SPRING 2009
Seminars will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in Room 141 CSL unless otherwise indicated below.
- Thursday, February 19, 2009, ECE Colloquium, 4pm, 151 Everitt Lab., Dr. Tim Weller, CEO, Sample Path Ventures, "Graduating to the Dark Side: Engineers on Wall Street and in Business"
- Monday, February 23, 2009, Prof. Murat Alanyali, Boston University, "A Queuing Analysis of Opportunistic Transmission in the Downlink"
- Monday, March 9, 2009, Joseph O'Sullivan, Washington University, "On Alternating Minimization Algorithms for Computing Information Bounds"
- Monday, March, 30, 2009, Dr. Paul Cuff, Stanford University, "Investigating the Fundamental Communication Burden of Cooperation".
- Monday, April 6, 2009, Professor Dongning Guo, Northwestern University, "Single-letter Characterization of Compressed Sensing, with Application in Wireless Networks"
- Monday, April 13, 2009, Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan, "Mismatched Divergence and Universal Hypothesis Testing"
- Monday, April 20, 2009, Serap Savari, Texas A & M University, "On Optimal Fix-free Codes"
- Monday, April 27, 2009, Soumya Jana, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Canonical Theory of Multiterminal Source Coding"
- Monday, May 4, 2009, Sandeep Pradhan, University of Michigan, "Toward a New Approach to Distributed Information Processing: Harnessing Group Structure"
- Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 3 - 4:00pm, B02 CSL, Ofer Shayevitz, UCSD, "The Posterior Matching Approach in Feedback Communication"
- Friday, May 8, 2009, 11-12 p.m., Dakshi Agrawal, IBM, "Bootstrapping Coalition MANETs: Physical-layer Security"
- Monday, May 11, 2009, Dr. Maxim Raginsky, Duke University, "Information Theory Meets Statistical Learning: How to Extract Patterns From Date Using Just a Few Bits"
Volunteers and those with suggestions, please contact Professor Pramod Viswanath (pramodv@uiuc.edu). Interested in giving a talk but need a topic? Contact a Communications Group faculty member. Click here for past seminar listings. If you wish to subscribe to the Communications Seminar mailing list, go to COMM-seminar to subscribe.
The Communications Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is part of the Coordinated Science Laboratory.