2006-2007 Schedule

• **Wednesday** October 11, 2006, 4:00pm refreshments, 4:15pm talk.
  • Erasure Entropy
  • Sergio Verdu, Princeton
  • Packard 202

• **Wednesday** October 18, 2006, 4:00pm refreshments, 4:15pm talk.
  • A New Look at Convexity, Duality, and Optimization
  • Dimitri Bertsekas, MIT
  • Packard 202

• October 26, 2006
  • Efficient algorithms for Three Problems in Networks
  • Devavrat Shah, MIT
  • Packard 101

• November 2, 2006
  • Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Control of Wireless Networks
  • Edmund Yeh, Yale
  • Packard 101

• November 9, 2006
  • Information-efficient Writing
  • David MacKay, Cambridge
  • Packard 101

• **Monday** November 13, 2006, 4:00pm refreshments, 4:15pm talk
  • Distributed Signal Processing for Sensor Networks
  • Martin Vetterli, EPFL & UC Berkeley
  • Packard 202

• November 16, 2006
  • The Wisdom of Foolishness: Passing the Quals and Beyond
  • Marty Hellman, Stanford
  • Packard 101

• November 30, 2006
  • Role of Noisy Feedback in Communication
  • Young-Han Kim, UCSD
  • Packard 101

• December 7, 2006
  • Hierarchical Cooperation Achieves Optimal Capacity Scaling in Ad Hoc
  • David Tse, UC Berkeley
  • Packard 101

• January 18, 2007
  • The human genome: The granddaddy of noisy channels
  • Gill Bejerano, Stanford
  • Packard 202

• February 1, 2007
  • "Cognitive" Memory and its Applications
  • Bernard Widrow, Stanford University
  • Packard 101

• **11am Friday** February 2, 2007
  • Rethinking Biased Estimation: Improving Maximum Likelihood and the Cramer-Rao Bound
  • Yonina Eldar, Technion
  • Packard 204

• **4pm Tuesday** February 6, 2007 (Joint with Starlab)
  • Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment
  • Ezio Biglieri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  • Packard 202

• February 8, 2007
  • Using mathematical modeling to help understand planar cell polarity in fly wings
  • Claire Tomlin, Stanford and Berkeley
  • Packard 101

• February 15, 2007
  • Reconstruction of and Optimization on Networks
  • Elchanan Mossel, Berkeley
  • Packard 101

• March 1, 2007
  • Finding Conserved Structure in Protein Interaction Networks
  • Richard Karp, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute
  • Packard 101

• March 8, 2007
  • Amplification, Threshold, and Combinatorial Control: The Device Physics of Gene Regulation in Bacteria
  • Terry Hwa, UCSD
  • Packard 101

• **SPECIAL SEMINAR** 11am Friday March 9, 2007
  • A Bayesian Probability Calculus for Density Matrices
  • Manfred K. Warmuth, UC Santa Cruz
  • Packard 101

• April 19, 2007
  • Models and Algorithms for Large-scale Networks
  • Amin Saberi, Stanford
  • Packard 101

• April 26, 2007
  • Economic-based Mechanisms for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing
  • Randy Berry, Northwestern University
  • Packard 101

• **SPECIAL SEMINAR** May 1st, 2007, 2:45pm refreshments, 3:00pm talk
  • A New Look at Quadratic Gaussian Network Compression
  • Aaron Wagner, Cornell University
  • Packard 202

• May 3, 2007
  • Optimization Beyond Optimality: New Trends in Networking Applications
  • Mung Chiang, Princeton
  • Packard 101

• May 10, 2007
  • Capacity and dependence in communication networks
  • Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley
  • Packard 101

• May 17, 2007
  • Fountain Codes: Theory and Practice
  • Michael Luby, Digital Fountain
  • Packard 101

• May 31, 2007
  • Sequential Decision Making under Parameter Uncertainty
  • Shie Mannor, McGill University
  • Packard 101

• ***SPECIAL SEMINAR*** August 9, 2007, 3:00pm
  • Can 100 speakers talk for 30-min each in the same room within 1 hour and with zero interference to each other's audience ?
  • Syed Ali Jafar, U.C. Irvine
  • Packard 202

• ***SPECIAL SEMINAR*** September 7, 2007, 4:00pm
  • Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters
  • Shlomo Shamai, Technion
  • Packard 202