You can download the book chapters corresponding to the lectures below, which are handed out in class.
 

Here is a copy of volume I.

(Updated! 4/30) Here is a copy of part of volume II (Chapter 5, 6 and 7).

We will continue to update the draft as we make corrections.
 

Lecture #

Date

Title

Download

Lecture 1

Jan 29

Introduction (Course overview)

lec1.pdf

Chapter 2. The Power of Randomness

chap2.pdf

Lecture 2

Feb 3

Randomized Algorithms and Complexity Classes

Sec. 2.1-2.2

Lecture 3

Feb 5

Continue on Complexity Classes, Error Reduction,

Sampling and Approximation Problems

Sec. 2.3.1-2.3.2

Lecture 4

Feb 10

Approx #DNF, MAX-CUT, S-T Connectivity

Sec. 2.3.3-2.4.1

Lecture 5

Feb 12

Random Walk, Markov Chain Monte Carlo,

Start of Basic Derandomization Techniques

Sec. 2.4-3.2

Chapter 3. Basic Derandomization Techniques

chap3.pdf

Lecture 6

Feb 17

Basic Derandomization Techniques

Sec. 3.2-3.5

Lecture 7

Feb 19

Pairwise and k-wise Independence

Sec. 3.5

Chapter 4. Expander Graphs

chap4.pdf

Lecture 8

Feb 26

Definition, Measures of Expansion, Existence of

Expanders

Sec. 4.1

Lecture 9

Mar 10

Random Walks on Expanders

Sec. 4.2

Lecture 10

Mar 12

Explicit Constructions via Graph Operations

Sec. 4.3

Lecture 11

Mar 17

USTCONN in L and start Randomness Extractors

Sec. 4.4 ¡V 5.1

Chapter 5. Randomness Extractors

chap5.pdf

Lecture 12

Mar 19

Seeded Extractors, Connections with Hash Functions

and Expanders

Sec. 5.1-2

Lecture 13

Mar 31

Block Source, Reducing General Source to Block

Source, Lossless Condenser and Expander

Sec. 5.2, 5.4.1

Lecture 14

Apr 2

Extractor Construction and start Error-Correction

Code

Sec. 5.3, 6.1

Chapter 6. List-Decodable Codes

vol2.pdf

Lecture 15

Apr 7

Existential Bounds and Explicit Codes

Sec. 6.1

Lecture 16

Apr 9

List-Decoding Algorithms ¡V Reed-Solomon Codes

and Parvaresh-Vardy Codes

Sec. 6.2.1-4

Lecture 17

Apr 14

List-decoding Views of Expanders and Extractors

Sec. 6.2.5

Chapter 7. Pseudorandom Generators

vol2.pdf

Lecture 18

Apr 16

Definition and Survey of Cryptographic PRGs

Sec. 7.1-2