===== 2006-2007 Information Processing Seminar Series ====
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**Time and place**: on Tuesdays at 5:15 PM in room INR 113
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**Organizers**: Suhas Diggavi and Olivier Leveque
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=== 2006 ===
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^Date^Speaker^Title^
|November 14  | David Tse, EECS Dept, UC Berkeley  | Gaussian Interference Channel Capacity to Within One Bit [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/tse.ppt|(Slides)]]  |
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|November 28  | Mathilde Durvy, LCA, EPFL  | A Backoff Mechanism to Achieve Full Organization? [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/durvy.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|Thursday, December 7 11:15 AM, room INR 113  | Onkar Dabeer, Tata Institute, Bombay  | Signal Parameter Estimation with Dithered 1-Bit Quantization [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/dabeer.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|December 12  |Igal Sason, EE Dept, Technion  | Information-Theoretic Bounds on the Parity-Check Density of LDPC Codes: Old and New Results [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/sason.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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=== 2007 ===
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^Date^Speaker^Title^
|January 9  | Lorenz Minder, ALGO, EPFL  | Cryptanalysis of the Sidelnikov System  |
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|Wednesday, January 17 11:15 AM, room BC 410  | Aslan Tchamkerten, RLE, MIT  |Tracking Stopping Times [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/tchamkerten.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|Friday, January 19 5:15 PM, room INR 113  | Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs  |Information Theory for Two-Message, Two-Receiver Broadcast Channels  |
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|January 23  |Florence Bénézit, LCA/LCAV, EPFL  |Markov Chains on Balanced Trees and Application to Average Consensus  |
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|February 13, 4:45 PM  |Chao Tian, LICOS, EPFL  |Hypothesis Testing Under Successive Refinement Communication Constraints  |
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|Friday, February 23 11:15 AM, room INR 113  |Mérouane Debbah, Eurecom  |Free Deconvolution for Signal Processing Applications [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/debbah.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|February 27  |Iryna Andriyanova, LTHC, EPFL  |A New Family of Asymptotically Good Codes with High Iterative Decoding Performances: Tail-Biting Trellis LDPC Codes [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/andriyanova.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|Monday, March 12 12:15 PM, room INR 113  |Raymond Knopp, Eurecom  |Two-way Wireless Communication via a Relay Station [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/knopp.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|March 13  |Patrick Vandewalle, LCAV, EPFL  |Super-Resolution from Unregistered Aliased Signals [[http://lthiwww.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/vandewalle.pdf|(Slides)]]  |
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|March 27  |Christof Faller, LCAV, EPFL and Illusonic  |Matrix Surround Revisited  |
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|April 3  |Marat Burnashev, Russian Academy of Sciences  |Code Spectrum and Reliability Function: Binary Symmetric Channel  |
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|April 10  |  Easter break  ||
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|Monday, April 23 2:00 PM, room INR 113  |Yong Liang Guan, NTU, Singapore  |Full-Diversity O-STBC and QO-STBC with Minimum Decoding Complexity, Constant Full Rate or Code Rate > 1  |
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|May 15 10:15 AM, room INR 113  |Patrick Denantes, LCA, EPFL  |Choosing the Best Averaging Strategy in a Time-varying Network  |