COS 598 I: Matrix Concentration and Applications

Instructor: Pravesh K Kothari

Lectures

Fridays, 1:30-4:20 (CS 104)

Office Hours

After class (4:30-5:30)

Discussion

Join the discussion on Ed

Homeworks

We will have up to 4 graded homeworks in the class (40% of the grade), and a final project (55% of the grade). 5% of the grade will be class participation.

The homeworks should be typeset (preferably using LaTeX) and submitted via Gradescope.

Class Schedule

Lecture Number Date Topic Notes Presenter
101/31/2025Introduction, the Non-Commutative Khintchine Inequality and Graph SparsificationHandwritten Notes, Scribed NotesKothari
202/07/2025Elementary Proofs of Matrix Khintchine, Bernstein and Chernoff
302/14/2025
402/21/2025
502/28/2025
603/07/2025
703/14/2025
803/21/2025
903/28/2025
1004/04/2025
1104/11/2025
1204/18/2025
1304/25/2025