Graph and Subgraph Sparsification and its Implications to Linear System Solving and Transforming Graphs into Expanders

Alexandra Kolla
Institute for Advanced Study
November 10, 2009 10:30am

I will first give an overview of several constructions of graph sparsifiers and their properties. I will then present a method of sparsifying a subgraph W of a graph G with optimal number of edges and talk about the implications of subgraph sparsification in constructing nearly-optimal ultrasparsifiers and optimizing the algebraic connectivity of a graph by adding few edges.

The talk is based on joint work with Makarychev,Saberi,Teng.

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