## COURSE SLIDES Here are PowerPoint slides that you can use in courses that have this book as course book. The complexity of optimization problems (chapter 1 in the book). Design techniques for approximation algorithms and approximation classes (chapter 2-3 in the book). Non-approximability results (chapter 3-6 in the book). Input-dependent and asymptotic approximation (chapter 4 in the book). The PCP theorem (chapter 7 in the book). Approximation preserving reductions (chapter 8 in the book).