Time

Event

Speaker

Affliation

August 23, 2016 (Tuesday)

10:00AM-11:00AM

Gaussian Comparison Lemmas and Convex Optimization [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Babak Hassibi

Caltech

11:15AM-12:15PM

Information Theoretical Security [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Ning Cai

ShanghaiTech University

2:30PM-3:30PM

Online List Colouring of Graphs [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Xuding Zhu

Zhejiang Normal University

3:45PM-4:45PM

Estimating the Capacity of the 2-D Hard Square Constraint Using Generalized Belief Propagation [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Navin Kashyap

Indian Institute of Science

5:00PM-6:00PM

Polynomial Time Approximation of Entropy of Multi-Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Brian Marcus

University of British Columbia

August 24, 2016 (Wednesday)

10:00AM-11:00AM

Randomized Coordinate Descent for Composite Optimization: Algorithm and Complexity [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Zheng Qu

University of Hong Kong

11:15AM-12:15PM

An Overview to Code Based Cryptography [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Joachim Rosenthal

University of Zurich

Afternoon young researcher session (chaired by Yonglong Li)

2:30PM-3:00PM

Pairwise Interaction Analysis of Logistic Regression Models [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

(Easton) Li  Xu

Texas A&M University

3:00PM-3:30PM

Partition-Symmetrical Entropy Functions [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Qi Chen

Chinese University of Hong Kong

3:45PM-4:45PM

Some Algorithms for LPN and LWE Problems [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Haibin Kan

Fudan University

5:00PM-6:00PM

Zero-sum Games, Non-Archimedean Convexity and Sinuous Central Paths [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Stephane Gaubert

INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique

August 25, 2016 (Thursday)

10:00AM-11:00AM

Block Markov Superposition Transmission: A Simple and Flexible Method for Constructing Good Codes [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Xiao Ma

Sun Yat-sen University

11:15AM-12:15PM

How to Communicate via a Binary Erasure Channel with Feedback without Repeated Ones? [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Haim Permuter

Ben-Gurion University

Afternoon young researcher session (chaired by Easton Li Xu)

2:30PM-3:00PM

A Min-Max Relation on Tournaments [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Qiulan Zhao

University of Hong Kong

3:00PM-3:30PM

Capacity of Multilevel NAND Flash Memory Channels [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Yonglong Li

University of Hong Kong

3:45PM-4:45PM

Massive Access and Many-User Information Theory [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Dongning Guo

Northwestern University

5:00PM-6:00PM

Hypercontractivity and Information Theory [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Chandra Nair

Chinese University of Hong Kong

7:00PM

Conference dinner at Shanghai Min at Central (speakers invited)

August 26, 2016 (Friday)

10:00AM-11:00AM

New Codes and Outer Bounds for Caching Systems: A Computer-Aided Investigation [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Chao Tian

University of Tennessee

11:15AM-12:15PM

Some Fundamental Results in Random Matrix Theory with Applications to Information Theory and High-Dimensional Statistics [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Jianfeng Yao

University of Hong Kong

2:30PM-3:30PM

A Relative Entropy Characterization of the Growth Rate of Reward in Risk-Sensitive Control [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES]

Venkat Anantharam

University of California, Berkeley

3:45PM-4:45PM

Small Noise Expansions and Fast Numerical Methods for Elliptic Equation on Domains with Random Boundary [ABSTRACT]

Zhiwen Zhang

University of Hong Kong

5:00PM-6:00PM

Between Shannon and Hamming: Codes Against Causal Adversaries [ABSTRACT][SLIDES]

Sidharth Jaggi

Chinese University of Hong Kong