Post date: Nov 13, 2013 9:17:4 PM
I don't have lecture notes for SVMs ready, the following are very good resources to read about them
A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/67119/svmtutorial.pdf
SVM lecture notes from A. Ng http://cs229.stanford.edu/notes/cs229-notes3.pdf
A practical guide to SVM classification http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/guide/guide.pdf
The original Support Vector Machine paper is "Support-Vector Networks" by C. Cortes and V. Vapnik