2019 North American School of Information Theory
2019 North-American School of Information Theory
July 2-5, 2019, Boston, MA
Overview
The 2019 North American School of Information TheoryÌýwill be held Tuesday, July 2 through Friday, July 5, 2019 in the Photonics Center at Boston University. This will be the 12th Annual North American School of Information Theory and follows a series of events designed to provide graduate students with opportunities to:
- Learn from senior lecturers in the field who will present long-format tutorials;
- Participate in a stimulating and inviting forum of scientists;
- Present their own work for feedback and potential collaboration;
- Deepen their connections with the community.
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ScheduleÌý
Lecture 1:Ìý ,Ìý University of Maryland, College Park
Erasure codes for distributed storage and related problems
Lecture 2:Ìý ,Ìý University of California, San Diego
Sequential Acquisition of Information: From Active Hypothesis Testing to Active Learning
Lecture 3:Ìý ,Ìý University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Information, Concentration, and Learning Ìý
Lecture 4:Ìý ,Ìý Padovani Lecturer,Ìý University of California, Berkeley
On duality, encryption, sampling and learning: the power of codes
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Lecture 5:Ìý ,Ìý Boston University
Privacy, Stability, and Generalization
Lecture 6:Ìý , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hands-on Machine Learning Workshop ( )Ìý
Location
The school was hosted in the Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, specifically in the Colloquium Room on the 9th floor. Ìý
On-campus housing is at 10 Buick Street, Boston, which is a 15-minute walk from the Photonics Center.
Organizing Committee
Salim El Rouayheb (Rutgers), Poster Session Co-chair
Arya Mazumdar (UMass Amherst), Poster Session Co-chair
Muriel Médard (MIT), Advisor
Bobak Nazer (BU), General Chair
Flavio du Pin Calmon (Harvard), Publicity Chair
Yury Polyansky (MIT), Technical Demos Chair
Anand Sarwate (Rutgers), Technical Program Chair