[Home] [Technical Program] TECHNICAL PROGRAM:       9:00-10:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE : By Tsachy Weissman (Stanford and Technion)       Title: Where is the Action in Information Theory?       Abstract: Inspired by control theory, we attempt to introduce ‘action’ into a few classical Shannon- theoretic frameworks. This attempt gives rise to problems ranging from source coding with a limited budget of side information measurements, through coding for computer memories with a ‘rewrite’ option, to communication with ‘non-causal feedback’. I will describe these problems, along with some solutions and open questions. Based on recent and ongoing work with Haim Permuter, Yossef Steinberg, and Sergio Verdu.       10:00-10:30 Discussions over Coffee Break       10:30-12:00 COMMUNICATIONS, FEEDBACK AND TEAMS       "Directed Information, Causal Estimation and Communication in Continuous Time",       Tsachy Weissman (Stanford and Technion), Young-Han Kim (UCSD) and Haim Permuter (Ben-Gurion)       "On the Capacity of Finite State Multiple Access Channels with Asymmetric Partial State Feedback",       Giacomo Como (MIT) and Serdar Yuksel (Queen's)       "A Sequential Problem in Decentralized Detection with Communication",       Ashutosh Nayyar (Michigan) and Demos Teneketzis (Michigan)            12:00-13:30 LUNCH BREAK       13:30-15:00 DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OVER COMMUNICATION CHANNELS      "A Graphical Modeling Approach to Simplifying Decentralized Systems",       Aditya Mahajan (Yale) and Sekhar Tatikonda (Yale)       "Rate Allocation for Quantized Control over Noisy Channels",       Lei Bao (KTH), M. Skoglund (KTH), C. Fischione (KTH) and K. H. Johansson (KTH)       "The Finite-Dimensional Witsenhausen Counterexample,"       Pulkit Grover (Berkeley), Anant Sahai (Berkeley), Se Yong Park (Berkeley)         15:00-15:30 Discussions over Coffee Break