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Upcoming Spring 2008

Speaker: Debasis Mitra (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent) abstract
Title: "Topics in Networking Research"
Date: Monday, May 12, 2008
Time: TBA
Location: TBA

Speaker: Martin Haenggi (Notre Dame) abstract
Title: "Point Process Models and their Applications in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks"
Date: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: 1-2pm
Location: HNB 100

Spring 2008

Speaker: Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico) abstract
Title: "Quantum Information Processing: Spingineering the Future"
Date: Friday, April 18, 2008
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: SSC 319

Speaker: Alexandros Dimakis (UC Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Coding and Message-Passing for Large-Scale Distributed Storage and Inference"
Date: Friday, April 11, 2008
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Ben Reichardt (Post Doc, California Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Making Quantum Computers Falut Tolerant"
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Time: 10-11am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Tor Sverre (Bassen) Lande (University of Oslo, Norway) abstract
Title: "Impulse-Based UWB Systems and Applications"
Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Gerhard Kramer (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent) abstract
Title: "Codes and Capacity for Bidirectional Communication on Linese, Stars, and Rings"
Date: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois-Chicago) abstract
Title: "Interference Channels with Generalized Feedback"
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2008
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Salman Avestimehr (UC Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Information Flow over Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach"
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Avi Zadock (California Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Brillouin Scattering Slow Light in Fibers, and Secure Optical Key Generation"
Date: Monday, March 10, 2008
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Sridevi Sarma (MIT and Harvard Medical School) abstract
Title: "Improving Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease Using Feedback Control"
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2008
Time: 10:30-11:30am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Narayana P. Santhanam (UC Berkeley) abstract
Title: "High Dimension Statistical Problems: Practice and Theory"
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Time: 2-3pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: PDF Slides

Andrew Viterbi Distinguished Lecture in Communications
Speaker: Jack Wolf (University of California, San Diego) abstract
Title: "From Edison to Viterbi"
Date: Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008
Reception: 3:00pm Andrus Gerontology Patio (GER)
Lecture: 4:00pm Andrus Gerontology Center Leonard Davis Auditorium

Speaker: Tareq Al-Naffouri (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) abstract
Title: "Scaling Laws of Multiple Antenna (Group) Broadcast Channels"
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008
Time: 4-5pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Kristi Morgansen (University of Washington) abstract
Title: "Nonlinear Control and Bioinspired Underwater Vehicle Systems"
Date: Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: Seaver Science Library, Rm 150

Speaker: Michele Zorzi (University of Padova) abstract
Title: "Protocol Design Issues in Underwater Acoustic Networks"
Date: Friday, Feb. 8, 2008
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: HED 116

Speaker: Desmond Lun (Broad Institute, MIT) abstract
Title: "Designing Synthetic Biological Networks"
Date: Monday, Feb. 4, 2008
Time: 11am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Shlomo Shamai (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Oblivious Cooperation of Wireless Colocated Transmitters"
Date: Friday, Feb. 1, 2008
Time: 11am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Gerhard Kramer (Bell Laboratories Alcatel-Lucent) abstract
Title: "Routing and Network Coding on Lines, Stars, and Rings"
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Massimo Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego) abstract
Title: "Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: From Probability to Physics via Information Theory"
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008
Time: 1:30-2:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Fall 2007

Speaker: Daniel N. Liu (UnWiReD Lab, University of California, Los Angeles) abstract
Title: "The Turbo Principle: Iterative Processing in Modern Wireless Communication"
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Markus Grassl (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information) abstract
Title: "Encoding Circuits for Block and Convolutional Quantum Codes"
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Alexei Ashikhmin (Bell Labs) abstract
Title: "Theoretical Limits and Practical Methods in Classical and Quantum Communications"
Date: Monday, Dec. 17, 2007
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Xinmiao Zhang (Case Western Reserve University) abstract
Title: "VLSI Architecture Design for Algebraic Soft-Decision Reed-Solomon Decoding"
Date: Monday, Dec. 10, 2007
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Dr. Farzad Parvaresh (California Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "List-Decoding of Error-Correcting Codes with Applications to Compressed Sensing"
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: General Paul J. Kern (The Cohen Group) abstract
Title: "Creating a Mobile Network with Mobile Towers and Limited Bandwidths"
Date: Monday, Dec. 3, 2007
Time: 2-3:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Ming Hsieh EE Distinguished Lecture Seminar (DLS)
Speaker: David Tse (University of California, Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Information Theory of Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach"
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007
Seminar: 3:30-4:30pm
Reception: 4:30-5:30pm
Location: GER

Speaker: Dr. Lalitha Sankar (Princeton University) abstract
Title: "Coalitions in Cooperative Wireless Networks"
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007
Time: 10:00am-11:00am
Location: EEB 248
Links: PDF Slides

Speaker: Syed Jafar (University of California, Irvine) abstract
Title: "Interference Alignment and Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks"
Date: Friday, Oct. 19, 2007
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Priti Shankar (Indian Institute of Science) abstract
Title: "Performance Improvements and Hardness Results for LDPC"
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore) abstract
Title: "Exploring Delay Tolerant Applications"
Date: Friday, Sept. 7, 2007
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Summer 2007

Speaker: Yasuhiro Koike (Keio University) abstract
Title: "Status of Photonics Polymer for `Fiber-to-the-Display'"
Date: Friday, August 24, 2007
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Jon Yard (Caltech) abstract
Title: "Optimal Quantum Data Compression with Side Information at the Sender and Receiver"
Date: Monday, July 16, 2007
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: SSC 319

Speaker: David Yevick (University of Waterloo) abstract
Title: "Transition Matrix Methods"
Date: Monday, June 25, 2007
Time: 11:00am
Location: EEB 539

Spring 2007

Speaker: Nihar Jindal (University of Minnesota) abstract
Title: "Optimizing Frequency Reuse in Ad-Hoc Networks"
Date: Thursday, May 24, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Amir Bennatan (Princeton University) abstract
Title: "Design and Analysis of Non-Binary LDPC Codes for Bandwidth-Efficient Communications"
Date: Monday, May 21, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Marios Kountouris (Eurecom Institute, France) abstract
Title: "The Cardinal Role of Scheduling in Multiuser MIMO Downlink Systems"
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [ PDF Slides ]

Speaker: Volkan Rodoplu (University of California, Santa Barbara) abstract
Title: "QoS Maps for Mobile Wireless Networks: Coherence Time versus Node Mobility"
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2007
Time: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Location: SSC 319

Speaker: Andrew Childs (California Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Quantum Algorithms and Quantum State Identification"
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Time: 11am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Mikael Skoglund (KTH Sweden) abstract
Title: "Quantized Feedback Design for MIMO Broadcast Channels"
Date: Friday, April 13, 2007
Time: 3:00pm-4:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Yossi Sayr (FTW Vienna, Austria) abstract
Title: "Thoughts on Mixing for EXIT Charts"
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Thomas Murphy (University of Maryland) abstract
Title: "High Speed Polarization Independent Signal Processing using Nonlinear Optics"
Date: Friday, March 30, 2007
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: EEB 108

Speaker: Benjamin Eggleton (University of Sydney) abstract
Title: "All-Optical Control on a Chip"
Date: Friday, March 30, 2007
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 108

Speaker: Douglas Baney (Agilent Laboratories) abstract
Title: "Life in an Industrial Central Research Laboratory: An Insiders View"
Date: Friday, March 30, 2007
Time: 10:00am-11:00am
Location: EEB 108

Speaker: Andreas Molisch (Lund University) abstract
Title: "Wireless Propagation Channels and Their Impact On System Design"
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2007
Time: 10:00-11:00am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Byeong Gi Lee (Seoul National University) abstract
Title: "WiBro -- A 2.3GHz Mobile WiMAX System: Standards, System Development and Deployment"
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [PDF of Slides]

Speaker: Yingbin Grace Liang (Princeton University) abstract
Title: "Achieving Secure Communication Over Wireless Channels"
Date: Monday, March 26, 2007
Time: 10:45-11:45am
Location: EEB 248

Viterbi Distinguished Lecture in Communication
Speaker: Robert McEliece (California Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Learning to Teach the Viterbi Algorithm"
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Reception Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Lecture Time: 5:00-6:15pm
Location: Gerontology Auditorium

Speaker: Robert Spekkens (University of Cambridge) abstract
Title: "Contextuality from a Quantum Information-Theoretic Perspective"
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Olgica Milenkovic (University of Colorado, Boulder) abstract
Title: "Probabilistic Binning Transforms with Applications to Computer Science and Coding Theory"
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2007
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Chandra Nair (Microsoft Research) abstract
Title: "New Approaches in Large Systems: Theory and Algorithms"
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2007
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Viv Kendon (University of Leeds) abstract
Title: "Optimal Computation with Noisy Quantum Walks"
Date: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

EE Department DLS Seminar
Speaker: Kwabena Boahen (Stanford) abstract
Title: "Neurogrid: Emulating a Million Neurons in the Cortex"
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: GER 124

Speaker: Joerg Kliewer abstract
Title: "Practical Network Coding by Binary Superposition of Codewords: Applications for Coded Cooperation and Distributed Coding"
Date: Monday, Feb. 5, 2007
Time: 11:15am-12:15pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Shlomo Shamai (Technion) abstract
Title: "Decentralized Processing: An Information Theoretic Perspective"
Date: Friday, Feb. 2, 2007
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: PDF Slides

Speaker: Ivana Maric (Stanford University) abstract
Title: "The Capacity of Interference Channels with Partial Transmitter Cooperation"
Date: Friday, Feb. 2, 2007
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: EEB 248
Links: PowerPoint Slides

Speaker: Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore) abstract
Title: "Cooperative Networking -- Searching for Algorithms in Logarithms"
Date: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

EE Department DLS Seminar
Speaker: John Hayes (University of Michigan) abstract
Title: "Handling Transient Errors in Logic Circuits"
Date: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: GER 124

Speaker: Massimo Franceschetti (University of California, San Diego) abstract
Title: "A Physical Approach to Multiple Antenna Communication"
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: SSC 319
Links: [ Franceschetti Homepage][PowerPoint Slides]

Fall 2006

EE Department Seminar
Speaker: Sirin Tekinay (National Science Foundation, CISE)
Title: "From Communications Research to Science of Interaction: A Year in the Life of an NSF Program Officer"
Date: Monday, Dec. 4, 2006
Time: 10:30am-11:30am
Location: EEB 248
Links: PowerPoint Slides

CSI Extended Seminar (1.5 hours)
Speaker: Michael Pursley (Clemson University) abstract
Title: "Protocols for Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks"
Date: Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo) abstract
Title: "Quantum Network Communication -- The Butterfly and Beyond"
Date: Monday, Dec. 4, 2006
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: SSC 319
Links: [ PDF Slides]

Speaker: Michael Chertkov (Los Alamos National Laboratory) abstract
Title: "Loop Calculus in Statistical Physics and Information Theory"
Date: Monday, Nov. 27, 2006
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248
Links: [ PDF Slides]

CSI "Short Course" (2 hours)
Speaker: Olgica Milenkovic (University of Colorado) abstract
Title: "Error-Control and Constrained Coding Solutions for DNA Microarrays and Aptamer Array Designs"
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm
Location: *Zumberge Hall (ZHS 163)
[*This is a location change from previous posting]
Links: [ PowerPoint Slides]

Speaker: Sergio Verdu (Princeton University) abstract
Title: "The Information Lost in Erasures"
Date: Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Antonia Tulino (University of Naples) abstract
Title: "Interface Between Information Theory and Estimation Theory: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS"
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2006
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Aslan Tchamkerten (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "From Universal Channel Coding to the Tracking of Stopping Times"
Date: Monday, Nov. 13, 2006
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Fundamental Limits on Wide Bandwidth Signal Acquisition (A Convexity and Optimization Perspective)"
Date: Friday, Nov. 10, 2006
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: SSC 319

CSI "Short Course" (3.5 hours)
Speaker: Pascal Vontobel (HP Labs) abstract
Title: "Coding and Optimization"
Date: Friday, Nov. 10, 2006
Time: 9:30am-1:00pm
Location: Zumberge Hall (ZHS 360)
Links: .tar file of slides

Speaker: Ian O'Donnell (University of California, Berkeley) abstract
Title: "A Baseband, Impulse Ultra Wideband Transceiver for Low Power Applications"
Date: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Tara Javidi (University of California, San Diego) abstract
Title: "Operating Point for MIMO Multiple Access Channel with Delay Sensitive Bursty Traffic"
Date: Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Time: 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: SSC 319
Links: [PDF of Slides]

Speaker: James Heath (Caltech) abstract
Title: "A Systems Aproach to Large-Scale Molecular and Nanoelectronic Memory and Logic Circuits"
Date: Monday, Oct. 9, 2006
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: Seaver Science Auditorium

Speaker: Ruediger Urbanke (EPFL Lausanne) abstract
Title: "Finite-Length Optimization of Iterative Coding Systems Via Scaling"
Date: Friday, Sept. 22, 2006
Time: *12:15pm-1:15pm
Location: *EEB 248
[*Note: Time/Location has changed since previous posting]
Links: [ Ruediger Urbanke Homepage][PDF of Slides]

Speaker: Ezio Biglieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) abstract
Title: "Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment"
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006
Time: *10:30am-11:30am *Note time change from previous posting
Location: *HNB 107 *Note location change from previous posting
Links: [Power Point Slides]

Speaker: Sheldon Ross (University of Southern California) abstract
Title: "Some New Variance Reduction Ideas in Simulation"
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [PDF of Slides]

Speaker: Jinsoo Bae (Sejong University) abstract
Title: "Correlation Coefficients among Some Statistics Used for Signal Detection"
Date: Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [PDF of Slides]

Speaker: Emina Soljanin (Math Sciences Research Center, Bell Labs) abstract
Title: "On Average Throughput and Alphabet Size in Network Coding"
Date: Monday, Aug. 28, 2006
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [PDF of Slides]

Summer 2006

Speaker: Muriel Medard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) abstract
Title: "Network Coding for Wireless Networks"
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248
Links: [Prof. Medard Webpage][PowerPoint Slides]

Speaker: Franko Kueppers (University of Arizona) abstract
Title: "Multichannel and Multirate All-Optical Clock Recovery"
Date: Thursday, July 6, 2006
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: *EEB 539 (*location changed from last posting)

Speaker: Hsi-Sheng Goan (National Taiwan University) abstract
Title: "Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Mesoscopic Circuits: High-Fidelity Measurement and Quantum Feedback Control"
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: SSL 150
Links: Prof. Goan Homepage

Speaker: Ian Percival (University of London) abstract
Title: "Photodetection and Locality"
Date: Friday, June 23, 2006
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: SSL 150

Spring 2006

Speaker: Dan Stancil (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: "Super-Resolution Focusing and Nulling in Rich Multipath Environments using Time-Reversal Techniques"
Date: Friday, May 5, 2006
Time: 1:30-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Aria Nosratinia (University of Texas at Dallas) abstract
Title: "Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Node Assignment Strategies"
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Time: 10:00am-11:00am (**Note the time change from previous posting)
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Antonia Tulino (University of Naples) abstract
Title: "Eigenvalues and Singular Values of Random Matrices: Theory and Applications"
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Alon Orlitsky (University of California, San Diego) abstract
Title: "Information Theory and Probability Estimation: From Shannon to Shakespeare via Laplace, Good, Turing, Hardy, Ramanujan, and Fisher"
Date: Friday, April 7, 2006
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Upamanyu Madhow (University of California, Santa Barbara) abstract
Title: "Rethinking Sensor Networks from the Physical Layer Up"
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Time: 3:30-4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Anant Sahai (University of California, Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Delay, Feedback, and the Price of Ignorance"
Date: Friday, March 3, 2006
Time: 11:00am-noon
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Michael G. Taylor (University College London) abstract
Title: "Coherent Detection for Fiber Optic Networks"
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2006
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Location: EEB 539

Fall 2005

Speaker: Jean Walrand (University of California, Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Game Theory and Pricing of Internet Services"
Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: GER First Floor

Speaker: Stark Draper (University of California, Berkeley) abstract
Title: "Maximizing Rate and Reliability in Channels with Feedback"
Date: Monday, December 12, 2005
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Dariush Divslara and Chris Jones (Jet Propulsion Lab) abstract
Title: "Protograph Based LDPC Codes with Minimum Distance Linearly Growing with Block Size"
Date: Wednesday 7 December 2005
Time: 2:15-3:30pm
Location: EEB-248

Speaker: Patrick Hayden (McGill University) abstract
Title: "Quantum Information's First Family, Revisited"
Date: Tuesday 22 November 2005
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Hilary Carteret (University of Calgary) abstract
Title: "Exact Quantum Circuits for Measuring Entanglement"
Date: Wednesday 9 November 2005
Time: 3:00-4:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Andy Molisch (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA, and Lund University, Sweden) abstract
Title: "Antenna Selection and RF Preprocessing for MIMO Systems"
Date: Tuesday 8 November 2005
Time: 2:00-3:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Sergio Verdu (Princeton University) abstract
Title: "Estimation Theory and Mutual Information"
Date: Wednesday 2 November 2005
Time: 11:00am
Location: HNB Auditorium

Speaker: Saswat Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur) abstract
Title: "Physical Layer Issues in Wireless Networks"
Date: Wednesday 26 October 2005
Time: 2:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Mari Kobayashi (Tech Univ of Catalunya) abstract
Title: "Stability Optimal Resource Allocation in Gaussian MIMO-BC: Theory and Practical Approaches"
Date: Tuesday 18 October 2005
Time: 11:00 am
Location: EEB 539

Speaker: Kurt Jacobs (LSU)
Title: "Using Feedback to Increase Information About Quantum States"
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2005
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: EEB 248

Summer 2005

Speaker: Kaveh Khodjasteh (University of Toronto)
Title: "Precise Feedback-Free Decoupling and Control of Qubits"
Date: Wednesday 18 May 2005
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: EEB 248

Spring 2005

Speaker: Prof. Youjian Liu (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Title: "The Impact of Feedback on Communication Systems: Capacity and Complexity"
Date: Wednesday 4 May 2005
Time: 11:15 am
Location: SSC 319

Speaker: Dr. Alexei Ashikhmin (Bell Labs)
Title: "Space-Time Reed-Muller Codes for Noncoherent MIMO Transmission"
Date: Thursday 12 May 2005
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Dr. Ada S.Y. Poon (SiBeam)
Title: "Use of Spatial Dimension in Wireless Communication"
Date: Monday 4 April 2005
Time: 3:45 pm
Location: HNB 107

Speaker: Hoi-Kwong Lo (Toronto)
Title: "Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution-The Best of Both Worlds" abstract
Date: Wednesday 2 March 2005
Time: 11:00 am
Location: EEB-248

Speaker: Elif Uysal-Biyikoglu (MIT)
Title: "Multiuser Scheduling in Wireless Networks"
Date: Thursday 27 January 2005
Time: 10:30-11:30 am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Michail Tsatsanis (Aktino, Inc.)
Title: "Signal Processing Challenges in DSL Networks"
Date: Wednesday 19 January 2005
Time: 10:00-11:00 am
Location: PHE 223

Speaker: Aditya Ramamoorthy (UCLA)
Title: "Generalized ACE codes" abstract
Date: Wednesday 12 January 2005
Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Fall 2004

Speaker: Mark Miller (CTO ViaSat)
Title: "Broadband Internet Access for Mobile Platforms" abstract
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2004
Time: 10:30 - 11:30am
Location: HNB 107

Speaker: Prof. Oliver Collins (Notre Dame)
Title: "Coding: from Information Theory to Hardware"
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004
Time: 9:30 - 10:30am
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Prof. Andrew Viterbi (USC)
Title: "Estimating Capacity of an Interference-limited Cellular Network" abstract
Date: Friday, November 12, 2004
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: Gerontology Auditorium

Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Caire (Institute Eurecom)
Title: "The MIMO-ARQ channel: optimal diversity-multiplexing-delay tradeoff" abstract
Date: Friday, November 12, 2004
Time: 10:00 am
Location: HNB 100

Speaker: Ian O'Donnell (UC Berkeley)
Title: "A Single Chip, Low Power, Impulse-UWB Transceiver for Low-Rate, Indoor, Wireless Systems" abstract
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2004
Time: 2:30 - 3:30pm
Location: HNB 107

Speaker: Dr. Christina Fragouli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Title: "Information Flow Decomposition for Network Coding" abstract
Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Time: 3:15 - 4:15pm
Location: HNB 107

Speaker: Dr. Saswati Sarkar (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "Intrusion Detection in Ad hoc Networks" abstract
Date: Monday, October 11, 2004
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Location: EEB-248

Speaker: Masoud Sharif (Caltech)
Title: "MIMO Broadcast Channels with Partial CSI: Throughput, Fairness, and Delay" abstract
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: EEB-248

Speaker: Dr. Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (National ICT Australia)
Title: "Nonlinear Signal Processing in Feedback Loops for Single Frequency Tracking" abstract
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: EEB-539

Speaker: Dr. Marc D. Riedel (Caltech)
Title: "Cyclic Combinational Circuits" abstract
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2004
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Dr. Giuseppe Caire (Institute Eurecom)
Title: "Lattice space-time codes, MMSE-GDFE sphere decoders and the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of MIMO channels" abstract
Date: Monday, August 16, 2004
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: HNB 107 LOCATION CHANGE

Speaker: Dr. Eytan Modiano (MIT)
Title: "Increasing reliability in ad hoc networks through diversity routing" abstract
Date: Wednesay, August 18, 2004
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: EEB 248

Speaker: Dr. Gerhard Kramer (Bell Labs)
Title: "Coding Strategies and Capacity Theorems for Relay Networks" abstract
Date: Friday, August 20, 2004
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Location: EEB-248

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Spring 2004

Presented

Speaker: Dr. Ness Shroff
Title: "Opportunistic Scheduling in Wireless Communication Networks"
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: EEB-248

Speaker: Dr. Larry Milstein, UCSD
Title: "Recent Results in Ultra Wideband Communications"
Date: Friday, April 23, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Erik Winfree
Title: "Fault-Tolerance in Biochemical Systems: From Molecular-Scale to Avogadro-Scale Engineering"
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Igor Devetak
Title: "Quantum Information Theory: Overview and Recent Results"
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Dowling, JPL
Title: "Optical Quantum Communication"
Date: Friday, March 12, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Bixio Rimoldi, EPFL, Lausanne
Title: "Cost-Distortion-Optimal Communication Via Measure-Matching: Key Ideas And Application To Neural Communication"
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Robert W. Heath, Jr., UT at Austin
Title: "Quantized Feedback for MIMO-OFDM Systems"
Date: Monday, March 1, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Debbie Leung, Caltech
Title: "Resources in Quantum Information Theory"
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Speaker: Prof. H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Title: "The Wireless Revolution: A Signal Processing Perspective"
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2004

Speaker: Prof. Keith Chugg, USC
Title: "Iterative Detection and Applications"
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Conor Heneghan, University College, Dublin
Title: "Channel Shortening for Multicarrier Systems"
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Speaker: Dr. Michael J. Neely, University of Southern California
Title: "Dynamic Resource Allocation, Control, and Pricing for Wireless Networks"
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2004

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Fall 2003

Speaker: Dr. Gianluigi Ferrai, University of Parma
Title: "A Bottom-Up Approach to Ad Hoc Wireless Networks"
Date: Friday, December 5, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Thomas Kaiser, University of Duisburg-Essen
Title: "On UWB & Multiple Antennas"
Date: Monday, December 1, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Jack K. Holmes, The Aerospace Corporation
Title: "Modernized Signals used in the Global Positioning System (GPS)"
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Speaker: Dr. G. David Forney, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: "On the role of MMSE estimation in approaching the information-theoretic limits of linear Gaussian channels: Shannon meets Wiener"
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003

Speaker:(EE Distinguished Lecturer Series) Dr. Lloyd R. Welch, USC
Title: "Hidden Markov Models and the Baum-Welch Algorithm"
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Christopher P. Silva, The Aerospace Corporation
Title: "The Polyspectral Method - A New Approach to Nonlinear System-Level Modeling and Distortion Compensation"
Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Robert Calderbank, Princeton University
Title: "Quantum Computers and Cellular Phones"
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Speaker: Mr. Wing Ho (Andy) Yuen, Rutgers University
Title: "Effect of Node Non-cooperation and Node Mobility on Mobile Infostation Networks"
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Speaker: Dr. Jay Damask
Title: "Construction and Applications of Programmable PMD Sources"
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2003