IEEE ITW 2012: Program

Zurich time	Monday, September 3	Tuesday, September 4	Wednesday, September 5	Thursday, September 6	Friday, September 7
8:30 ‑ 9:30 am	PMo: Plenary Monday	PTu: Plenary Tuesday	PWe: Plenary Wednesday	PTh: Plenary Thursday	PFr: Plenary Friday
9:30 ‑ 9:45 am	BMoM: Break Monday Morning	BTuM: Break Tuesday Morning	BWeM: Break Wednesday Morning	BThM: Break Thursday Morning	BFrM: Break Friday Morning
9:45 ‑ 10:45 am	SMoM: Spotlight Monday Morning	STuM: Spotlight Tuesday Morning	SWeM: Spotlight Wednesday Morning	SThM: Spotlight Thursday Morning	SFrM: Spotlight Friday Morning
10:45 ‑ 11:00 am	SMoM: Spotlight Monday Morning	STuM: Spotlight Tuesday Morning	PoWeM: Posters Wednesday Morning	SThM: Spotlight Thursday Morning	SFrM: Spotlight Friday Morning
11:00 am ‑ 12:30 pm	PoMoM: Posters Monday Morning	PoTuM: Posters Tuesday Morning	PoWeM: Posters Wednesday Morning	PoThM: Poster Thursday Morning	PoFrM: Posters Friday Morning
12:30 ‑ 12:45 pm
12:45 ‑ 1:00 pm			EWeA: Excursions -- Varying Duration
1:00 ‑ 2:15 pm	OMoA: Outreach Monday Afternoon -- Information Theoretic Cryptography	OTuA: Outreach Tuesday Afternoon - Connections to Biology		OThA: Outreach Thursday Afternoon - Machine Learning	SFrA1: Spotlight Friday Afternoon 1
2:15 ‑ 2:30 pm		OTuA: Outreach Tuesday Afternoon - Connections to Biology		OThA: Outreach Thursday Afternoon - Machine Learning	PoFrA1: Poster Friday Afternoon 1
2:30 ‑ 2:45 pm	BMoA: Break Monday Afternoon	BTuA: Break Tuesday Afternoon		BThA: Break Thursday Afternoon
2:45 ‑ 4:00 pm	SMoA: Spotlight Monday Afternoon	STuA: Spotlight Tuesday Afternoon		SThA: Spotlight Thursday Afternoon
4:00 ‑ 4:05 pm	PoMoA: Posters Monday Afternoon	STuA: Spotlight Tuesday Afternoon		SThA: Spotlight Thursday Afternoon	SFrA2: Spotlight Friday Afternoon 2
4:05 ‑ 4:55 pm		PoTuA: Posters Tuesday Afternoon		PoThA: Posters Thursday Afternoon	SFrA2: Spotlight Friday Afternoon 2
4:55 ‑ 6:00 pm		PoTuA: Posters Tuesday Afternoon		PoThA: Posters Thursday Afternoon	PoFrA2: Posters Friday Afternoon 2
6:00 ‑ 6:15 pm					PoFrA2: Posters Friday Afternoon 2
6:15 ‑ 7:00 pm	WMoA: Welcome Reception -- Rolex Learning Center
7:00 ‑ 7:30 pm	WMoA: Welcome Reception -- Rolex Learning Center			BaThA: Banquet -- Lausanne Palace
7:30 ‑ 10:00 pm				BaThA: Banquet -- Lausanne Palace

Mon, 9 3

Mon, 9 3 8:30 - 9:30

PMo: Plenary Monday

Chair: Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

An information-theoretic protocol compiler: Amit Sahai (UCLA, USA)

Mon, 9 3 9:30 - 9:45

BMoM: Break Monday Morning

Coffee anyone?

Mon, 9 3 9:45 - 11:00

SMoM: Spotlight Monday Morning

Chair: Amos Lapidoth (ETHZ, Switzerland)

To code or not to code: Revisited: Victoria Kostina (California Institute of Technology, USA); Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)
Results on Combinatorial Joint Source-Channel Coding: Yuval Kochman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Arya Mazumdar (University of California, San Diego, USA); Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
On Uncoded Transmission and Blocklength: Yuval Kochman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Gregory Wornell (MIT, USA)
Reduced Complexity Window Decoding Schedules for Coupled LDPC Codes: Najeeb Ul Hassan (Huawei Duesseldorf Technologies GmbH, Germany); Ali E. Pusane (Bogazici University, Turkey); Michael Lentmaier (Lund University, Sweden); Gerhard P. Fettweis (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame, USA)
A Simple Proof of Threshold Saturation for Coupled Vector Recursions: Arvind Yedla (Samsung US R&D Center (San Diego), USA); Yung-Yih Jian (Texas A&M University, USA); Phong S Nguyen (Marvell, USA); Henry D Pfister (Duke University, USA)
Efficient Termination of Spatially-Coupled Codes: Koji Tazoe, Kenta Kasai and Kohichi Sakaniwa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Common Randomness Amplification: A Constructive View: Grégory Demay and Ueli Maurer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Polar Codes for Secure Communications over the Two-Way Wiretap Channel: Alex J Pierrot and Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Scheduling with privacy constraints: Sachin Kadloor (Facebook Inc., USA); Negar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Parv Venkitasubramaniam (Lehigh University, USA)
A New Achievable Region for Gaussian Multiple Descriptions Based on Subset Typicality: Kumar Viswanatha (UCSB, USA); Emrah Akyol (Binghamton University - SUNY, USA); Kenneth Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
On Transmission of Multiple Gaussian Sources over a Gaussian MAC using a VQLC Mapping: Pål Anders Floor (Oslo University Hospital, Norway); Anna N. Kim and Tor A. Ramstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway); Ilangko Balasingham (Norwegian University of Science & Technology & Oslo University Hospital, Norway)
Source Coding with Conditionally Less Noisy Side Information: Roy Timo (Ericsson, Sweden); Tobias J. Oechtering (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Michele A Wigger (Telecom Paris, France)
On the Role of Deterministic Models in K x K x K Wireless Networks: Ilan Shomorony (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA)
Proof of the outage probability conjecture for MISO channels: Emmanuel Abbe (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Shao-Lun Huang (Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, China); Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland)
Source Coding for Dependent Sources: Michael Langberg (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA); Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Mon, 9 3 11:00 - 1:00

PoMoM: Posters Monday Morning

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Monday Morning Session + Lunch

Mon, 9 3 1:00 - 2:30

OMoA: Outreach Monday Afternoon -- Information Theoretic Cryptography

The Arithmetic Codex: Ignacio Cascudo (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain); Ronald Cramer (Leiden University, The Netherlands); Chaoping Xing (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
The Complexity of Information Theoretic Secure Computation: Yuval Ishai (Technion, Israel)
Differential Privacy as a Protocol Constraint: Ilya Mironov (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA)

Mon, 9 3 2:30 - 2:45

BMoA: Break Monday Afternoon

Mon, 9 3 2:45 - 4:00

SMoA: Spotlight Monday Afternoon

Chair: Michelle Effros (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Throughput maximization for an energy harvesting communication system with processing cost: Oner Orhan (Intel Corporation, USA); Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elza Erkip (New York University, USA)
Gaussian Wiretap Channel with a Batteryless Energy Harvesting Transmitter: Omur Ozel (George Washington University, USA); Ersen Ekrem and Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
The Energy Harvesting Multiple Access Channel with Energy Storage Losses: Kaya Tutuncuoglu (Pennsylvania State University, USA); Aylin Yener (The Ohio State University, USA)
On Secure Multiparty Sampling for More than Two Parties: Manoj Prabhakaran (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Characterizing Pseudoentropy: Salil Vadhan (Harvard, USA); Colin Zheng (Harvard University, USA)
Overcoming Weak Expectations: Yevgeniy Dodis (NYU, USA); Yu Yu (Tsinghua University, China)
Achieving the Capacity of any DMC using only Polar Codes: David Sutter and Joseph M. Renes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Frédéric Dupuis (University of Montreal, Canada); Renato Renner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Design of binary polar codes with arbitrary kernel: Vera D. Miloslavskaya (The University of Sydney, Australia); Peter Trifonov (ITMO University, Russia)
A Construction of Lattices from Polar Codes: Yanfei Yan and Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On Common Information and the Encoding of Sources that are Not Successively Refinable: Kumar Viswanatha (UCSB, USA); Emrah Akyol (Binghamton University - SUNY, USA); Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy (Apple, Inc., USA); Kenneth Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
On Feedback, Cribbing, and Causal State-Information on the Multiple-Access Channel: Annina Bracher (Swiss Re, Switzerland); Amos Lapidoth (ETHZ, Switzerland); Yossef Steinberg (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Gaussian Wiretap Channel with an Amplitude Constraint: Omur Ozel (George Washington University, USA); Ersen Ekrem and Sennur Ulukus (University of Maryland, USA)
Short-Message Noisy Network Coding with Partial Source Cooperation: Jinfeng Du (Nokia Bell Labs, USA); Ming Xiao (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
On the Asymptotic Spectrum of the Error Probability of Composite Networks: Arash Behboodi (Qualcomm, NL, The Netherlands); Pablo Piantanida (ILLS - McGill - ETS - CNRS - Université Paris-Saclay, Canada)
Secret-Key Agreement over a Non-Coherent Block-Fading MIMO Wiretap Channel: Mattias Andersson (Ericsson, Sweden); Ashish Khisti (University of Toronto, Canada); Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Mon, 9 3 4:00 - 6:00

PoMoA: Posters Monday Afternoon

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Monday Aternoon Session.

Mon, 9 3 6:15 - 7:30

WMoA: Welcome Reception -- Rolex Learning Center

Tue, 9 4

Tue, 9 4 8:30 - 9:30

PTu: Plenary Tuesday

Chair: Ruediger L Urbanke (EPFL, Switzerland)

Communication Amid Uncertainty: Madhu Sudan (Microsoft Research, USA)

Tue, 9 4 9:30 - 9:45

BTuM: Break Tuesday Morning

Tue, 9 4 9:45 - 11:00

STuM: Spotlight Tuesday Morning

Chair: Alon Orlitsky (University of California, San Diego, USA)

On Witsenhausen's Counterexample: the Asymptotic Vector Case: Chiranjib Choudhuri and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)
On Channels with Action-Dependent States: Behzad Ahmadi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Comments on unknown channels: Kristen Woyach and Kate Harrison (UC Berkeley, USA); Gireeja Ranade (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Anant Sahai (UC Berkeley, USA)
Privacy Amplification Theorem for Bounded Storage Eavesdropper: Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan); Yasutada Oohama (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
On Vector Gaussian Multiterminal Source Coding: Jia Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Jun Chen (McMaster University, Canada)
Worst-Case Source for Distributed Compression with Quadratic Distortion: Ilan Shomorony (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Salman Avestimehr (University of Southern California, USA); Himanshu Asnani (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India & University of Washington, Seattle, USA); Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
MIDO Space-Time Codes from Associative and Nonassociative Cyclic Algebras: Andrew Steele and Susanne Pumplün (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Frederique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Irregular Product Codes: Masoud Alipour (EPFL, Switzerland); Omid Etesami (IPM, Iran); Ghid Maatouk (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland); Amin Shokrollahi (EPFL, Switzerland)
Constructing Good QC-LDPC Codes by Pre-lifting Protographs: David G. M. Mitchell (New Mexico State University, USA); Roxana Smarandache and Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Full- or Half-Duplex? A Capacity Analysis with Bounded Radio Resources: Vaneet Aggarwal (Purdue University, USA); Melissa Duarte (Huawei Technologies France, France); Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice University, USA); Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan (AT&T Laboratories - Research, USA)
Towards integrating Quantize-Map-Forward relaying into LTE: Emre Atsan (EPFL, Switzerland); Raymond Knopp (Institut Eurecom, France); Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Smartphones across networks: cooperative group communication: Lorenzo Keller (EPFL, Switzerland); Anh Le, Blerim Cici and Athina Markopoulou (University of California, Irvine, USA); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA); Hulya Seferoglu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
An Outer Bound for the Memoryless Two-user Interference Channel with General Cooperation: Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois Chicago, USA)
Derandomized Sampling Algorithm for Lattice Decoding: Zheng Wang (Southeast University, China); Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Combining Superposition Coding and Binning Achieves Capacity for the Gaussian Cognitive Interference Channel: Stefano Rini (National Yangming Jiaotong University, Taiwan); Ernest Kurniawan (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore); Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University, USA)

Tue, 9 4 11:00 - 1:00

PoTuM: Posters Tuesday Morning

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Tuesday Morning Session + Lunch

Tue, 9 4 1:00 - 2:30

OTuA: Outreach Tuesday Afternoon - Connections to Biology

Chair: Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

A Cellular Solution to an Information Processing Problem: Garud Iyengar (Columbia University, USA); Madan Rao (National Center for Biological Sciences, USA)
Understanding neural networks by controlling and evoking behavior: Sharad Ramanathan (Harvard, USA)
How cells control their identity: Information theoretical concepts in gene regulatory networks: Erik Nimwegen (Universitaet Basel, Switzerland)

Tue, 9 4 2:30 - 2:45

BTuA: Break Tuesday Afternoon

Tue, 9 4 2:45 - 4:05

STuA: Spotlight Tuesday Afternoon

Chair: Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Lossy Computing of Correlated Sources with Fractional Sampling: Xi Liu (NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Elza Erkip (New York University, USA)
Error Exponents for Block Markov Superposition Encoding with Varying Decoding Latency: Glenn Bradford and J. Nicholas Laneman (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Robust Distributed Compression for Cloud Radio Access Networks: Seok-Hwan Park (Jeonbuk National University, Korea (South)); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Onur Sahin (InterDigital, Inc., USA); Shlomo (Shitz) Shamai (The Technion, Israel)
Multilevel 2-Cell t-Write Codes: Aman Bhatia (Intel Corporation, USA); Aravind R. Iyengar (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., USA); Paul H. Siegel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Bit-fixing Codes for Multi-level Cells: Anxiao Andrew Jiang (Texas A&M University, USA); Yue Li (MemVerge Inc, USA); Jehoshua Bruck (California Institute of Technology, USA)
A DC-Free Multi-Mode Run-Length Limited Coding Scheme: Carl H Heymann (University of Johannesburg & Util Labs (PTY) Ltd, South Africa); Hendrik C Ferreira (University of Johannesburg, South Africa); Jos H. Weber (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Information Theory of DNA Sequencing: General Statistics: David Tse (Stanford University, USA); Guy Bresler (MIT, USA); Ma'ayan Bresler (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
An Efficient Sequential Predictor for Inference of Time-Varying Causal Interactions in Neural Processes: Todd Coleman (UCSD, USA)
Information Theoretic Approach to Classification and Closeness Testing: Jayadev Acharya (Cornell University, USA); Hirakendu Das (University of California San Diego, USA); Ashkan Jafarpour and Alon Orlitsky (University of California, San Diego, USA); Shengjun Pan and Ananda Theertha Suresh (Google, USA)
On the Non-robustness of Essentially Conditional Information Inequalities: Tarik Kaced (The Chinese University of Hong Kong & Institute of Network Coding, Hong Kong); Andrei Romashchenko (LIRMM, CNRS & University Montpellier 2 & The Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS, France)
Compact Representation of Polymatroid Axioms for Random Variables with Conditional Independencies: Satyajit Thakor (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Alex Grant and Terence H. Chan (University of South Australia, Australia)
Characterizing the Entropy Function Region via Extreme Rays: Qi Chen (Xidian University, China); Raymond W. Yeung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Capacity of a Class of Relay Channels with State: Deniz Gündüz (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Inaki Estella (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., France)
Non-binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes for Short Block-lengths: Ben-Yue Chang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Dariush Divsalar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Lara Dolecek (UCLA, USA)
Asynchronous Control for Coupled Markov Decision Systems: Michael J. Neely (University of Southern California, USA)
Sequential Group Testing with Graph Constraints: Amin Karbasi (Yale, USA); Morteza Zadimoghaddam (Massachusett Institute of Technology, USA)

Tue, 9 4 4:05 - 6:00

PoTuA: Posters Tuesday Afternoon

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Tuesday Afternoon Session.

Wed, 9 5

Wed, 9 5 8:30 - 9:30

PWe: Plenary Wednesday

Chair: Emre Telatar (EPFL, Switzerland)

Distances between measures, relative entropy and measure concentration: Katalin Marton (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Wed, 9 5 9:30 - 9:45

BWeM: Break Wednesday Morning

Wed, 9 5 9:45 - 10:45

SWeM: Spotlight Wednesday Morning

Chair: Sergio Verdú (Princeton University, USA)

Construction of irregular histograms by penalized maximum likelihood: a comparative study: Panu Luosto (University of Helsinki, Finland); Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu (The University of Auckland, New Zealand); Petri Kontkanen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Comparison of Dynamic Model Selection with Infinite HMM for Statistical Model Change Detection: Eiichi Sakurai (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan); Kenji Yamanishi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Coherence-Based Probabilistic Recovery Guarantees for Sparsely Corrupted Signals: Annina Bracher (Swiss Re, Switzerland); Graeme Pope and Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
On Random Binning versus Conditional Codebook Methods in Multiple Descriptions Coding: Emrah Akyol (Binghamton University - SUNY, USA); Kumar Viswanatha (UCSB, USA); Kenneth Rose (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Multi-terminal Source Coding: Zero-rate Encoders Cannot Enlarge the Rate Region: Badri N Vellambi (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Characterizing the rate region of the coded side-information problem: Ingmar Land (Infinera, France); Claudio Weidmann (CNRS / ENSEA / University Cergy-Pontoise, France); Badri N Vellambi (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Spatially coupled quantum LDPC codes: Iryna Andriyanova (CY Cergy Paris University & ENSEA, CNRS, France); Denise Maurice and Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA, France)
Iterative Soft-Decision Decoding of Hermitian Codes: Li Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
From Channel Codes to Computation Codes: Francois Simon (Telecom SudParis & Institut Telecom, France)
Networks with in-Block Memory: Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Stability and Capacity through Evacuation Times: Leonidas Georgiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Georgios S. Paschos (Amazon, Luxembourg); Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA); Lavy Libman (Servian, Australia)
Capacity Region of Two Symmetric Nearby Erasure Channels With Channel State Feedback: Chih-Chun Wang (Purdue University, USA)

Wed, 9 5 10:45 - 12:30

PoWeM: Posters Wednesday Morning

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Wednesday Morning Session + Take Away Food

Wed, 9 5 12:45 - 6:00

EWeA: Excursions -- Varying Duration

Thu, 9 6

Thu, 9 6 8:30 - 9:30

PTh: Plenary Thursday

Efficient Polar Coding of Quantum Information: Joseph M. Renes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Frédéric Dupuis (University of Montreal, Canada); Renato Renner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Thu, 9 6 9:30 - 9:45

BThM: Break Thursday Morning

Thu, 9 6 9:45 - 11:00

SThM: Spotlight Thursday Morning

Chair: Ioannis Kontoyiannis (University of Cambridge & Statistical Laboratory, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

Interactive Interference Alignment: Quan Geng (Google AI, USA); Pramod Viswanath (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Low-complexity constructions of secret keys using polar coding: Emmanuel Abbe (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Generalized Cut-Set Bounds for Networks with Collocated Messages: General K Sinks: Amir Salimi (University of Southern California, USA); Tie Liu (Texas A&M University, USA); Shuguang Cui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & CUHKSZ-FNii, China)
Bounds on the Belief Propagation Threshold of Non-Binary LDPC Codes: Leonid Geller and David Burshtein (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Extending Monte Carlo Methods to Factor Graphs with Negative and Complex Factors: Hans-Andrea Loeliger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Mehdi Molkaraie (University of Toronto, Canada)
Suppressing pseudocodewords by penalizing the objective of LP decoding: Xishuo Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA); Stark Draper (University of Toronto, Canada); Benjamin Recht (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
On Multicasting Nested Message Sets Over Combination Networks: Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Vinod M Prabhakaran (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India); Suhas Diggavi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Achieving the Capacity of the N-Relay Gaussian Diamond Network Within logN Bits: Bobbie Chern and Ayfer Özgür (Stanford University, USA)
Optimizing Quantize-Map-and-Forward Relaying for Gaussian Diamond Networks: Ayan Sengupta (Stanford University, USA); I-Hsiang Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)
Derivative of the Relative Entropy over the Poisson and Binomial channel: Camilo Gil Taborda (Universidad de Medellin, Colombia); Fernando Pérez-Cruz (ETH Zurich, Spain & Swiss Data Science Center, Switzerland)
Optimal Reliability over a Class of Binary-Input Channels with Feedback: Mohammad Naghshvar (Qualcomm Inc., USA); Michele A Wigger (Telecom Paris, France); Tara Javidi (UCSD, USA)
On Channel Capacity of Communication Via Antenna Arrays with Receiver Noise Matching: Ralf R. Müller (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany); Bruhtesfa Godana (Ericsson Research, Sweden); Mohammad Ali Sedaghat (Qualcomm, Germany); Johannes Huber (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Expurgation Exponent of Leaked Information in Privacy Amplification for Binary Sources: Shun Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
Interactive Communication for Optimum Rate Secret Key Generation: Himanshu Tyagi (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Secure Channel Simulation: Amin Aminzadeh Gohari (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong); Mohammad Hossein Yassaee (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Reza Aref (Sharif University of Tech., Iran)

Thu, 9 6 11:00 - 1:00

PoThM: Poster Thursday Morning

Poster Presentations associated to the Thursday Monday Morning Session + Lunch

Thu, 9 6 1:00 - 2:30

OThA: Outreach Thursday Afternoon - Machine Learning

Iterative Ranking from Pair-wise Comparisons: Sahand Negahban (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Sewoong Oh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Spectral Clustering of Graphs in the Degree-Corrected Stochastic Block Model: Kamalika Chaudhuri (UCSD, Switzerland)
Component-based Models for High-Dimensional Data: Graphical Models and Structurally Constrained Models: Pradeep Ravikumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Thu, 9 6 2:30 - 2:45

BThA: Break Thursday Afternoon

Thu, 9 6 2:45 - 4:05

SThA: Spotlight Thursday Afternoon

Chair: Pramod Viswanath (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Lattice Coding for Multiple Access Channels with Common Message and Additive Interference: Mohammad Farzad Pourbabaee (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Javad Emadi (Huawei Lund Research Center, Sweden); Arash Gholami Davoodi (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Mohammad Reza Aref (Sharif University of Tech., Iran)
Analysis of lattice codes for the many-to-one interference channel: Maria Estela (USACH, Chile); Laura Luzzi (ETIS - CY Université, ENSEA, CNRS, France); Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Jean-Claude Belfiore (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, France)
Integer Low-Density Lattices based on Construction A: Nicola di Pietro (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Italy); Joseph Jean Boutros (Texas A&M University, USA); Gilles Zémor (Université de Bordeaux, France); Loic Brunel (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France)
Reference Based Genome Compression: Bobbie Chern, Idoia Ochoa and Alexandros Manolakos (Stanford University, USA); Albert No (Yonsei University, Korea (South)); Kartik Venkat and Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University, USA)
A Theoretical Approach to Gene Network Identification: Jean-Camille Birget and Desmond S Lun (Rutgers University, USA); Anthony Wirth (University of Melbourne, Australia); Dawei Hong (Rutgers University, USA)
Molecular Communication Between two Populations of Bacteria: Arash Einolghozati (Georgia Tech, USA); Mohsen Sardari and Faramarz Fekri (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Bayesian inference for discrete time series via tree weighting: Ioannis Kontoyiannis (University of Cambridge & Statistical Laboratory, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Athina Panotopoulou (Dartmouth College, USA); Maria Skoularidou (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Grassmannian Signalling Achieves the Ergodic High SNR Capacity of the Non-Coherent MIMO Relay Channel within an SNR-Independent Gap: Ramy Gohary and Halim Yanikomeroglu (Carleton University, Canada)
Achievable Sum-Rates in Gaussian Multiple-Access Channels with MIMO-AF-Relay and Direct Links: Frederic Knabe, Omar Mohamed and Carolin Huppert (Ulm University, Germany)
Two-Source Extractors for Leaky Sources: Yu Yu (Tsinghua University, China); Xiangxue Li and Haifeng Qian (East China Normal University, China)
Decode-and-Forward for the Gaussian Relay Channel via Standard AWGN Coding and Decoding: Anatoly Khina (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Or Ordentlich (Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Israel); Uri Erez (Tel Aviv University, Israel); Yuval Kochman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); Gregory Wornell (MIT, USA)
LDPC-Based Coded Cooperative Jamming Codes: Alex J Pierrot and Matthieu Bloch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Secret Key Agreement Using Correlated Sources over the Generalized Multiple Access Channel: Somayeh Salimi and Mikael Skoglund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
On Function Computation over a Cascade Network: Milad Sefidgaran (Huawei Paris Research Center, France); Aslan Tchamkerten (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Chernoff Bounds for Analysis of Rate-Compatible Sphere-Packing with Numerous Transmissions: Tsung-Yi Chen (Northwestern University, USA); Dariush Divsalar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA); Richard Wesel (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
The Combinatorial Structure of Linear Deterministic Interference Channels: Suvarup Saha and Randall A Berry (Northwestern University, USA)

Thu, 9 6 4:05 - 6:00

PoThA: Posters Thursday Afternoon

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Thursday Afternoon Session.

Thu, 9 6 7:00 - 10:00

BaThA: Banquet -- Lausanne Palace

Fri, 9 7

Fri, 9 7 8:30 - 9:30

PFr: Plenary Friday

Chair: Christina Fragouli (UCLA, USA)

Hypothesis Testing in High-Dimensional Problems: Adel Javanmard and Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA)

Fri, 9 7 9:30 - 9:45

BFrM: Break Friday Morning

Fri, 9 7 9:45 - 11:00

SFrM: Spotlight Friday Morning

Chair: Nicolas Macris (EPFL, Switzerland)

Approaching Maximum Likelihood decoding of finite length LDPC codes via FAID diversity: David Declercq (ETIS ENSEA/univ. of Cergy-Pontoise/CNRS, France); Erbao Li (National University of Defense Technology, China); Bane Vasic (University of Arizona, USA); Shiva Kumar Planjery (Codelucida, USA)
Finite-length performance of spatially-coupled LDPC codes under TEP decoding: Pablo M. Olmos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain); Fernando Pérez-Cruz (ETH Zurich, Spain & Swiss Data Science Center, Switzerland); Luis Salamanca (University of Seville, Spain); Juan José Murillo-Fuentes (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Locally Repairable Codes for HDFS: Dimitris Papailiopoulos (UW-Madison, USA); Alexandros Dimakis (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
On Locality in Distributed Storage Systems: Ankit Singh Rawat (Google Research, USA); Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas at Austin, USA & The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Superposition Coding for Linear Operator Channels over Finite Fields: Shenghao Yang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)
Network Coding with Computation Alignment: Naveen Goela (Technicolor Research, USA); Changho Suh (KAIST, Korea (South)); Michael Gastpar (EPFL, Switzerland)
On the Hardness of Entropy Minimization and Related Problems: Mladen Kovačević, Ivan Stanojević and Vojin Šenk (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
Information Theoretic Cutting of a Cake: Payam Delgosha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA); Amin Aminzadeh Gohari (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
On the estimation of Entropy for Unknown Support Size: Steffen Schober (Ulm University, Germany); Ahmed Mansour (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Fundamental limits on power consumption for lossless signal reconstruction: Pulkit Grover (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Improved Joint Turbo Decoding and Physical-Layer Network Coding: Maria Cláudia Castro (Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina, Brazil); Bartolomeu F. Uchôa-Filho (Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil); Tiago T. Vinhoza (Instituto de Telecomunicações & University of Porto, Portugal); Mario Noronha-Neto (IF-SC, Brazil); Joao Barros (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
On the Additive Complexity of the Cyclotomic FFT Algorithm: Peter Trifonov (ITMO University, Russia)
On the Entropy of Sums of Bernoulli Random Variables via the Chen-Stein Method: Igal Sason (Technion, Israel)
Sequential Normalized Maximum Likelihood in Log-loss Prediction: Wojciech Kotlowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland); Peter Grünwald (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands)
On Cascade Source Coding with A Side Information "Vending Machine": Behzad Ahmadi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Chiranjib Choudhuri and Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California, USA)

Fri, 9 7 11:00 - 1:00

PoFrM: Posters Friday Morning

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Friday Morning Session + Lunch

Fri, 9 7 1:00 - 2:15

SFrA1: Spotlight Friday Afternoon 1

Chair: Igal Sason (Technion, Israel)

An MDL-based Change-Detection Algorithm with Its Applications to Learning Piecewise Stationary Memoryless Sources: Hiroki Kanazawa (Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kenji Yamanishi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Relative Information Loss in the PCA: Bernhard C. Geiger (Know-Center GmbH, Austria); Gernot Kubin (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
A Robust RFPI-Based 1-Bit Compressive Sensing Reconstruction Algorithm: Amin Movahed (Australian National University, Australia); Ashkan Panahi (North Carolina State University, USA); Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Diversity versus Channel Knowledge at Finite Block-Length: Wei Yang (Qualcomm Technologies, Inc, USA); Giuseppe Durisi (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid & Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute, Spain); Yury Polyanskiy (MIT, USA)
Degrees of Freedom of MISO Broadcast Channel with Perfect Delayed and Imperfect Current CSIT: Sheng Yang (CentraleSupélec, France); Mari Kobayashi (CentraleSupelec, France); David Gesbert (Eurecom Institute, France); Xinping Yi (Southeast University, China)
A refined analysis of the Poisson channel in the high-photon-efficiency regime: Ligong Wang (ETH Zurich & Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland); Gregory Wornell (MIT, USA)
Coded Cooperative Data Exchange for Multiple Unicasts: Shahriar Etemadi Tajbakhsh (University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Parastoo Sadeghi (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Two-Way Communication with Energy Exchange: Petar Popovski (Aalborg University, Denmark); Osvaldo Simeone (King's College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Retargeting LT Codes using XORs at the Relay: Shirish S Karande (TRDDC, India)
An Extension to the Chain Graph Representation of an Achievable Scheme: Stefano Rini (National Yangming Jiaotong University, Taiwan)
Uniform Random Number Generation by Using Sparse Matrix: Jun Muramatsu (NTT Corporation, Japan); Shigeki Miyake (NTT, Japan)
Recurrent AMS One-Sided Channels: Francois Simon (Telecom SudParis & Institut Telecom, France)
Strong Secrecy in Arbitrarily Varying Wiretap Channels: Igor Bjelakovic (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany); Holger Boche (Technical University Munich, Germany); Jochen Sommerfeld (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Equivocations for the Simple Substitution Cipher with Erasure-Prone Ciphertext: Willie K Harrison (Brigham Young University, USA); Steven McLaughlin (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Simultaneously Generating Multiple Keys and Multi-Commodity Flow in Networks: Lifeng Lai (University of California, Davis, USA); Siu-Wai Ho (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Fri, 9 7 2:15 - 4:00

PoFrA1: Poster Friday Afternoon 1

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Friday Afternoon 1 Session + Break

Fri, 9 7 4:00 - 4:55

SFrA2: Spotlight Friday Afternoon 2

Chair: Olivier Lévêque (EPFL, Switzerland)

Analog Network Coding in General SNR Regime: Performance of Network Simplification: Samar Agnihotri (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Sidharth Jaggi (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Minghua Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Golay Meets Hadamard: Golay-Paired Hadamard Matrices for Fast Compressed Sensing: Lu Gan (Brunel University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Kezhi Li (University College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Cong Ling (Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
Compressing multisets using tries: Vincent Gripon (Telecom Bretagne, France); Michael Rabbat (McGill University, Canada); Vitaly Skachek (University of Tartu, Estonia); Warren Gross (McGill University, Canada)
Analysis of Sparse Representations Using Bi-Orthogonal Dictionaries: Mikko Vehkapera (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Yoshiyuki Kabashima (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Saikat Chatterjee (KTH - Royal Institute of Technology & Communication Theory Lab, Sweden); Erik Aurell, Mikael Skoglund and Lars Kildehoj Rasmussen (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Aspect of Security in the Cognitive Relay Assisted Interference Channels: Md. Zahurul Islam Sarkar and Tharmalingam Ratnarajah (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
On The Achievable Rate Region of a New Gaussian Wiretap Channel With Side Information: Hamid Bafghi (Sharif University of Technolog, Iran); Babak Seyfe (Shahed University, Iran); Mahtab Mirmohseni (University of Surrey, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mohammad Reza Aref (Sharif University of Tech., Iran)
Gaussian Wiretap Lattice Codes from Binary Self-dual Codes: Fuchun Lin and Frederique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Limited Feedback for Interference Alignment in the K-user MIMO Interference Channel: Mohsen Rezaee (Paderborn University, Germany & University of Tehran, Iran); Maxime Guillaud (Inria, France)
Uniform and Non-Uniform Delay-Rate Tradeoffs in Partial Ergodic Interference Alignment: Henning Maier and Rudolf Mathar (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Achievable Rate Regions for Compound Multiple Access Channel with Channel State Information: Mostafa Monemizadeh (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran); Ghosheh Abed Hodtani (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
The Analog Formulation of Sparsity implies Infinite Divisibility and rules out Bernoulli-Gaussian Priors: Arash Amini (Sharif University of Technology, Iran); Ulugbek S. Kamilov (Washington University in St. Louis, USA & Google Research, USA); Michael Unser (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Fri, 9 7 4:55 - 6:15

PoFrA2: Posters Friday Afternoon 2

Poster Presentations associated to the Spotlight Friday Afternoon 2 Session.