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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