We have regular group meetings every three weeks (hopefully). Each
meeting features a technical presentation in virtually
unrestricted areas. The past meetings and forthcoming meetings are
listed below.
2005 Group Meetings
- Feb 18. Yongyi
Group Theory Mini Tutorial I
- Mar 11. Jeff
Selected topics on graph theory and applications
- April 1. Ronghui
Perron-Frobenius Theorem and applications
- April 22. Ketai
Trellis structure of block codes
- May 13. Zhong
Particle Filtering
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June 3rd. Jeff
Rateless coding over fading channels
- June 24. Lei
Low-density generator matrix codes
- July 15. Yongyi
Group Theory Mini Tutorial II
- Aug 12. Xueying
Support Vector Machine
- Aug 24 (Wednesday). Jeff
Rateless Coding over Relay Channels
- Oct 7. Open-the-Wine Party for Jeff
J. Castura and Y. Mao, "Rateless Coding over Fading
Channels," accepted by IEEE Communications Letters
- Dec 14. Ronghui
Survey Propagation
2006 Group Meetings
- Feb 13, Ketai
On the optimality of Gallager Algorithm B
- April 10. Open-the-Wine Party for Jeff
J. Castura and Y. Mao, "Rateless Coding for Wireless
Relay Channels," accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
- May 23, Jeff
"When is a message decodable over fading channels"
and Ronghui
"Towards a unified solution for constraint satisfaction
problems: A survey-propagation approach based on normal realizations"
(Practice talks for their presentations at the Queens' Conference)
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June 5th, Zhong
Raptor codes over noisy channels.
- June 26, Jeff
"On rateless coding over fading channels with delay constraints"
and Ronghui
"On generalized survey propagation: normalization and sum-product
interpretation"
(Practice talks for their presentations at ISIT 2006)
- Aug 8. Open-the-Wine Party for Ketai
K. Hu, J. Castura and Y. Mao, "Reduced-complexity
decoding of Raptor codes over fading channels,"
accepted by IEEE Globecom 2006
- Aug 21, Zhong
Bootstrap and applications
- Sep 11, Xueying
Coarse-to-fine search
- Oct 2, Ronghui
P vs NP
- Oct 30, Yifeng
Non-parametric belief propagation
- Nov 20, Ketai
"Reduced complexity decoding of Raptor codes over fading channels"
(Practice talk for Globecom 2006)
- Nov 27, Xueying
I-Measure
2007 Group Meetings
- Mar 5, Yongyi
Constructing free-energy approximations and
generalized belief propagation algorithms
- Mar 19, Yifeng
The context tree weighting method
- Mar 26, Zhong
Capacity of channel with memory
- Oct 3, Xueying
Random graph models.
- Oct 17, Zhong
Linear program decoding
- Oct 31, Yongyi
Is SP BP? (A talk based on Ronghui's research)
- Nov 14, Ronghui
Replica Theory
- Nov 28, Ali A. (invited)
Linear network coding
- Dec 12, Yifeng
Lempel-Ziv coding
2008 Group Meetings
- Jan, Ruiwen
Duality between channel capacity and rate-distortion
- Feb, Yongyi
To code or not to code: lossy source-channel communication revisit
- Feb, Zhong
Shannon meets Wiener
- Mar 4th, Dafu
Priority Encoding Transmission
- Mar 18, Yongyi
Error exponents
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