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26/09/2014 - 11:35 - Jonathan Scarlett defends his thesis
Jonathan Scarlett successfully defended his thesis "Reliable Communication Under Mismatched Decoding" in Cambridge on the 8th of August. His examiners were Ramji Venkataramanan and Amos Lapidoth. Download the thesis    
21/07/2014 - 12:05 - Invited Paper at ISWCS 2014
ITC members have been invited to the 2014 International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems (ISWCS) to be held in Barcelona, August 2014. Alfonso Martinez will present the following paper A. Martinez, J. Scarlett, M. Dalai, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, "A complex-integration approach to the saddlepoint approximation for random-coding bounds"  
11/07/2014 - 14:41 - ITC invited talk at 2014 SPCOM
ITC members have been invited to the 2014 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) to be held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, July 2014. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas will give the talk "Error Probability and Hypothesis Testing" based on work with G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Tauste and A. Martinez.
11/07/2014 - 14:35 - ITC papers at ISIT 2014
ITC members have presented the following papers at the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu, USA. J. Scarlett, A. Martinez, and A. Guillén i Fàbregas, "The Saddlepoint Approximation: Unified Random Coding Asymptotics for Fixed and Varying Rates" J. Scarlett, and V. Y. F. Tan, "Second-Order Asymptotics for...
23/05/2014 - 06:29 - New papers
ITC members publish new results on mismatched decoding and joint source-channel coding A. Tauste Campo, G. Vazquez-Vilar, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, T. Koch and A. Martinez, “A Derivation of the Source-Channel Error Exponent using Non-identical Product Distributions”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 3209-3217, June 2014.   J. Scarlett,...
16/05/2014 - 06:55 - ITC invited talks at 2014 Beyond iid Workshop
ITC members have been invited to the 2014 Beyond iid Workshop at the National University of Singapore, May 2014 Jon Scarlett will present a poster on "Cost Constrained Random Coding: Theory and Applications" based on work with A. Martinez and A. Guillén i Fàbregas. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas will give the talk "Error Probability and Hypothesis Testing...
13/05/2014 - 11:35 - Subhrakanti Dey visits ITC
Subhrakanti Dey, Professor of Wireless Sensor Networks at Uppsala University, Sweden, visited ITC on 8-9 May 2014. He gave a talk on throughput scaling laws for cognitive multiple access channels.
02/04/2014 - 09:35 - Mehdi Molkaraie visits ITC
Mehdi Molkaraie, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, will visit ITC from 7-11 April 2014. Mehdi will also give 2 talks on computing the capacity and information rates of constrained channels, and on his recent work on the Ising model and graphical models.
02/04/2014 - 09:29 - Gonzalo Vazquez Vilar visits Princeton University
ITC member Gonzalo Vazquez Vilar will visit Professor Sergio Verdú at Princeton University from April-June 2014.
12/03/2014 - 22:07 - Marco Dalai visits ITC
Marco Dalai, from Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy, is visiting ITC this week. Marco will also give a seminar on his work on the reliability function.
20/02/2014 - 16:14 - WiCom and ITC co-organize workshop in honor of Ezio Biglieri
Angel Lozano and Albert Guillén i Fàbregas co-organize the International Workshop on Frontiers of Telecommunications and Coding, in honor of Ezio Biglieri’s 70th birthday.
20/02/2014 - 15:59 - ITC papers at IZS 2014
ITC members will present the following invited papers at the 2014 International Zurich Seminar on Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2013, organized by the ETH Zurich. J. Scarlett, L. Peng, N. Merhav, A. Martinez, A. Guillén i Fàbregas, "Expurgated Random-Coding Ensembles: Exponents, Refinements and Connections" J. Scarlett, "Second-Order...