2015 – 2016

2015 – 2016 Information Processing Seminar Series

…………speaker…………… ……..date……… ………………………….title…………………………..
Young-Han Kim
UCSD
Tue, October 6
11:00 AM
BC 410
Point-to-point codes for interference channels: A journey toward high performance at low complexity (abstract)
Stefan Moser
ETH Zürich
Mon, Feb 8
2:00 PM
INR 113
Performance Analysis of Fano Coding (abstract)
Ayfer Ozgur
Stanford
Fri, Mar 4
2:15 PM
BC 02
Improving on the Cut-Set Bound via Geometric Analysis of Typical Sets (abstract)
Tara Javidi
UCSD
Tue, March 29
2:15 PM
INR 113
Information Acquisition, Controlled Sensing, and Sequential Refinement of Belief (abstract)
Joseph Renes
ETHZ
Tue, April 19
2:15 PM
INM 203
From Heisenberg to Shannon: Dual channels via the uncertainty principle, and a route to capacity (abstract)
Markus Stinner
TUM
Wed, April 20
2:15 PM
INM 201
Finite-Length Scaling Based on Belief Propagation for Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes (abstract)
Natasha Devroye
UIC
Tue, May 17
4:15 PM
BC 129
Discrete Inputs in Interference Channels, and the Zero-error Primitive Relay Channel (abstract)
Sergey Loyka
Ottawa
Tue, May 24
2:15 PM
INR 113
On the Capacity of General Compound Channels (abstract)
Gerad Ben Arous
NYU
Wed, June 8
2:15 PM
INM 200
Complexity of Random Functions of Many Variables: from Statistical Physics to Deep Learning
Olgica Milenkovic
UIUC
Wed, June 22
2:15 PM
INR 113
Motif Community Detection via Correlation Clustering and Boolean Intersection Models (abstract)
Amin Coja-Oghlan
U Frankfurt
Mon, June 27
2:00 PM
INR 113
Limits of Discrete Probability Distributions (abstract)
Aylin Yener
Penn State U
Wed, July 6
4:15 PM
BC 410
Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks: A New Frontier for Communication and Information Theory (abstract)
Shlomo Shamai
Technion
Thu, Aug 4
2:15 PM
INR 113
Layered Secrecy on Broadcast Networks (abstract)
Abdellatif Zaidi
Huawei
Fri, Aug 5
2:15 PM
INR 113
Rate Distortion Regions of Instances of Heegard Berger Problem with Successive Refinement and Scalable Coding (abstract)