Modified: May 4, 2007

   Organizing
   Committee:
  • Misha Chertkov
    LANL (T-13)
  • Anders Hansson
    LANL (CCS-3)
  • Allon Percus
    LANL (CCS-3)

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

  • Dimitris Achlioptas, UC Santa Cruz
  • Vladimir Chernyak, Wayne State
  • Ashish Goel, Stanford
  • Matthew Hastings, LANL
  • Ralf Koetter, TU München
  • Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC
  • Muriel Médard, MIT
  • Marc Mezard, U Paris-Sud
  • Sanjoy Mitter, MIT
  • Andrea Montanari, Stanford
  • Elchanan Mossel, UC Berkeley
  • Cristopher Moore, U NM & Santa Fe Inst.
  • Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers & Google
  • Nigel Newton, U of Essex & MIT
  • Devavrat Shah, MIT
  • Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale
  • David Tse, UC Berkeley
  • Ruediger Urbanke, EPFL
  • Martin Wainwright, UC Berkeley
  • Yair Weiss, HU Jerusalem
  • Dror Weitz, Tel-Aviv
  • Jonathan Yedidia, MERL Research Lab

Topics:

  • New approaches to information transmission
  • Graphical models of statistical inference
  • Finite-length scaling in error-correcting codes
  • Distributed source coding
  • Average-case and predictive complexity
  • Message-passing algorithms
  • Replica symmetry
  • Ad hoc networks
  • Network Coding
  • Multi-objective optimization

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