Welcome to the Spring 2026 offering of CS 2252: Spectral Graph Theory in Computer Science! This page will contain announcements relevant to the current offering of the course, as well as links to more detailed resources.
Basic Information:
Instructor: Salil Vadhan (he/they)
http://salil.seas.harvard.edu/, salil_vadhan@harvard.edu
Office hours posted at salil.seas.harvard.edu
Teaching Fellow: Prashanth Amireddy (he/him)
https://sites.google.com/view/prashanth-amireddy, pamireddy@harvard.edu
Course Assistant: Easton Singer (he/him)
Description: We will cover eigenvectors and eigenvalues of graphs and their applications to computer science problems, such as clustering, solving linear systems, derandomization, sampling via MCMC, counting, web search, and maximum flow.
Meeting: The course meets MW 9:45-11:00 am starting Jan 26, in SEC LL 2.221, 150 Western Ave, Allston.
Office Hours + Section:
Prashanth: Office hours or Section on Wednesdays 2:30-3:45pm and Thursdays 5-6:15pm in SEC 3.416.
Easton: Office hours on Tuesdays at 5-6:30pm in SC (Science Center) 310.
See Ed for most up-to-date information about Office hours and Section.