z2.- Fast Private Data Release Algorithms for Sparse Queries.- Local Reconstructors and Tolerant Testers for Connectivity and Diameter.- An Optimal Lower Bound for Monotonicity Testing over Hypergrids.- Small-Bias Sets for Nonabelian Groups: Derandomizations of the Alon-Roichman Theorem.- What You Can Do with Coordinated Samples.- Robust Randomness Amplifiers: Upper and Lower Bounds.- The Power of Choice for Random Satisfiability.- Connectivity of Random High Dimensional Geometric Graphs.- Matching-Vector Families and LDCs over Large Modulo.- Explicit Noether Normalization for Simultaneous Conjugation via Polynomial Identity Testing.- Testing Membership in Counter Automaton Languages.- Tight Lower Bounds for Testing Linear Isomorphism.- Randomness-Efficient Curve Samplers.- Combinatorial Limitations of Average-Radius List Decoding.- Zero Knowledge LTCs and Their Applications.- A Tight Lower Bound for High Frequency Moment Estimation with Small Error.- Improved FPTAS for Multi-spin Systems.- Pseudorandomness for Regular Branching Programs via Fourier Analysis.- Absolutely Sound Testing of Lifted Codes.- On the Average Sensitivity and Density of k-CNF Formulas.- Improved Bounds on the Phase Transition for the Hard-Core Model in 2-Dimensions.