NAIST2010 Program Overview

Program of the 2010 School of Information Theory

Time Thursday Aug. 5 Friday Aug. 6 Saturday Aug. 7 Sunday Aug. 8
8:30am Breakfast &
Registration (at 8:15am)
Breakfast Breakfast Breakfast
9:00am Padovani Lecture
Jack Wolf

Can an Information Theorist Be Happy in a Center for Information Storage?
Emmanuel Candès
Information Theory of Data Matrices: Recovery from Incomplete and Corrupted Entries
Sergio Verdú
Reading Shannon
Rüdiger Urbanke
Approaching Shannon
10:15am Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:45am Padovani Lecture
Jack Wolf

Can an Information Theorist Be Happy in a Center for Information Storage?
Emmanuel Candès
Information Theory of Data Matrices: Recovery from Incomplete and Corrupted Entries
Sergio Verdú
Reading Shannon
Rüdiger Urbanke
Approaching Shannon
11:45am Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00pm Andrea Goldsmith
Seeking Shannon Capacity of Wireless Channels and Networks
Alon Orlitsky
Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets
Student Poster Presentations 3
(1:30-3:30)
Student Poster Presentations 5
(until 3:00)
2:15pm Short Break Short Break    
2:30pm Andrea Goldsmith
Seeking Shannon Capacity of Wireless Channels and Networks
Alon Orlitsky
Probability Estimation over Large Alphabets
   
3:30pm Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break School Ends
4:00pm
6:00pm
Student Poster Presentations 1 Student Poster Presentations 2 Student Poster Presentations 4  
6:45pm Picnic Dinner, Speaker & Organizer Dinner Dinner  

The school is expected to finish around 3:00pm on August 8.