Communications Seminar


Theme: Feedback and Learning in Information Theory
(This year's theme is information theory, learning and feedback; however, talks are not restricted to these topics)

Winter 2010:
Time and Location: Wednesdays 4:30-5:30, Location  Jeffrey 115

  1. Wednesday, January 13 -- No Seminar

  2. Wednesday, January 20 -- Serdar: On Optimization and Convergence Properties of Information Channels in Control and Estimation Problems

  3. Wednesday, January 27 --

  4. Wednesday, February 3-- Tamas: Source Coding and Simulation

  5. Wednesday, February 10 -- Serdar:  Results on stochastic stabilization of Markov Chains and coding under non-classical information structures

  6. Wednesday, February 17 -- Shervin: Improving the Sphere-Packing Bound for Binary Codes over Memoryless
    Symmetric Channels

  7. Wednesday, February 24 -- Nevroz: An achievable rate region for the multiple-access channel with feedback, by T Cover, C Leung , 1981.

  8. Wednesday, March 3-- Ahmad: Overview of some results in compressed sensing

  9. Wednesday, March 10 -- No Seminar

  10. Wednesday, March 17-- Shih-Wei Wang (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)

  11. Wednesday, March 24 -- Yucel Altug (Cornell University):  Moderate Deviation Analysis of Channel Coding

  12. Wednesday, March 31-- Razan: A Tight Upper Bound on Discrete Entropy

  14. Wednesday, April 7 -- Joshua

  15. Thursday, April 15 -- Stark Draper, University of Wisconsin, Madison:


Fall 2009:
Time and Location: Thursdays 2:30-3:30, Location Jeffrey 422.

  1. Thursday, September 17, 2009 -- Serdar: Discussion on stochastic control, and an example of applications in communications.

  2. Thursday, September 24, 2009 --  No Seminar

  3. Thursday, October 1, 2009 --  No Seminar

  4. Thursday, October 8, 2009 -- Serdar: Dynamic programming and measurable selection Theorems

  5. Thursday, October 15, 2009 -- Nevroz: (Allerton paper) A classification of symmetric channels whose capacity is not improved by feedback.

  6. FRIDAY, October 23, 2009 -- Maxim Raginsky (Duke Univ.) will deliver two talks (on function computation and learning with  communication constraints).

  7. Thursday, October 29, 2009 -- No Seminar

  8. Thursday, November 5, 2009 -- Serdar: Optimal Causal Coding of Fully and Partially Observed Markov Sources. We will review the papers by Witsenhausen, Walrand-Varaiya and Borkar-Mitter-Tatikonda. Some new results will also be discussed.

  9. Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Bahman Gharesifard (UCSD) will present a joint work with Prof. Jorge Cortes. The title of the talk is: "Distributed strategies for generating weight-balanced and doubly stochastic digraphs".

  10. Thursday, November 19, 2009-- Serdar: Results on Optimal Causal Coding of Partially Observed Markov Sources. The decentralized case will also be discussed.

  11. Thursday, November 26, 2009 --

  12. Thursday, December 3, 2009 --