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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>CENTRO DI
RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI<BR><BR>Bimestre su "Probabilita' e
Meccanica Statistica nella Scienza
<BR>dell'Informazione"<BR><BR>
III settimana: 16-20 Giugno<BR><BR><BR>Centro De Giorgi<BR>Collegio
Puteano<BR>Piazza dei Cavalieri, 3<BR>PISA<BR><BR>Sala Conferenze (Aula
2)<BR><BR>Mon. 16:<BR>11-12.30: David Forney (MIT, Cambridge), Introduction to
Modern Coding <BR>Theory - I<BR><BR>14.30-16.30: Giorgio Parisi (Univ. Roma “La
Sapienza”), Progresses in <BR>combinatorial optimization<BR><BR>Tue.
17:<BR>9.30-10.30: Nicolas Sourlas (ENS, Paris), Introduction to the
<BR>Statistical Mechanics of Error-Correction Codes<BR>11-12.30: David Forney
(MIT, Cambridge), Introduction to Modern Coding <BR>Theory - II<BR><BR>14.30-16:
Haggai Kfir (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan), Statistical <BR>Mechanics Aspects
of Joint Source Channel Coding<BR><BR>Wed. 18:<BR>9.30-10.30: Andrea
Montanari (ENS, Paris), Proliferation of pure states <BR>in coding
problems with practical consequences)<BR>11-12: Ruediger Urbanke (EPFL,
Lausanne), Achieving Capacity: the <BR>(complete) story of the binary erasure
channel<BR><BR>14.30-15.30: Chandra Nair, with Balaji Prabhakar, Mayank Sharma
<BR>(Stanford University, Palo Alto), A Proof of the Parisi and
<BR>Coppersmith-Sorkin Conjectures for the Finite Random Assignment
Problem<BR>16-17.30: Nicola Elia (Iowa State University), When Bode Meets
Shannon: <BR>Control-Oriented Feedback Communication Schemes<BR><BR>Thur.
19:<BR>9.30-10.30: Sekhar Tatikonda (Yale, New Haven), Inference and Gibbs
<BR>Measures 11-12: Marc Mezard (Université de Paris Sud, Orsay), The cavity
<BR>method in optimization problems: how message passing can deal with the
<BR>proliferation of metastable states<BR><BR>14.30-15.30: Riccardo Zecchina
(ICTP, Trieste), From Belief Propagation <BR>to Survey Propagation: a
message-passing algorithm for hard <BR>combinatorial
problems<BR><BR><BR><BR>Fri. 20:<BR>9:30-10:30 Martin Wainwright (UC-Berkeley,
Berkeley), Exponential <BR>families, marginal polytopes, and convex relaxations
for approximate <BR>inference<BR>11-12: Pascal Vontobel (UIUC, Urbana), Factor
Graphs and <BR>Static/Dynamical Electrical
Networks<BR><BR>================================================================<BR>CENTRO
DI RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI<BR><BR>Bimestre su "Probabilita' e
Meccanica Statistica nella Scienza
<BR>dell'Informazione"<BR><BR>
IV settimana: 23-28 Giugno<BR><BR><BR>Centro De Giorgi<BR>Collegio
Puteano<BR>Piazza dei Cavalieri, 3<BR>PISA<BR><BR>Sala Conferenze (Aula
2)<BR><BR>Lun. 23:<BR>14.30-16: Andrea Montanari, Statistical mechanics coding
and all that <BR>(Introduction to the last week's topics)<BR><BR>Mar.
24:<BR>9.30-11: Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (Roma “La Sapienza”), Problems, Results
<BR>and Perspectives in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics<BR>11.30-12.30
(Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute), <BR>Large Deviations and
Exclusion Processes<BR><BR>14.30-15.30 (Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan
(Courant Institute), <BR>Large Deviations and Exclusion Processes<BR>16-17.30:
Franceco Guerra (INFN, Roma), A survey of recent rigorous <BR>results in mean
field spin glass<BR><BR>Mer. 25:<BR>9.30-11: Andrea Montanari, Statistical
mechanics coding and all that <BR>(Introduction to the last week's
topics)<BR>11-13 (Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute), Large
<BR>Deviations and Exclusion Processes<BR><BR>14.30-16: Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
(Roma “La Sapienza”), Problems, Results <BR>and Perspectives in Nonequilibrium
Statistical Mechanics<BR><BR>Giov. 26:<BR>9.30-10.30: Fabio Toninelli (Eurandom,
Eindhoven) , To be announced<BR>11-12.30: Francesco Guerra (INFN, Roma), A
survey of recent rigorous <BR>results in mean field spin glass<BR><BR>14.30-16:
Marco Isopi (Bari e Courant Inst.), Random walks with random <BR>rates, singular
diffusions and aging</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>