[CvGmt News] CENTRO DI RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI

[Giulia Curciarello]

CENTRO DI RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI

Bimestre su  "Probabilita' e Meccanica Statistica nella Scienza 
dell'Informazione"

         III settimana: 16-20 Giugno


Centro De Giorgi
Collegio Puteano
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 3
PISA

Sala Conferenze (Aula 2)

Mon. 16:
11-12.30: David Forney (MIT, Cambridge), Introduction to Modern Coding 
Theory - I

14.30-16.30: Giorgio Parisi (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza"), Progresses in 
combinatorial optimization

Tue. 17:
9.30-10.30: Nicolas Sourlas (ENS, Paris), Introduction to the 
Statistical Mechanics of Error-Correction Codes
11-12.30: David Forney (MIT, Cambridge), Introduction to Modern Coding 
Theory - II

14.30-16: Haggai Kfir (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan), Statistical 
Mechanics Aspects of Joint Source Channel Coding

Wed. 18:
9.30-10.30: Andrea Montanari  (ENS, Paris), Proliferation of pure states 
in coding problems with practical consequences)
11-12: Ruediger Urbanke (EPFL, Lausanne), Achieving Capacity: the 
(complete) story of the binary erasure channel

14.30-15.30: Chandra Nair, with Balaji Prabhakar, Mayank Sharma 
(Stanford University, Palo Alto), A Proof of the Parisi and 
Coppersmith-Sorkin Conjectures for the Finite Random Assignment Problem
16-17.30: Nicola Elia (Iowa State University), When Bode Meets Shannon: 
Control-Oriented Feedback Communication Schemes

Thur. 19:
9.30-10.30: Sekhar Tatikonda (Yale, New Haven), Inference and Gibbs 
Measures 11-12: Marc Mezard (Université de Paris Sud, Orsay), The cavity 
method in optimization problems: how message passing can deal with the 
proliferation of metastable states

14.30-15.30: Riccardo Zecchina (ICTP, Trieste), From Belief Propagation 
to Survey Propagation: a message-passing algorithm for hard 
combinatorial problems



Fri. 20:
9:30-10:30 Martin Wainwright (UC-Berkeley, Berkeley), Exponential 
families, marginal polytopes, and convex relaxations for approximate 
inference
11-12: Pascal Vontobel (UIUC, Urbana), Factor Graphs and 
Static/Dynamical Electrical Networks

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CENTRO DI RICERCA MATEMATICA ENNIO DE GIORGI

Bimestre su  "Probabilita' e Meccanica Statistica nella Scienza 
dell'Informazione"

         IV settimana: 23-28 Giugno


Centro De Giorgi
Collegio Puteano
Piazza dei Cavalieri, 3
PISA

Sala Conferenze (Aula 2)

Lun. 23:
14.30-16: Andrea Montanari, Statistical mechanics coding and all that 
(Introduction to the last week's topics)

Mar. 24:
9.30-11: Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (Roma "La Sapienza"), Problems, Results 
and Perspectives in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
11.30-12.30 (Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute), 
Large Deviations and Exclusion Processes

14.30-15.30 (Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute), 
Large Deviations and Exclusion Processes
16-17.30: Franceco Guerra (INFN, Roma), A survey of recent rigorous 
results in mean field spin glass

Mer. 25:
9.30-11: Andrea Montanari, Statistical mechanics coding and all that 
(Introduction to the last week's topics)
11-13 (Aula Bianchi): Srinivasa Varadhan (Courant Institute), Large 
Deviations and Exclusion Processes

14.30-16: Giovanni Jona-Lasinio (Roma "La Sapienza"), Problems, Results 
and Perspectives in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Giov. 26:
9.30-10.30: Fabio Toninelli (Eurandom, Eindhoven) , To be announced
11-12.30: Francesco Guerra (INFN, Roma), A survey of recent rigorous 
results in mean field spin glass

14.30-16: Marco Isopi (Bari e Courant Inst.), Random walks with random 
rates, singular diffusions and aging
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