INFORMATION SYSTEMS LAB
Information for Students & Visitors
The Colloquium is organized by Prof. Andrea Montanari and graduate students, Argyris Zymnis and Sewoong Oh. To suggest speakers, please contact Prof. Montanari.
Members of ISL, CS, MSE, Statistics and Bio-x are notified via an announcement of seminars one week in advance. Those not already on the distribution list may join it by visiting mailman and enter "isl-colloq" in the bottom search box.
2008-2009 Schedule
September 18, 2008- A Statistical-Mechanical View on Code Ensembles and Random Coding Exponents
- Neri Merhav, Technion
- Packard 202
**Tuesday** September 30, 2008
- Compound Gaussian Interference Channel
- Pramod Viswanath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Packard 202, 4:00 PM
October 2, 2008
- Pricing, Competition, and Routing for Selfish and Strategic Nodes in Multi-hop Relay Networks
- Edmund Yeh, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
October 9, 2008
- The natural mathematics that arises in information theory and investment
- Thomas Cover, Stanford University
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
October 16, 2008
- Polarization Codes and the Rate of Channel Polarization
- Emre Telatar, EPFL
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
October 23, 2008
- Distributed Information in Relay Networks
- Shan-Yuan Ho, EPFL
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
- Noncoherent capacity of underspread continuous-time fading channels
- Helmut Bölcskei, ETH
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
October 30, 2008
- Combined feedforward and feedback control of flexible structures
- Lucy Pao, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Packard 202, 4:15 PM
November 6, 2008
- Information theoretic generation of secret keys
- Amin Aminzadeh Gohari, University of California, Berkeley
- Packard 202, 4:15 PM
***Wednesday*** November 12, 2008
- Aloha, that works (or a network adiabetic theorem)
- Devavrat Shah, MIT
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
November 13, 2008
- Embedded Model Predictive Control with Explicit Computational Constraints
- Dr. C.N. Jones, ETHZ
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
***Monday*** November 17, 2008
- Space-time codes of low decoding complexity
- Hikmet Sari, Telecommunications Department, SUPELEC, France
- Packard 202, 4:15 PM
***Wednesday*** November 19, 2008
- Fading Interference Channels: Sum-capacity and Separability
- Lalitha Sankar, Princeton University
- Packard 202, 4:15 PM
November 20, 2008
- Source and channel coding approaches for secure systems
- Ashish Khisti, Deutsche Telekom Labs
- Packard 101, 4:15 PM
December 11, 2008
- High Capacity SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO Systems
- Carl-Erik W. Sundberg, DoCoMo Labs
- Room, time TBA
April 9, 2009
- The MobileASL project
- Eve Riskin, University of Washington, and Sheila Hemami, Cornell University
- TBA