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Akash Kumar, Random walks and Forbidden Minors
Akash Kumar, Random walks and Forbidden Minors
Random walks and spectral methods have had a strong influence on modern graph algorithms as evidenced by the extensive literature on the subject. In this talk, I will present how random walks helped make progress on algorithmic problems on planar graphs. In particular, I show how random walk based (i.e., spectral) approaches led to progress …