Program
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
Affliation |
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December 11, 2013 (Wednesday) |
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9:55AM-10:00AM |
Opening Speech by Professor Lu, Head of Department of Mathematics |
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Capacity of a POST Channel with and without Feedback [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Tsachy Weissman |
Stanford University |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Combinatorial Batch Codes [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Anna Gal |
University of Texas, Austin |
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Lunch at Eliot Room, 14/F, Senior Common Room (speakers invited) |
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2:00PM-3:00PM |
Source-Channel Communication in Networks: Separation Theorems and Beyond [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Jun Chen |
McMaster University |
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3:15PM-4:15PM |
Capacity-Approaching Low-Density Parity-Check Codes: Recent Developments and Applications [SLIDES] |
Shu Lin |
University of California, Davis |
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4:30PM-5:30PM |
Computing bounds for entropy of stationary Z^d-Markov Random Fields [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Brian Marcus |
University of British Columbia |
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6:00PM |
Workshop Banquet (speakers invited) |
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December 12, 2013 (Thursday) |
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Index Coding: Old and New [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Young-Han Kim |
University of California, San Diego |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Entropy Power Inequalities: Results and Speculation [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Venkat Anantharam |
University of California, Berkeley |
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12:45PM-1:45PM |
Low-Density Parity-Check Codes on Partial Geometries [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Shu Lin |
University of California, Davis |
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Lunch at western restaurant, 15/F, Senior Common Room (speakers invited) |
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2:00PM-3:00PM |
BATS: Achieving the Capacity of Networks with Packet Loss [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Raymond Yeung |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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3:15PM-4:15PM |
Subspace Codes and Orbit Codes [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Joachim Rosenthal |
University of Zurich |
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4:30PM-5:30PM |
A Generalization of the I-MMSE Formula [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Jian Song |
University of Hong Kong |
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Departmental Reception (5:30PM-6:30PM, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Building) |
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Dinner (on your own) |
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December 13, 2013 (Friday) |
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Estimating High-dimensional Matrices: Information-Theoretic Limits and Computational Barriers [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Yihong Wu |
University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Optimal Probability Estimation with Applications to Prediction and Classification [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Alon Orlitsky |
University of California, San Diego |
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Lunch at Eliot room, 14/F, Senior Common Room (speakers invited) |
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2:00PM-3:00PM |
Coding for Combined Block-Symbol Error Correction [SLIDES] |
Pascal Vontobel |
Stanford University |
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Informal Discussion Session |
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3:20PM-3:40PM |
Some Conjectures On Entropy Power Inequality |
Fan Cheng |
CUHK |
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3:40PM-4:00PM |
On Renyi Entropy Rate |
Easton Li Xu |
HKU |
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4:00PM-4:20PM |
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Sidharth Jaggi |
CUHK |
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4:20PM-4:40PM |
On Network Coding and Distributed Storage Systems |
Kenneth Shum |
CUHK |
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Dinner (on your own) |
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