2010 – 2011

Organizer: Olivier Leveque

Fall semester 2010-2011

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

…………speaker…………… ……..date……… ………………………….title…………………………..
Sirin Nitinawarat
U Maryland
Mon, Sept 6
4PM, INR 113
Secrecy Generation, Source Coding and Tree Packing
Toshiyuki Tanaka
U Kyoto
Mon, Sept 13
4PM, INR 113
Compressed Sensing under Structural Side Information
Onkar Dabeer
Tata Institute, Mumbai
Oct 6 What is Popular amongst your Friends? (abstract, slides)
Yuval Cassuto
ALGO – EPFL
Nov 3 Codes for Symbol-Pair Read Channels (abstract, slides)
Nicolas Gast
LCA – EPFL
Nov 17 Decentralized Scheduling: a New Analysis of Work Stealing (abstract, slides)
Sebastien Rumley
STI – TCOM – EPFL
Nov 24 Optical Networking: Principles, Hot Topics and Future Perspectives (abstract, slides)
Jean-Christophe Mourrat
MA – PROB – EPFL
Dec 1 Moving in a Disordered Grid of Servers (abstract)
Meir Feder
Tel Aviv U & Amimon
Dec 20 WHDI: A Joint Source Channel Coding Video Connectivity – at a Store Near You! (abstract)

Spring semester 2010-2011

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

…………speaker…………… ……..date……… ………………………….title…………………………..
Nicholas Ruozzi
U Yale
Fri, Jan 28
11:15 AM
INR 113
Message Passing Algorithms: A Graph Theoretic Approach (abstract)
Peter Harremoes
U Copenhagen
Fri, Jan 28
2:15 PM
INR 113
Information Theory and the Central Limit Theorem (abstract)
Jay Unnikrishnan
LCAV – EPFL
Mar 2 Universal and Composite Hypothesis Testing via Mismatched Divergence (abstract, slides)
Bertrand Meyer
ALGO – EPFL
March 9 Semidefinite programming and upper bounds on witness codes (abstract)
Vinod Prabhakaran
ARNI – EPFL
Mar 30 On Generalizing Common Information with Applications to Secure Two-Party Computations (abstract)
Warren Gross
McGill University
June 1, 3:15PM
room BC 410
Stochastic Decoding (abstract)
Ashish Khisti
U Toronto
June 22, 2:15PM
room BC 129
Information Theoretic Aspects of Delay-Sensitive and Trustworthy Communications (abstract)
Jacob Christiansen
U Copenhagen
June 30, 2:15PM
room BC 410
Jacobi Matrices and Orthogonal Polynomials (abstract, slides)
Laurent Massoulie
Technicolor, Paris
July 20, 2:15PM
room INR 113
Loss Networks and Matchings in Random Environments (abstract, slides)
Shlomo Shamai
Technion, Israel
July 21, 2:15PM
room BC 01
Old and New via an Information-Estimation based Personal Perspective (abstract, slides)
Angel Plastino
U Granada
July 22, 11:15AM
room INR 113
Quantum Entanglement in Atomic Models (abstract, slides)