===== 2008-2009 Information Processing Seminar Series ==== \\ **Organizers**: Suhas Diggavi and Olivier Leveque \\ \\ **Spring semester 2008-2009** **Time and place**: on Thursdays at 2:15 PM in room INR 113 ^......**speaker**......^ ^ ......**date**......^ ^.......................................**title**.......................................^ | | | | | | | [[http://lis.epfl.ch/member.php?SCIPER=169792|Sara Mitri]]\\ LIS - EPFL | | March 26 | | Robots, Animals and Information ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/mitri.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~sdraper/|Stark Draper]]\\ Univ. of Wisconsin | | **Tue**, April 7\\ 11:00 AM | | Beating Biometric Burglars: Securing Biometric\\ Data Using Error-Correcting Codes ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/draper.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://disopt.epfl.ch/|Fritz Eisenbrand]]\\ DisOpt - EPFL | | **Wed**, April 22\\ 2:15 PM | | Diameter of Polyhedra: Limits of Abstractions ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/eisenbrand.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://est-signal.i3s.unice.fr/index.php/Nice/MatthiasHesse|Matthias Hesse]]\\ Univ. of Nice | | April 30 | | Space-Time Codes from L2-Orthogonal Design ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/hesse.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://www.research.att.com/~tian/|Chao Tian]]\\ AT&T Labs | | **Wed**, May 6\\ 2:15 PM | | Latent Capacity Region: A Case Study on Symmetric Broadcast With Common Messages ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/tian2.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | Yossef Steinberg\\ Technion | | May 7 | | Variations on Coding With Side Information: Common Knowledge in Source Coding and Information Embedding ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/steinberg.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://www.math.princeton.edu/~vaggarwa/|Vaneet Aggarwal]]\\ Princeton | | **Wed**, May 20, 2:15 PM | | On Interference Channels with a Local View ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/aggarwal2.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | [[http://cnls.lanl.gov/~chertkov/|Mischa Chertkov]]\\ Los Alamos | | June 4, 2:15 PM | | Planar Graphical Models Which are Easy ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/chertkov.html|abstract]])| | | | | | | | [[http://www.mit.edu/~devavrat/|Devavrat Shah]]\\ LIDS - MIT | | June 4, 3:15 PM | | Network Algorithms: Decentralization and Efficiency ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/shah.html|abstract]])| | | | | | | | Thomas Rield,\\ UIUC | | June 11, 2:15 PM\\ room BC 410 | | Channel Estimation by Inference on Gaussian Markov Random Fields ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/riedl.html|abstract]])| | | | | | | | [[http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/shamai/|Shlomo Shamai]],\\ Technion | | **Fri**, July 17, 2:15 PM | | Cognitive Radio Networks: An Information Theoretic Perspective ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/shamai.html|abstract]])| \\ \\ **Fall semester 2008-2009** \\ \\ ^......**speaker**......^ ^ ......**date**......^ ^.......................................**title**.......................................^ | Emre Telatar, LTHI - EPFL | | Wed, Sept 10, 2:00 PM, room INR 113 | | Polarization codes and the rate of polarization ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/telatar.pdf|slides]])| | | | | | | | Jean-Pierre Tillich, INRIA Rocquencourt | | Wed, Oct 1, 2:15 PM, room BC 129 | | Attaining the capacity of the quantum erasure channel with iterative decoding ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/tillich.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | Mark Flanagan, University of Zurich | | Wed, Nov 12, 4:15 PM, room BC 129 | | On the Growth Rate of the Weight Distribution of Irregular Doubly-Generalized LDPC Codes ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/flanagan.html|abstract]])| | | | | | | |Florence Benezit, LCA/LCAV - EPFL | | Thu, Nov 27, 4:00 PM, room BC 129 | | Distributed Voting Algorithms ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/benezit2.html|abstract]]) | | | | | | | | Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University | | Thu, Dec 4, 3:00 PM, room BC 010 | | Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes: Influence of Proto- and Tanner-Graph Structure on Code Parameters ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/smarandache.html|abstract]])| | | | | | | | Vaneet Aggarwal, Princeton University | | Fri, Dec 19, 2:15 PM, room BC 129 | | Two-way channels with power-controlled training and feedback ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/aggarwal.html|abstract]])| | Mauro Maggioni, Duke University | | Fri, Dec 19, 3:15 PM, room BC 129 | | Multiscale Harmonic Analysis on Graphs and Data Sets ([[http://ipg.epfl.ch/~leveque/Seminar/maggioni.html|abstract]])| \\ [[en:events|back to ipg events page]]