Program
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Time |
Event |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
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August 19, 2019 (Monday) |
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| 9:55AM-10:00AM | Opening speech by Professor Ng, Head of Department of Mathematics | ||
| Morning session (chaired by Fan Cheng) | |||
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
An Advantage of Estimating Mutual Information through Entropies [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Chung Chan |
City University of Hong Kong |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Moments of Scores [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Sergey Bobkov |
University of Minnesota |
| 12:30PM-2:20PM | Workshop lunch at Rome Cafe Graduate House HKU (speakers invited) | ||
| Afternoon session (chaired by Chandra Nair) | |||
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2:30PM-3:30PM |
Gaussian Channels with Feedback [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Shunsuke Ihara |
Nagoya University |
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3:45PM-4:45PM |
Random Number Generation: Old and New [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Shun Watanabe |
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
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5:00PM-6:00PM |
Universally Decodable Matrices for Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication. [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Pascal Vontobel |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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August 20, 2019 (Tuesday) |
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| Morning session (chaired by Chung Chan) | |||
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Third-Order Asymptotics in Channel Coding: Old and New [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Vincent Tan |
National University of Singapore |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
General Adversarial Channels: When Do Large Codes Exist? [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Sidharth Jaggi |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 12:30PM-2:20PM | Workshop lunch at Rome Cafe Graduate House HKU (speakers invited) | ||
| Afternoon session (chaired by Pascal Vontobel) | |||
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2:30PM-3:30PM |
Information Bottleneck Problems: An Outlook [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Shlomo Shamai |
Technion |
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3:45PMPM-4:45PM |
How to Solve Gaussian Interference Channel [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Fan Cheng |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
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August 21, 2019 (Wednesday) |
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| Morning session (chaired by Peter Harremoes) | |||
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Property Estimation ++[SLIDES] |
Alon Orlitsky |
University of California, San Diego |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Utilizing Reinforcement Learning and Graph-based Auxiliary Random Variable for Feedback Capacity [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Haim Permuter |
Ben-Gurion University |
| 12:30PM-2:20PM | Workshop lunch at Matsumoto (speakers invited) | ||
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Afternoon young researcher session (chaired by Chengyu Wu) |
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2:30PM-2:50PM |
On the Capacity of the Flash Memory Channel with Intercell Interference [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Yonglong Li |
National University of Singapore |
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2:50PM-3:10PM |
On Binary Codes and Non-Interactive Simulation [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Lei Yu |
National University of Singapore |
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3:10PM-3:30PM |
A Deterministic Algorithm for the Capacity of Finite-State Channels [ABSTRACT][SLIDES] |
Chengyu Wu |
University of Hong Kong |
| Afternoon session (chaired by Sidharth Jaggi) | |||
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3:45PM-4:45PM |
Capacity of Quantum Private Information Retrieval with Multiple Servers [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Masahito Hayashi |
Nagoya University |
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5:00PM-6:00PM |
Sub-additive Functionals, Information Theory, and Non-convex Optimization [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Chandra Nair |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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7:00PM |
Workshop dinner at Shanghai Garden Restaurants (speakers invited) |
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August 22, 2019 (Thursday) |
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| Morning session (chaired by Haim Permuter) | |||
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10:00AM-11:00AM |
Random Matrix Techniques in Quantum Information Theory [ABSTRACT] |
Benoit Collins |
Kyoto University |
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11:15AM-12:15PM |
Information Inequalities for Binomial Distributions [ABSTRACT] [SLIDES] |
Peter Harremoes |
Copenhagen Business College |
| 12:30PM-2:20PM | Workshop lunch at Rome Cafe Graduate House HKU (speakers invited) | ||
All speakers are invited for the workshop dinner, which will be on the third day of the workshop. For other days, please explore dinner opportunities throughout Hong Kong. Info about places to eat in Hong Kong:
http://www.openrice.com