Information Theory and Signal Processing

Instructor Michael Gastpar   Instructor Emre Telatar Instructor Ruediger Urbanke
Office INR 130 Office INR 117 Office INR 116
Email [email protected] Email [email protected] Email [email protected]
Office Hours By appointment Office Hours By appointment Office Hours By appointment
 

Teaching Assistant Su Li Email [email protected]          Office

INR034
Admin Assistant Muriel Bardet Email [email protected]   Office INR137
Lectures Monday 09:15 – 11:00  Room: INM200
  Friday 08:15 – 10:00  Room: INM201
Exercises Friday 10:15 – 12:00 Room:  INM201
Language:   English
Credits :   6 ECTS

Official Prerequisites: COM-300 Modèles stochastiques pour les communications (or equivalent)

Here is a link to official coursebook information).

Homework:
Some Homework will be graded…

Grading:
If you do not hand in your final exam your overall grade will be NA. Otherwise, your grade will be determined based on the following weighted average:
10 % for the Homework, 90 % for the Final Exam.

Special Announcements

 
 

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Final EXAM: Monday January 16th, 2017
A till F (Fountoukidou)            —  SALLE POLYVALENTE  CE 1515 (1st floor) 
F Fuentes =>  H (HWANG)    —  SALLE POLYVALENTE (2nd floor)
I (Imani ) to Q (Quinton)         —  Salle PO 1 (Polydôme) 
R (Radovanovic) to Z (Zoss)  —  CE 1
 
Recall, closed book, one page of notes allowed (recto-verso), you have 3 hours from 16:15 till 19:15,
no electronic devices of any kind. Please place all your belongings at the entrance or under your desk.
If you need any extra paper, let us know. Only answer on provided space.

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Detailed Schedule

(tentative, subject to changes)
 

Date Topics Covered Lectures Exercises  
  Signal Representation (MG)      
22/9 Signal Representations, Transforms, Bases, Projections  & Chapter 2   HW1  
25/9        
29/9        
02/10        
06/10        
  Information Measures (ET)      
09/10        
13/10     HW2  
16/10        
20/10        
  Exponential Families (RU)      
23/10     HW3  
27/10        
  Compression and Quantization (ET)      
30/10        
03/11 MG + RU abs   HW4  
06/11 MG abs      
10/11 MG abs      
  Detection and Estimation (MG)      
13/11        
17/11 RU abs   HW5  
20/11        
24/11        
         
27/11
Multi-Arm Bandits (RU)
      
01/12     HW6  
04/12        
08/12        
  Distribution Estimation (RU)      
11/12        
15/12     HW7  
18/12        
22/12        

Textbooks