Salim El Rouayheb - Shannon Channel

This channel will feature a series of Google Hangout talks related to the general area of information theory.

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Upcoming talks:

1. S02E06: Dr. Po-Ling Loh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Statistical Inference for Infectious Disease Modeling, Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 11:00 AM ET.

List of the past talks:

1. S02E05: Dr. Varun Jog, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Information-theoretic Perspectives on Learning Algorithms, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. (Slides)

2. S02E04: Dr. Mary Wootters, New Tricks for Old Codes: Regenerating Codes Edition , Monday, April 23, 2018.

3. S02E03: Dr. Jayadev Acharya, Estimating Symmetric Properties of Distributions: Maximum Likelihood Strikes Back!, Monday, March 5, 2018. (Slides)

4. S02E02: Dr. Ravi Tandon, Communication-efficient Distributed Learning: Information-theoretic Perspectives & Tradeoffs, Monday, February 19, 2018.

5. S02E01: Dr. Bobak Nazer, Towards an Algebraic Network Information Theory, Tuesday, June 13, 2017.

6. S01E06: Dr. Anand Sarwate, From Local to Distributed Differential Privacy, Tuesday, April 26, 2016.

7. S01E05: Dr. Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Less Talking More Learning: Avoiding Coordination In Parallel Machine Learning Algorithms, Wednesday, April 20, 2016.

8. S01E04: Dr. Ilan Shomorony, The DNA Assembly Problem: Designing algorithms based on Information Limits, Monday, March 28, 2016.

9. S01E03: Dr. Pulkit Grover, Error-correction and Suppression in Communication and Computing: a Tradeoff Between Information and Energy Dissipation, Monday, November 23, 2015.

10. S01E02: Dr. Yonatan Kaspi, Searching with Measurement Dependent Noise, Monday, July 13, 2015.
    

11. S01E01: Dr. Alex Sprintson, Secure Network Coding Schemes for Wireless and Data Storage Networks - Part 2, Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
    

12. Pilot: Dr. Alex Sprintson, Secure Network Coding Schemes for Wireless and Data Storage Networks - Part 1, Wednesday, May 27, 2015.