2009 – 2010

Organizers: Suhas Diggavi and Olivier Leveque

Spring semester 2009-2010

Time and place: on Wednesdays at 2:15 PM in room BC 129

………speaker……… ………..date……….. ……………………………title……………………………
Janos Pach,
DCG – EPFL
Tue, Feb 23
4:15 PM
INR 113
Ordnung muss sein! – Plane curves and partial orders (abstract)
Chandra Nair,
CUHK
Fri, Feb 26
11:15 AM
INR 113
Broadcast channel: An overview of some recent results (abstract)
Volkan Cevher,
STI – EPFL
Wed, Mar 10
2:15 PM
BC 129
Compressible priors and structured sparsity models (abstract)
Sheng Yang,
Supelec
Wed, July 7
2:00 PM
INR 113
Distributed Rotation Recovers Spatial Diversity (abstract)
Shlomo Shamai,
Technion
Fri, July 9
2:15 PM
INR 113
An Information Theoretic View of Robust Cooperation/Relaying in Wireless Networks (abstract)
Fernando Perez-Cruz,
University Carlos III, Madrid
Mon, July 12
2:15 PM
INR 113
Estimation of Information Theoretic Measures for Continuous Random Variables (abstract)
Abdellatif Zaidi,
UC Louvain
Thu, July 15
2:15 PM
INR 113
Bounds on the Capacity of the Relay Channel with Noncausal State Information at Source (abstract)
Pablo Piantanida,
Supelec
Thu, July 15
3:15 PM
INR 113
Recent Results on the Capacity of Compound Channels with State Information at the Transmitter (abstract)

Fall semester 2009-2010

Time and place: on Wednesdays at 2:15 PM in room INR 113

………speaker……… ………..date……….. ……………………………title……………………………
Shlomo Shamai,
Technion
Sept 9,
11:15 AM
Secrecy Capacity of the MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel: An I-MMSE Approach (abstract)
Danilo Silva,
University of Toronto
Sept 23 Error Control and Security for Network Coding (abstract)
Viktor Kuncak,
LARA – EPFL
Nov 11 Algorithms and Tools for Software Processing (abstract)
George Candea,
DSLAB – EPFL
Nov 18 Building a Dependable System: Why, What, and How? (abstract)
Katerina Argyraki,
LabOS – EPFL
Nov 25,
4:15 PM
How to Build Fast, Programmable Routers (and why) (abstract)
Rico Zenklusen,
IFOR – ETHZ
Fri, Nov 27,
11:15 AM,
room BC 129
Using Matroids for Wireless Network Information Flow (abstract)
Dejan Kostic,
NSL – EPFL
Tue, Dec 1,
2:15 PM
CrystalBall: Predicting and Preventing Inconsistencies in Deployed Distributed Systems (abstract)
Urbashi Mitra,
USC
Dec 9 Grey Spaces: an Approach for Cognitive Radio (abstract)
Richard Blahut,
UIUC
Fri, Dec 11,
11:15 AM
Progress in Multiterminal Source Coding
Florence Benezit,
LCA/LCAV – EPFL
Dec 16 Asynchronous one-way averaging (abstract)