Seminars

8/2/07
Some Aspects of Robustness in Channel Coding
Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley

7/26/07
Guessing based on length functions
Rajesh Sundaresan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

7/24/07
Information Transfer in Biological Systems
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University

5/3/07
Interactive Communication
Alon Orlitsky, UC San Diego

2/14/07
Van der Waals Curve and Maxwell Construction for Probabilistic Coding
Cyril Measson, Bell Labs and Stanford University

8/18/05
A universal scheme for learning
Ciamac Moallemi, Stanford University

7/19/05
Predictive game theory
David Wolpert, NASA Ames Research Center

5/27/05
Analyticity of hidden Markov chains
Guangyue Han, University of British Columbia

4/28/05
On the entropy rate of pattern processes
George Gemelos, Stanford University

3/1/05
Discrete denoising for channels with memory
Rui Zhang, Stanford University

12/17/04
Optimization and statistical physics: The interplay, and proofs of the Parisi and Coppersmith-Sorkin conjectures
Chandra Nair, Stanford University

12/14/04
An integrated framework for image sensing and processing
Peyman Milanfar, UC Santa Cruz

10/04/04
Homological representation of a generalized de Moivre martingale
Steve Huntsman

8/05/04, 7/09/04
Systems and security issues for sensor networks
Vinay Deolalikar, HP Labs

6/17/04
Universal minimax discrete denoising under channel uncertainty
George Gemelos, Stanford University

6/11/04
Adaptive sampling for quickselect
Alfredo Viola, University of Uruguay

4/27/04
Tropical algebraic geometry and its applications
Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley

3/30/04
Private analysis of data sets
Benny Pinkas, HP Labs

3/25/04
Promise pipelining: Distributed programming made practical
Mark S. Miller, HP Labs

1/23/04
Overview of research in the Technical Computing Research Group
Jeff Collard, HP Labs

11/25/03
Building a virus-safe computing platform: Don't add security, remove insecurity
Mark S. Miller, HP Labs

11/19/03
Multi-antenna Gaussian broadcast channels
Sriram Vishwanath, University of Texas at Austin

10/9/03
How to search in a small world
Lada Adamic, HP Labs

9/29/03
The SkyNet virus - Why it is unstoppable; How to stop it
Marc Stiegler

9/5/03
Joint denoising and decoding of known/unknown sources
Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, HPL and UCSD

9/4/03
Analysis, synthesis and retargeting of facial expressions
Erika Chuang, Stanford University

8/26/03
Certificateless public-key cryptography
Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway College, University of London

8/21/03
Adiabatic quantum algorithms
Umesh Vazirani, UC, Berkeley

8/12/03
Adaptive caching by refetching
Manfred K. Warmuth, UC, Santa Cruz

8/07/03
Ubiquitous pattern matching and its applications (Biology, Security, Multimedia)
Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University

8/05/03
Simple, scaleable network algorithms
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University

7/15/03
Mining the web: Search engines
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, University of Chile

6/26/03, 6/12/03
The canonical correlations of natural color images and their use for inverse problems (Parts I and II)
Yacov Hel-Or, HP Labs

5/27/03
A quadratic-time, sequential, adaptive algorithm for lossy compression
Dharmendra Modha, IBM Almaden Research Labs

5/20/03
Image inpainting and camouflage: Do not believe what you see
Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota

5/16/03
Capacity limits of wireless channels with multiple antennas: Challenges, insights, and new mathematical methods
Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University

5/8/03
Error Correcting codes for noiseless data compression
Sergio Verdu, Princeton University

4/24/03
Sparse representations and the basis pursuit algorithm
Michael Elad, Stanford University

4/15/03
Competitive auctions
Andrew V. Goldberg, Microsoft Research

3/18/03
On the computational approach to fighting spam
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research

3/11/03
Unified arithmetic for public-key cryptography with hardware implementations
Cetin Koc, Oregon State University

2/21/03
Qualifying multipartite correlations with knot theory
Wim Van Dam, HP Labs and MSRI

2/13/03
Wireless communication and coordination in parallel relay networks
Brett Schein

1/28/03
Image segmentation with hidden Markov model
Johan Lim, Stanford University

1/21/03
Universal Portfolios in the Stock Market
David Julian, Stanford University

12/17/02
Least-squares beamforming in wireless networks
Mitch Trott, HP Labs

12/03/02
Algebraic Geometry of Nash Equilibria
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley

11/08/02
Universal Discrete Denoising for a Known Channel
Tsachy Weissman, HP Labs and Stanford

11/01/02
Reconstruction from Subsequences
Leonard J. Schulman, Caltech

10/21/02
The channel coding theorem and the security of binary randomization
Poorvi Vora, Chief Technology Office, Imaging and Printing Group, HP