Joint Telematics Group/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School 2014 at IIT Madras, Chennai

Joint Telematics Group/IEEE Information Theory Society Summer School 2014
in Signal Processing, Telecommunication, and Networking

Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
16 June (Mon) — 19 June (Thu) 2014

Venue: IC & SR Auditorium, IIT Madras

Web site

http://www.itsoc.org/jtg-school-2014/

Speakers and Topics

Pascal Vontobel (Visiting Scholar, Stanford University)

Statistical Physics Methods in Coding and Information Theory

Sitabhra Sinha (Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India

The Middle Path to Understand Complex Systems: A Mesoscopic Perspective on Network Dynamics

Program information

June 16 - 19, 2014:

09:15am - 09:30am (First day only)	Opening Remarks
09:30am - 10:30am	Lecture by Pascal Vontobel
10:30am - 10:50am	Tea/Coffee break
10:50am - 11:50am	Lecture by Pascal Vontobel
11:50am - 12:00 noon	Short break
12:00 noon - 01:00pm	Discussion/Open Session
01:00pm - 02:00pm	Lunch
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Lecture by Sitabhra Sinha
03:00pm - 03:20pm	Tea/Coffee break
03:20pm - 04:20pm	Lecture by Sitabhra Sinha
04:20pm - 04:30pm	Short break
04:30pm - 05:30pm	Discussion/Open Session

Student Presentations

16 June 2014	12:30pm - 1:00pm	Aseem Sharma	Information Overload and Human Priority Queuing
16 June 2014	5:00pm - 5:30pm	Shashank V	Nested lattice coding for secure compute-and-forward in a bidirectional relay
17 June 2014	12:30pm - 1:00pm	Geethu Joseph	RF Spectrum Cartography under Spatially Correlated Shadowing
17 June 2014	4:45pm-5:15pm	R. Janaki	Is the Brain optimally wired - and if so, how ?
17 June 2014	5:15pm - 5:45pm	Sreelakshmi	Stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis of the Mackey-Glass and Lasota equations
18 June 2014	12:30pm - 1:00pm	Manoj Mishra	The Oblivious Transfer Capacity of the Wiretapped Binary Erasure Channel
18 June 2014	5:00pm - 5:30pm	Eric Chan	Approximating partition function on 2D-grid via generalized belief propagation
19 June 2014	12:30pm - 1:00pm	Amitalok Budkuley	Jamming in Joint Source-Channel Communication Systems

Details of student presentations are available here.

Scope

This summer school was started by the Joint Telematics Group (JTG) to cover contemporary research topics in signal processing, telecommunication, and networking for students and young researchers from all over India.

The Joint Telematics Group (JTG) of various IITs and IISc, Bangalore was formed about seventeen years ago with the intent of imparting technical knowledge in the field of signal processing, telecommunications, and networking to young engineers, scientists, and teachers from all over India. The JTG holds the National Conference on Communication (NCC) annually across various IITs and IISc.

We have previously had five summer schools in May 2009 , May 2010, May 2011, May 2012, and June 2013. The Sixth Summer School is sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Important note: We will not provide any workshop participation certificate to the participants. Only the receipts corresponding to the payments made for the JTG Summer School 2014 shall be provided.

Registration

Registration will be in 2 stages. Registration will be confirmed by email in April. Confirmed participants will have to pay a registration fee of Rs. 1000 (students) or Rs. 2000 (others). The total number of participants will be limited to around 120. If there are more requests, preference will be given to students in Masters or PhD programs.

Confirmations have been sent already. Registration deadline for confirmed participants is now May 9, 2014.