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Morning 9:00am-12:30pm
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Afternoon 2:00pm-6:00pm
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Monday Morning
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Monday Afternoon
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Lossy Data Compression
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MDL Ideas in Lossy Data Compression
Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Brown)
- On large-deviations tradeoffs between code-length and distortion in certain lossy source coding problems
Neri Merhav (Technion)
- Scalar vs. vector quantization
Alon Orlitsky (San Diego)
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Multidisciplinary
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On a Boolean Maximization Problem
Sol Golomb (USC)
MSRI-Evans Talk
- Large random matrices and wireless communication
Sergio Verdú (Princeton)
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Tuesday Morning
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Tuesday Afternoon
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Statistics and Information Theory
- MDL Theory as a foundation for Statistical Modeling
Jorma Rissanen
- New settings for the sequential decision problem
Marcelo Weinberger (Hewlett-Packard)
- An Efficient Universal Prediction Algorithm For Unknown Sources With Limited Training Data
Jacob Ziv (Technion)
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Multiantenna Channels
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Multi-antenna communications: Information theory and algorithms
Babak Hassibi (Caltech)
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Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Multiple AntennaWireless Communications
David Tse (Berkeley)
Lossless Data Compression
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Weighting and Waiting
Frans Willems (Eindhoven)
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Analytic Combinatorics, Information Theory, and Algorithmics: Precise Redundancy Rate Problem
Wojtek Szpankowski (Purdue)
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Wednesday Morning
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Wednesday Afternoon
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Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
- Efficient Content Delivery and Low Complexity Codes
Amin Shokrollahi (Digital Fountain)
- Generalized Belief Propagation and Free Energy Minimization
Jonathan Yedidia (MERL)
- Approximate estimation of stochastic processes on graphs with cycles: The reparameterization viewpoint
Martin Wainwright (MIT)
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Planned Outing
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Thursday Morning
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Thursday Afternoon
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Multidisciplinary
- Covers, Codes, Flows, and Team Strategies for Guessing Hat Colors
Elwyn Berlekamp (Berkeley)
- The Kolmogorov Sampler
David Donoho (Stanford)
- Quantum Data Compression: Tutorial and Recent Results
Emina Soljanin (Lucent)
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Channel Capacity
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Information Theoretic Energy Reduction in Deep Submicron Computation Modules
Vahid Tarokh (MIT)
- Capacity-achieving distributions that escape to infinity and the fading number
Amos Lapidoth (ETH)
- Information Theoretic Aspects of Constrained Systems
Shlomo Shamai (Technion)
- Information theory and Spread Spectrum Communications
Chris Heegard (Texas Instruments)
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Friday Morning
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Friday Afternoon
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Shannon Theory
- Common randomness and secret key capacities
Prakash Narayan (Maryland)
- The role of side information in communication and data compression
Tom Cover (Stanford)
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Duality between source coding and channel coding with side information
Kannan Ramchandran (Berkeley)
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Codes for Recording
- Coding for Storage Systems
Jack Wolf (San Diego)
- Concatenation of modulation encoders and ECC encoders
Brian Marcus (IBM)
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