Stanford University 2006


Lecture Home
Thursday, July 6, 2006

  Clark Center Auditorium

9:15am Welcome
Abbas El Gamal, ISL Director, Stanford University
9:30am Morning Colloquium
Chair: Bernard Levy, UC Davis

"Digital Geometry for Image Analysis Tasks"     Abstract
Alfred Bruckstein, Technion

"Distributed Processing over Adaptive Networks"     Abstract
Ali Sayed, UC Los Angeles

"Integrating Data, Models and Reasoning for Patient Monitoring in Critical Care"
George Verghese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:00pm Break
1:30pm Q&A with TK
Chair: SY Kung, Princeton University
An audience dialogue with Thomas Kailath
Video
3:00pm The Kailath Lecture
Chair: Abraham Lempel, HP Labs Israel
"On Universal Modelling:
How to Learn the Most from an Individual Sequence"

Jacob Ziv, Technion
Slides     Video
4:30pm Reception at the Clark Center
6:30pm Banquet honoring Jacob Ziv at the Faculty Club

Friday, July 7, 2006

  Packard 101

Colloquium on Feedback Communications
celebrating the 40th anniversary of
the Schalkwijk-Kailath Algorithm
9:15am Welcome
Colloquium Organizer: Tsachy Weissman, Stanford University

Morning Chair: Alon Orlitsky, UC San Diego
9:30am "Noisy Channels with Feedback: The First Fifty Years"
Sergio Verdu, Princeton University
10:00am "Gaussian Feedback Capacity"     Abstract     Slides
Young-Han Kim, Stanford University
10:20am "Robustness and Sensitivity of the Schalkwijk-Kailath Scheme"     Abstract
Tsachy Weissman, Stanford University
10:40am "A Coding Scheme for Additive White Noise Channels with Feedback Corrupted by Quantization or Bounded Noise"
Abstract
Nuno C. Martins, University of Maryland
11:00am Break
11:20am "Achieving the Empirical Capacity of Individual Noise Channels Using Feedback"
Meir Feder, Tel Aviv University
11:50am "An MDP Approach to Computing Feedback Capacity"     Abstract
Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University
12:10pm "The Capacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback" Abstract  Slides
Haim Permuter, Stanford University
12:30pm Break

Afternoon Chair: Dirk Slock, Eurecom Institute
2:00pm "Interactive Communication: The Role of Feedback
in Source Coding"     Abstract
Alon Orlitsky, UC San Diego
2:30pm "Increasing Reliability Using Only Noisy Feedback"     Abstract     Slides
Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley
2:50pm "Noisy Feedback Is Strictly Better Than No Feedback on the Gaussian MAC"     Abstract     Slides
Michele Wigger, ETH Zurich
3:10pm "Dependence-Balance Bounds and Capacity Results for the Gaussian MAC with Feedback"     Abstract
Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley
3:30pm "Decentralized Processing: The Impact of a Common Finite Capacity Feedback Link"     Abstract     Slides
Shlomo Shamai, Technion
4:00pm Closing Reception