If you would like to present, please add your name and post the paper below:

On Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 3 PM in 258 Cory we had an informal chat about the following papers.

• Pulkit talked about ”Exchange of Limits: Why Iterative Decoding Works” by Korada and Urbanke
• Anand talked about ”Security for Wiretap Networks via Rank-Metric Codes” by Silva and Kschischang

On Friday, July 25, 2008 at 2PM in 258 Cory, we had the second informal chat about:

• Hari talked about ”New Channel Coding Achievability Bounds” by Polyanskiy, Poor and Verdú
• Kristen talked about ”A Spectrum-Shaping Perspective on Cognitive Radio: Uncoded Primary Transmission Case ” by Zhang and Mitra.

On Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 2PM in 258 Cory :

• Pulkit talked about ”Channel Polarization: A Method for Constructing Capacity-Achieving Codes” by Arikan.

Here are some plots of the mapping matrices from the u's to the x's for blocklengths 4 to 1024 (click to enlarge). The red spaces are 1s and the blue spaces are 0s.

On Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 2PM in 258 Cory :

• Prasad will talk about ”An Identity of Chernoff Bounds with an Interpretation in Statistical Physics and Applications in Information Theory” by Merhav.
• Anand will talk about Counting Bits for Distributed Computation by Ayaso, Shah, and Dahleh.

Following are still unclaimed papers suggested by Prof. Sahai. If you want to present any of these, please put your name besides its listing.

• ”Smooth compression, Gallager bound and Nonlinear sparse-graph codes” by Montanari and Mossel.
• ”Errors-and-Erasures Decoding for Block Codes with Feedback” by Nakiboglu and Zheng.

More suggestions :

• ”Interaction between Truth and Belief as the key to non-extensive statistical physics” by Topsoe (presented at ISIT poster session).