Welcome to the seminar archives. To view the list of speakers for a seminar, use the links below. The seminar was sponsored by Cisco prior to Spring 2006, and has been sponsored by Qualcomm Inc since Fall 2006.

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Schedule

Thursday, September 5, 1996 Measuring What Internet Users Value: the INDEX Project

Richard Edell

University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, September 12, 1996 Channels with Memory: Universal Decoding, Compound Channel Capacity, and Lempel-Ziv Parsing

Prof. Amos Lapidoth

MIT

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Thursday, September 19, 1996 The Common Randomness Capacity of a Pair of Noisy Channels

Sivarama Venkatesan

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, January 27, 1997 Progressively Reliable Transport of Interactive Multimedia Over Wireless Channels

Richard Han

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, February 3, 1997 On the Departure Process of a Leaky Bucket System with Long-Range Dependent Input Traffic

Socrates Vamvakos

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, February 10, 1997 A Minimum-Spanning-Arborescence Algorithm, and Related Combinatorial Results

Sivirama Vekatesan

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, February 24, 1997 Some Problems of High-speed Switching

Balaji Prabhakar

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

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Monday, March 3, 1997 Infrared Wireless Communications: Recent Results

Prof. Joseph Kahn

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, March 10, 1997 System Level Support for Wireless Multimedia Access in InfoPad

Tom Truman

University of California, Berkeley

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Friday, March 21, 1997 Redundancy of the Lempel-Ziv Codes

Serap Savari

Bell Laboratories

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Monday, March 31, 1997 A Dynamical Framework for Robust Measurement-Based Admission Control in Integrated-Services Networks

Prof. David Tse

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, April 14, 1997 Quantization in Image Compression: a Statistical View

Bin Yu

University of California, Berkeley

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Monday, April 21, 1997 Tradeoff Between Source and Channel Coding

Prof. Ken Zeger

University of California, San Diego

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Monday, April 28, 1997 Measuring Quality of Service from Buffer Occupancy

Matthew Siler

University of California, Berkeley

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Wednesday, April 30, 1997 Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Time-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Impulse Radio for Wireless Multiple-Access Communications

Moe Win

University of Southern California

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Monday, May 5, 1997 Tag Switching Architecture - Overview

Yakov Rekhter

Cisco Systems

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Tuesday, May 6, 1997 Network Calculus, Time and Space Methods

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

EPFL, Switzerland

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. , Hogan Room

Thursday, September 4, 1997 Optimistic Information Theory

Prof. Mitch Trott

MIT

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Wednesday, September 10, 1997 Topics in Network Economics

Prof. Hal Varian

University of California, Berkeley

Hogan Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 18, 1997 Quality of Service Re-examined

Abhay Parekh

Now! Technology Consulting

Hogan Room ,

Thursday, September 25, 1997 Measurements of End-to-End Internet Dynamics

Vern Paxson

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Thursday, October 2, 1997 Effective Bandwidths in Wireless Networks with Multi-User Receivers

David Tse

University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, October 9, 1997 The Path Integral Approach to Large Transients in Computers and Networks

Neil Gunther

Performance Dynamics Company

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Thursday, October 16, 1997 On Transmission Impairments in Wireless Communication Channels

Suhas Diggavi

Stanford University

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Thursday, October 23, 1997 IP+ATM: If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

Peter Newman

Ipsilon Networks

Hogan Room ,

Thursday, October 30, 1997 Adaptive Multiuser Detection

Prof. Vincent Poor

Princeton University

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Thursday, November 6, 1997 Exploring Applications of Fractal Geometry and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Context of Communications and Networks

Prof. Greg Wornell

MIT

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Thursday, November 13, 1997 Space-Time Coded Modulation for High Data Rate Wireless

Ayman Naguib

AT&T Labs Research

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Thursday, November 20, 1997 On the Role of Channel Distance Properties in Partial Response Signaling

Dr. Emina Soljanin

Bell Labs

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Wednesday, December 3, 1997 Design Challenges of Wide band CDMA for the 3rd Generation Wireless Systems

Ahmad Bahai

Algotel, Inc.

, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 4, 1997 The ATLAS I Single-Chip ATM Switch: Toward Universal Networking with Advanced Flow Control Architectures

Manolis Katevenis

University of Crete, Greece

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Tuesday, December 9, 1997 Recent Progress in Wireless Multiuser Communications: A Personal Perspective

Prof. U. Madhow

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Thursday, January 29, 1998 Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Dr. Ian Blake

Hewlett-Packard Labs

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Thursday, February 5, 1998 Efficient Universal Data Compression

Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Stanford University

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Monday, February 9, 1998 The Post-Internet Landscape of Telecommunications

Robert Lucky

Hogan Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 19, 1998 Topics in Communications: Spreading in Bandwidth over Fading Channels and Tree-Based Redundancy in Mesh Networks

Dr. Muriel Medard

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Thursday, February 26, 1998 Optimal Routing Control: A Game Theoretic Approach

Richard La

University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, March 5, 1998 Tornado Codes

Amin Shokrollahi

University of California, Berkeley

, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 12, 1998 Beyond Traditional Transform Compression: Universality and Multiple Description Coding

Vivek Goyal

University of California, Berkeley

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Tuesday, March 17, 1998 Queuing in a Random Environment

Prof. Nicholas Bambos

Stanford University

, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 19, 1998 Space-Time Coding and Signal Processing for High Data Rate Wireless Communications

Ayman Naguib

AT&T Research Labs

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Thursday, April 2, 1998 Applying Packet Technology to Cellular Radio

Dr. Nick Maxemchuk

AT&T Research Labs

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Friday, April 3, 1998 Pricing Models for Broadband Network Services

Costas Courcoubetis

University of Crete

, 11:00 - noon

Thursday, April 16, 1998 Optimal Sequences, Power Control and Capacity of CDMA systems with Multiuser Linear Receivers

Pramod Viswanath

University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, April 23, 1998 Networking: How Business Drives Technology, Not Vice-Versa, Most of the Time

Daniel Pitt

Bay Networks

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Thursday, April 30, 1998 DSL Over the Same Line as Your Telephone

Prof. Martin Graham

University of California, Berkeley

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Thursday, May 7, 1998 Some New Asymptotics for the Old Problem of Nonlinear Filtering

Prof. Ofer Zeitouni

Technion, Israel

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Thursday, September 3, 1998 Fair End-to-End Congestion Control

Jeonghoon Mo

University of California, Berkeley

299 Cory Hall , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 17, 1998 Delay Cognizant Video Coding: Motivation, Architecture, and Applications

Yuan-Chi Chang

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 22, 1998 Layered Space-Time Codes for Wireless Communications Using Multiple Antennas

Da-Shan Shiu

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, September 29, 1998 Human Brain Mapping with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Victor Solo

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 15, 1998 WebTP: A Receiver-Driven User-Centric Transport Protocol for the Web

Rajarshi Gupta

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 20, 1998 Graphical Models and Variational Approximation

Michael Jordan

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, October 27, 1998 Blind Adaptive Equalization Tidbits

Rick Johnson

Cornell University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 29, 1998 The Wireless Communications Research Department at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Reinaldo Valenzuela, Jerry Foschini, and Constantinos Papadias

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Hughes Room , 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 3, 1998 Differential MMSE: A New Approach for Adaptive Interference Suppression Over Time-Varying Channels

Julia Zhu

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Monday, November 9, 1998 Robust Video Mosaicing through Topology Inference and Local to Global Alignment

Steve Hsu

Vision Technologies Laboratory, Sarnoff Corporation

203 McLaughlin , 11:00-12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 10, 1998 Data Size and Dimension Reduction for Efficient Processing of Images and Video

Boon-Lock Yeo

Microcomputer Research Labs, Intel Corporation

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 17, 1998 Lapped Transforms: Theory and Applications

Dr. Henrik Malvar

Microsoft Corporation

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 24, 1998 A Framework for Adaptive Service Guarantees

Rene Cruz

University of California, San Diego

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, December 1, 1998 Overview of JPEG 2000 Activities

Dr. Alexander Drukarev

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, December 8, 1998 Deconstructing Wireless: A Security and Billing Architecture Based on Voice Recognition and Smart Card

Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 4, 1999 INDEX: Technology and Market Trial

Richard Edell

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, February 11, 1999 Accelerating Web Access via Globally Progressive Interactive Delivery

Jeff Gilbert

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30, p.m.

Thursday, February 18, 1999 Policy-Driven Handoffs Across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Helen J. Wang

University of California,Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 24, 1999 How Fast Can We Compress?

Yiannis Kontoyiannis

Dept. of Statistics, Purdue University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday,March 11, 1999 Packet routing based on geographic addresses for LEO satellite networks

Tom Henderson

University of California, Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 19, 1999 Why eigenvalues of random matrices are hot

Alan Edelman

Dept. of Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley

Wang Room , 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Monday, March 22, 1999 A hybrid Multiplier/CORDIC architecture for Online Handwriting Recognition pre-processing

Richard Reilly

National Univ. of Ireland, Dublin

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 1, 1999 Linear Multiuser Receivers for Multipath Fading Channels

Jamie Evans

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Low Complexity Multiuser Detection for IS--95 Downlink Eavesdropping

Rick Brown

Dept. of EE, Cornell University

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 8, 1999 Paradigms for joint VBR and data services

Paul Haskell

Divicom

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:40 p.m.

Thursday, April 15, 1999 Analysis and Comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas

Richard La

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 19, 1999 Entropy and the Shannon Capacity of Queueing Systems

Balaji Prabhakar

Stanford University

Hogan Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Monday, April 26, 1999 FEC is NOT Overhead!

Chris Heegard

Alantro Communications, Inc.

299 Cory , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 27, 1999 Information Retrieval from Databases: Some Fundamental Limits

Sean Coffey

Dept. of EECS, Univ. of Michigan

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 28, 1999 Queueing networks and differential equations

Yuri Suhov

Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 6, 1999 Effective Bandwidths and Effective Interference for Linear Multiuser Receivers in Asynchronous Channels

Kiran

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Mnday, May 10, 1999 Stability and Optimization of Multiclass Queuing Networks and Their Fluid Models

Sean Meyn

Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hughes Room , 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Monday, August 30, 1999 Greedy Algorithms For the Shortest Common Superstring That Are Asymptotically Optimal

Wojtek Szpankowski

Dept. of CS, Purdue University

1011 Evans Hall , 3:00-4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, September 8, 1999 Stor-Serv: Bringing Quality-of-Service to Distributed Network Storage

John Chuang

School of Information Management and Systems, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, September 17, 1999 Forward-link Multiuser Diversity Through Proportional Fair Scheduling

David Tse

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, September 24, 1999 Modeling and Analysis of Heavy-Tailed Distributions via Classical Teletraffic Methods

David Starobinski

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, October 1, 1999 WebTP: A New Protocol Architecuture for the Web

Wilson So and Rajarshi Gupta

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, October 8, 1999 A Capacity Analysis for the IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol

Y.C. Tay

Dept. of Mathematics, National University of Singapore

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, October 15, 1999 Semidefinite Programming and Applications

Laurent El Ghaoui

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, October 22, 1999 Power Control and Spectral Efficiency of Vector Multiple Access Channels

Pramod Viswanath

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, October 29, 1999 Fundamental Issues in CDMA System Design and Analysis

Venu Veeravalli

Dept of EE, Cornell University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 2, 1999 Strong Approximations for Markovian Service Networks

William Massey

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

380 Soda , 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Friday, November 12, 1999 A Multivalued Representation for View Synthesis

Nelson Chang

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, November 19, 1999 Soft Iterative Error-Correcting Codes for Storage

John Fan

Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 3, 1999 Image Processing Techniques for the analysis of Pigmented Skin Lesions

Philippe Schmid

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Friday, January 28, 2000 Signal and Array Processing for a Wireless Acoustic/Seismic Sensor System

Kung Yao

Dept. of EE, UCLA

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Thursday, Feburary 3, 2000 Rate Allocation in the Internet

Richard H. La

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feburary 10, 2000 ARQ Protocols for the Gaussian Collision Channel

Giuseppe Caire

Institut EURECOM, France

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feburary 24, 2000 Packing Spheres in the Grassmann Manifold:A Geometric Approach to the Non-coherent Multi-Antenna Channel

Lizhong Zheng

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 9, 2000 Programming Network Processor

Akash Deshpande

Deja Technologies, Inc.

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 16, 2000 Channel Capacity for Optical IM/DD Channel with Multiple Subcarriers

Roy You

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 23, 2000 A Variational View of Estimation Theory

Sanjoy K. Mitter

Dept. of EECS, MIT

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 24, 2000 Network Information Flow

Raymond Yeung

Dept. of Information Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 6 Providing End-to-end QoS for Real-Time Applications Over the Internet

Chen-Nee Chua

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 13, 2000 A Block-Iterative Approach to Equalization and Detection in Digital Communication Systems

Greg Wornell

Dept. of EECS, MIT

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 20, 2000 An Analysis on Multicast State Scalability, Distribution, and Other Characteristics

Tina Wong

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, April 21, 2000 Wavelets, Approximation, and Signal Compression

Martin Vetterli

EPFL and UCB

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 27, 2000 Receiver Adaptation for Layered Video Transmission over a Heterogeneous Network under Multicast: A Proxy-based Scheme and Optimal Adaptation

Po-Chin Hu

Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Minnesota

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 4, 2000 Real-Life Lessons on What It Takes to Conceive, Design and Ship a Product

Bernard Fraenkel

Scientific Learning

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 8, 2000 Variable-to-Fixed Length Codes and Plurally Parsable Dictionaries

Serap Savari

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 15, 2000 Video Compression and Streaming Over the Internet

Dan Tan

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30:00-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 21, 2000 Congestion Management of Hop-by-Hop Routed Packet Networks via Equal Cost Multiple Paths

Y.T. Wang

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Hughes Room , 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2000 The State of Interdomain Unicast Routing on the Internet

Aaron Wagner

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Fridayday, Oct. 6, 2000 Overview of Reseach Activities at the Video and Image Processing Group at Berkeley

Prof. Avideh Zakhor

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000 Adaptive Signal Processing for DS-CDMA with Short Spreading Codes

Prof. Michael Honig

Dept. of ECE, NorthWestern University

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2000 Goup Codes for Distributed Source Coding

S. Sandeep Pradhan

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000 Optical-Label Switching and the Next Generation Internet

Ben Yoo

Dept. of ECE, U.C. Davis

Rm 241 Cory , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2000 To Be Announced

Bin Yu

Dept. of Statistics, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 Optimum Signal Processing Algorithms for Broad-band Multi-carrier Communication Systems

Navid Lashkarian

Centillium Communications, Inc.

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001 Broadband Multi-Antenna Wireless Communications

Helmut Boelcskei

Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2001 Binary Intersymbol Interference Channels: Capacity Bounds via Density Evolution for Gallager Codes

Alex Kavcic

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University

Hughes Room , 5:00-6:00p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2001 A Duality Model of TCP Congestion Control

Steven Low

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, CalTech

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 12, 2001 Class and Channel Condition Based Weighted Proportional Fair Scheduler

Richard H. La

Dept. of Performance Analysis, Motorola

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:00p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001 Algorithmic Problems Related to the Internet

Christos Papadimitriou

Dept of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001 TCP Switch: when does circuit switching make sense?

Pablo Molinero-Fernández

Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 1, 2001 Multiple Description Coding: New Techniques, Bounds, and Applications

Vivek Goyal

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 15, 2001 A short tutorial on Network Calculus

Patrick Thiran

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Monday, March 19, 2001 Architectural Considerations in the Design of WDM-Based Optical Networks

Eytan Modiano

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 22, 2001 Quantized Frame Expansions with Erasures

Jelena Kovacevic

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 5, 2001 Multiple-Antenna Differential Modulation: From Fixed-Point-Free Groups to Cauchy Random Matrices

Babak Hassibi

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 12, 2001 Simple, Scalable Network Algorithms

Balaji Prabhakar

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 19, 2001 Understanding Traffic Dynamics at a Backbone POP

Nina Taft

Sprint Advanced Technology Labs

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 26, 2001 (cancelled)

Ion Stoica

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Friday, May 4, 2001 Opportunistic Beamforming using Dumb Antennas

Pramod Viswanath

Flarion Technologies

Hughes Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sep. 5, 2001 Networking Research in the Dept of EECS at U.C. Berkeley

Jean Walrand

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sep. 19, 2001 Overview of Research activities in Video and Image Processing Lab

Avideh Zakhor

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2001 Optimal Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Channels

Lizhong Zheng

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2001 New Analytical Methods for Optimization of Computer Systems and Networks

Alexander I. Gerasimov

Russian Academy of Sciences

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2001 Opportunistic Communication in Wireless Networks

David Tse

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001 Three Short Stories Around Uncoded Transmission

Michael Gastpar

Dept. of Communication Systems, EPFL

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 19, 2001 Worst-case rate of scalar vs. vector quantization

Alon Orlitsky

ECE and CSE Departments, U.C. San Diego

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001 Signal design for MIMO wireless: a unified perspective

Sumeet Sandhu

Information Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 The Geometry of Wireless Networks

Massimo Franceschetti

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2001 FOSSIL (Forest for OVSF-Sequence-Set-Inducing Lineages)

Daniel C. Lee

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001 A New Look at the 'Generalized Distributive Law'

Payam Pakzad

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001 An Internet Indirection Layer

Ion Stoica

Dept. of EECS, U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2001 Towards simpler schedulers for High Aggregate bandwidth input queued switches

Devavrat D. Shah

Computer Science Dept., Stanford University

Hughes Room , 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2002 Wave and Equation Based Rate Control

Vivek Goyal and Michael Luby

Digital Fountain

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002 Bandwidth Scaling for Fading Multipath Channels

Robert Gallager

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT

Hogan Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2002 Fading Channels in the Power Limited Regime

Sergio Verdú

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002 Capacity and Coding for the Multi-Antenna Broadcast Channel

Wei Yu

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 Multiple Description Video Coding & Path Diversity,and Application to Streaming Media Content Delivery Networks

John Apostolopoulos

Hewlett Packard Lab

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2002 A New Class of QoS Routing Strategies

Marco Mellia

Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2002 Search and Replication in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks

Pei Cao

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2002 Capacity and Coding Results for Channels with Side-Information and Feedback

Sekhar Tatikonda

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 5, 2002 Adaptive Channel Partitioning and Modulation for Linear Time-Varying Channels

Ravi Narasimhan

Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.

Hogan Room , 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 Quantum Signal Processing

Yonina Eldar

Digital Signal Processing Group, MIT

Hughes Room , 3-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 24, 2002 Biologically Inspired Binaural Beamforming Algorithms for Hearing Aids

Douglas L. Jones

Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 1, 2002 Adaptive Transmission for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Data Networks

Abbas El Gamal

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 8, 2002 Optical packet switch dimensioning and the Classical Occupancy Problem

Philip Whiting

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technology

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, 2002 Low Delay Audio Coding for Communications Applications

Gerald Schuller

Fraunhofer Group for Electronic Media Technology, Ilmenau, Germany

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sep. 10 Will Information Theory Ever Be Respected by the Optical Fiber Communications Community?

Joseph M. Kahn

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2002 Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation

Martin Vetterli

EPFL and UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 19, 2002 Sampling and Bandwidth Expanding Communications

Irena Maravic

EPFL

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 26, 2002 DYNAMIC SCHEDULING IN CONSTRAINED PROCESSING STRUCTURES: `Geometry' of Packet Scheduling in Communication Switches

Nick Bambos

Stanford University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002 Adaptive TCP Flow Control

Alex Kesselman

School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002 A Unified Framework for Image Modeling and Estimation using Measurement Constraints

Prakash Ishwar

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Wireless Sensor Network Design via Interacting Particles

Aaron Wagner

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002 Graphical models, local probability propagation algorithms, and convex duality

Martin Wainwright

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002 Multiple-Antenna Channels from a Combined Physical and Networking Perspective

Ada Poon

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002 Bandwidth Service Models for Provisioning and Pricing

Bill Massey

Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Hogan Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002 This seminar is CANCELLED

Javier Garcia-Frias

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 CORT: Classification OR Regression Trees

Robert Nowak

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002 Algebraic Geometry of Nash Equilibria

Bernd Sturmfels

Dept. of Mathematics, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002 Context Tree Pruning for Universal Coding with the BWT

Dror Baron

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wang Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002 SHRiNK: A method for efficient network simulation and performance prediction

Balaji Prabhakar

Depts. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002 Distribution-Free Probabilistic Performance Metrics for Multilinear Uncertain Systems

Sheila Ross

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sep. 10 Will Information Theory Ever Be Respected by the Optical Fiber Communications Community?

Joseph M. Kahn

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2002 Sampling Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation

Martin Vetterli

EPFL and UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 19, 2002 Sampling and Bandwidth Expanding Communications

Irena Maravic

EPFL

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sep. 26, 2002 DYNAMIC SCHEDULING IN CONSTRAINED PROCESSING STRUCTURES: `Geometry' of Packet Scheduling in Communication Switches

Nick Bambos

Stanford University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002 Adaptive TCP Flow Control

Alex Kesselman

School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002 A Unified Framework for Image Modeling and Estimation using Measurement Constraints

Prakash Ishwar

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002 Wireless Sensor Network Design via Interacting Particles

Aaron Wagner

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002 Graphical models, local probability propagation algorithms, and convex duality

Martin Wainwright

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002 Multiple-Antenna Channels from a Combined Physical and Networking Perspective

Ada Poon

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002 Bandwidth Service Models for Provisioning and Pricing

Bill Massey

Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Hogan Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002 This seminar is CANCELLED

Javier Garcia-Frias

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 CORT: Classification OR Regression Trees

Robert Nowak

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2002 Algebraic Geometry of Nash Equilibria

Bernd Sturmfels

Dept. of Mathematics, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002 Context Tree Pruning for Universal Coding with the BWT

Dror Baron

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Wang Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002 SHRiNK: A method for efficient network simulation and performance prediction

Balaji Prabhakar

Depts. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002 Distribution-Free Probabilistic Performance Metrics for Multilinear Uncertain Systems

Sheila Ross

Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 8 2003 Verification Codes for Errors and Deletions

Michael Mitzenmacher

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Harvard University

Hughes Room , 2:00-3:00PM

Tuesday, Sept. 16 2003 Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy

Tim Roughgarden

Dept. of Computer Science, Cornell University

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Thursday, Sept. 18 2003 (Special times and room) PDF Optimized Parametric Vector Quantization

Anand Subramaniam

U.C. San Diego, Department of Electrical Engineering

Hughes Room , 3:00-4:00PM

Tuesday, Sept. 23 2003 Estimating Shared Congestion Among Internet Paths

Weidong Cui

U.C. Berkeley Department of Computer Science

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Sept. 30 2003 On Conflict-Free Colorings

Shakhar Smorodinsky

Mathemtical Sciences Research Institute

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Oct. 14 2003 Decentralized Estimation With a Sensor Network

Tom Luo

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Oct. 21 2003 Path Diversity Media Streaming

Thinh Nguyen

U.C. Berkeley

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Oct. 28 2003 New Space-time Block Code Constructions and their Marriage to Multiple Trellis Coded Modulation

Ubli Mitra

University of Southern California

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Nov. 4 2003 When Network Theorists Think Like Leeches

Greg Wornell

MIT

Hogan Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Wednesday, Nov. 12 2003 Capacity of Ultra Wide Band Systems with Spreading Signals

Dana Porrat

U.C. Berkeley

Hughes Room , 4-5:30PM

Tuesday, Nov 18 2003 Beyond wavelets: Directional multiresolution image representation

Minh Do

UIUC

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Nov 25 2003 Interleaving for Network Data Storage

Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang

CalTech

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tuesday, Dec. 2 2003 Scheduling, Routing and Energy Allocation in Satellite and Wireless Networks

Eytan Modiano

MIT

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Friday, Dec. 5 2003 Rate Loss of Network Source Codes and Application

Hanying Feng

Stanford

Hughes Room , 11AM-Noon

Tuesday, Dec. 9 2003 On optimal filtering and entropy rate of a hidden Markov process

Tsachy Weissman

Stanford

Wang Room , 3:30-4:30PM

Tues., Jan. 20 2004 Slepian-Wolf coded quantization for Wyner-Ziv coding and beyond

Zixiang Xiong

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Thur., Jan. 22 2004 Binning Schemes for Steganography: Consummating the Union

Pierre Moulin

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Feb. 4 2004 Multi-Source Cooperative Diversity

Ofir Shalvi

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Thur., Feb. 12 2004 From 2 to infinity: Information theory for large alphabets

Alon Orlitsky

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Feb. 13 2004 BAD: The First Bay Area Day in Communications, Networking, and Signal Processing

306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium) , 9:30AM-4:15PM

Wed., Feb. 18 2004 Efficient Variable Length Channel Coding for Unknown Discrete Memoryless Channels

Stark C. Draper

Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Feb. 25 2004 Cost-Distortion-Optimal Communication Via Measure-Matching: Key Ideas And Application To Neural Communication

Bixio Rimoldi

Communication Systems Dept., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Mar. 1 2004 Channel Shortening for Multicarrier Systems

Conor Heneghan

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Wed., Mar. 10 2004 Learning for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes and Games

Rahul Jain

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Mar. 31 2004 Photons and Packets: A Reliability Comparison

Aaron Wagner

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 7 2004 Secrecy Key Generation and Multiterminal Source Coding

Prakash Narayan

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 14 2004 Flash-OFDM: A New Wireless Technology for Mobile Internet Access

Sundeep Rangan

Flarion Technologies

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Apr. 19 2004 Rate Control in Random Access Networks

Peter Marbach

Computer Science Dept., University of Toronto

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 28 2004 Dept. Colloquium:Wireless networks: From information transfer to sensing and control

P.R. Kumar

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

430 Soda (Wozniak Lounge) , 1:40-3:00PM

Wed., May. 5 2004 Low Complexity, High Performance Algorithms for Decoding and Estimation*

Payam Pakzad

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Thu., Sept. 2 2004 Mean-Field Interaction Models for On-Off TCP Flows

Francois Baccelli

INRIA and Ecole Normale Superieure

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 10:10-11:00AM

Mon., Sept. 13 2004 Efficiency Loss in Market Mechanisms for Network Resource Allocation

Ramesh Johari

Dept. of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Oct. 4 2004 On the Lifetime of a Variable-Rate Ad Hoc Network

Riku Jäntti

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Vaasa

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Oct. 11 2004 Beyond Search: Taxonomies for Organizing Unstructured Information

Joy A. Thomas

Stratify, Inc.

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Oct. 15 2004 Opportunistic Coding for Wireless Channels

Suhas N. Diggavi

School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Mon., Oct. 18 2004 Linear Time Universal Coding of Tree Models

Marcelo Weinberger

HP Labs

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Oct. 22 2004 Information Flow Decomposition for Network Coding

Christina Fragouli

EPFL

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Mon., Oct. 25 2004 Benefits of Limited Feedback for Wireless Channels

Michael L. Honig

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Nov. 1 2004 Hidden-Action in Multi-Hop Routing

John Chuang

School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Nov. 5 2004 Opportunistic Orthogonal Writing on Dirty Paper

Pramod Viswanath

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Mon., Nov. 8 2004 Internet Routing Dynamics and Their Implications

Chen-Nee Chuah

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Nov. 12 2004 Iterative Receivers with Sub-Optimal Components: Cooking "a la Bretonne" using Cheap Ingredients

Jossy Sayir

Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications (FTW)

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 11:10AM-12:00

Mon., Nov. 15 2004 WiFi Pricing as a Dynamic Game*

John Musacchio

EECS Dept.,UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Nov. 19 2004 Network Utility Maximization: Advances and Applications

Mung Chiang

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Nov. 22 2004 Communication Models and Theory for Relay Channels with Transmit and Receive Constraints

Gerhard Kramer

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Nov. 29 2004 Efficient Market Mechanisms for Network Resource Allocation

Rahul Jain

EECS Dept., UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Dec. 6 2004 Optimal Resource Allocation in Stochastic Wireless Networks

Edmund Yeh

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Dec. 10 2004 Recent Results in Non-Asymptotic Shannon Theory

Dror Baron

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Wed., Jan. 26 2005 Multiscale Geometric Image Analysis, Representation, and Processing

Richard Baraniuk

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Feb. 2 2005 Hierarchies of Linear Programming Relaxations for Decoding of Graphical Codes

Martin Wainwright

Depts. of EECS and Statistics, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Feb 7 2005 Transmission Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Jeff Andrews

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 10:10-11:00AM

Wed., Feb. 9 2005 Energy-Efficient Rate Scheduling in Wireless Links Using Geometric Algorithms

Yashar Ganjali

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Feb. 14 2005 Network Coding for the Non-Multicast Case

Ralf Koetter

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Feb. 16 2005 Analysis of Iterative Decoding Algorithms for Finite-Length Codes

Pascal O. Vontobel

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Feb. 18 2005 Feedback Communication over an Unknown Channel

Aslan Tchamkerten

Information Theory Lab, EPFL

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Mar. 4 2005 Fast, Near-Optimal Quantizer Design

Michelle Effros

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Caltech

405 Soda , 11:10-Noon

Wed., Mar. 9 2005 MINESTRONE: Mobile Infrastructure Enablers for Streaming Optimization & New Services

Danjue Li

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Mar. 16 2005 Patterns and their Entropy

Alon Orlitsky

Depts. of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Mar. 30 2005 Feedback Capacity for Linear Gaussian Noise Channels with Noiseless Feedback

Shaohua Yang

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 6 2005 Area theorems for iterative coding systems

Andrea Montanari

MSRI

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 20 2005 Estimation with Markovian Dynamics and Sparseness*

Allie Fletcher

EECS Dept., UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 20 2005 Fitting and Simulation of Models for Telecommunication Access Networks

Volker Schmidt

Faculty of Mathematics and Economics, University of Ulm

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 4:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 27 2005 Quality of Service in Ad-Hoc Networks*

Rajarshi Gupta

EECS Dept., UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Aug. 12 2005 Discovering transcripts, splicing patterns and gene functions using generative models of microarray data

Brendan Frey

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM

Mon., Oct. 10 2005 Managing Open Spectrum Systems

Heather Zheng

Department of Computer Science, UC Santa Barbara

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Tue., Oct. 11 2005 The Value of Adaptability

Constantine Caramanis

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Fri., Oct. 14 2005 Scaling laws for random ad hoc wireless networks

Olivier Lévêque

Information Theory Lab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 3:00 - 4:00 PM

Mon., Oct. 17 2005 On Zero-error Coding of Correlated Sources

Ertem Tuncel

Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Riverside

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Oct. 24 2005 Gaussian Feedback Capacity

Young-Han Kim

Information Systems Lab, Stanford University

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Oct. 31 2005 Opportunistic Decoding: Maximizing rate and reliability in channels with feedback

Stark Draper

Department of EECS, UC Berkeley

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Wed., Nov. 2 2005 Edge-cut Bounds on Network Coding Rates

Gerhard Kramer

Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 5:00 - 6:00 PM

Thurs., Nov. 3 2005 Dare to be Dumb: Low-Power Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks

Douglas L. Jones

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Nov. 7 2005 UWB Communicatons and RFID

Farid Dowla

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Nov. 14 2005 On Universal Types

Gadiel Seroussi

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Nov. 28 2005 A Retrospective on Wavelets with a View to Applications in Nuclear Medicine

Carl Taswell

UC San Francisco Nuclear Medicine

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Fri., Dec. 2 Quality Side Information, Compression, and Belief Propagation

Emin Martinian

Mitsubishi Electronics Research Labs

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Mon., Dec. 5 2005 Communication theory for time-varying channels

Thomas Strohmer

Department of Mathematics, UC Davis

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Mon., Dec. 12 2005 Why delay and block length are not the same thing

Anant Sahai

Department of EECS, UC Berkeley

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Fri., Jan. 20 2006 Coding Bounds for Geometric Attacks on Watermarking Systems

Pierre Moulin

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Jan. 23 2006 Applications of codes for defective memory in steganography

Jessica Fridrich

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY Binghamton

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Feb. 3 2006 Extremal Inequalities and Gaussian Multiterminal Information Theory

Pramod Viswanath

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Fed., Feb. 15 2006 Principles of Estimation and Statistical Learning

Maya Gupta

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Feb. 22 2006 Source Coding with Limited Side Information Lookahead at the Decoder

Tsachy Weissman

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Mar. 8 2006 On Sum Rates of Joint Multiple Cell-Site Processing

Shlomo Shamai

Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Mar. 15 2006 Thoughts on Approximate Dynamic Programming

Benjamin Van Roy

Dept. of Management Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., Apr. 5 2006 Heterogeneous congestion control protocols

Steven Low

Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Caltech

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Apr. 7 2006 Asymptotic stability of rate control schemes in the presence of communication delays

Richard La

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Wed., Apr. 12 2006 The Role of Mixing in Message Passing Algorithms

Sekhar Tatikonda

Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Apr. 14 2006 The Region of Achievable Rates for Multiterminal Source Coding

Sergio D. Servetto

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Wed., Apr. 19 2006 Predictive Power Control for Wireless Networks: Joint User-Centric and Network-Centric Optimization

Siamak Sorooshyari

Lucent Technologies

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Apr. 24 2006 Capacity-Achieving List Decodable Codes for Worst-Case Errors (Joint talk with Theory Seminar)

Venkatesan Guruswami

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall , 4:10-5:00PM

Wed., Apr. 26 2006 Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of MIMO fading channels: LaST codes, ARQ Codes and Hybrid Digital Analog codes

Giuseppe Caire

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., May 3 2006 Implementing CDMA Reverse Link Interference Cancellation

John Smee

Qualcomm Inc.

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., May 8 2006 Flow Control in Wireless Networks

Minghua Chen

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., May 10 2006 Mechanism Design via Machine Learning

Jason Hartline

Microsoft Research

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., May 31 2006 On Coded and Uncoded Transmissions of Gaussian Sources over Gaussian Channels

Amos Lapidoth

Department of Electrical Engineering, ETH-Zurich

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., June 26 2006 Secure Communication Over Multiple Access Channels

Yingbin Liang

Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Aug. 28 2006 Routing on Flat Labels

Matthew Caesar

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Wed., Sept. 13 2006 Connectivity and Capacity of Multi-Channel Wireless Networks with Channel Switching Constraints

Vartika Bhandari

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Sept. 25 2006 Transmission Dynamics and Power Efficiency of Multi-Stage Cooperative Broadcast in Wireless Networks

Birsen Sirkeci-Mergen

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Oct. 16 2006 Finite-SNR Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff for MIMO Fading Channels

Ravi Narasimhan

Department of Electrical Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Oct. 23 2006 Topics in Universal Prediction and Adaptive Filtering

Andrew Singer

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Oct. 30 2006 Efficient algorithms for Three Problems in Networks

Devavrat Shah

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Nov. 6 2006 Balancing forward and feedback error correction

Anant Sahai

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Nov. 13 2006 The Capacity of Interference Channels with Partial Transmitter Cooperation

Ivana Maric

Wireless Systems Lab
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Nov. 20 2006 An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices for Space-Time Coding

Pascal Vontobel

Information Theory Research Group
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Nov. 27 2006 The Mathematical Parallels Between Packet Switching and Information Transmission

Tony T. Lee

Information Engineering Department
Chinese University of Hong Kong

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Tue., Nov. 28 2006 On the role of information in auctions and mechanism design

Bruce Hajek

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Dec. 1 2006 WiBro - A Mobile WiMAX System, and Radio Resource Management

Byeong-Gi Lee

School of Electrical Engineering
Seoul National University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Mon., Dec. 4 2006 Probabilistic transforms for the analysis of binning schemes

Olgica Milenkovic

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Colorado, Boulder

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Dec. 11 2006 On optimization and security in network coding

Tracey Ho

Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
California Institute of Technology

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Jan. 22 2007 Hierarchical Cooperation Achieves Optimal Capacity Scaling in Ad Hoc Networks

David Tse

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Feb. 5 2007 Cooperative Networking - From Logarithms to Algorithms

Mehul Motani

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Feb. 16 2007 Optimal Sampling and Reconstruction in Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) Systems

Yoram Bresler

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Tues., Feb. 20 2007 RF-DNA: Making RFIDs Physically Unique and Viral Economies for Digital Content

Darko Kirovski

Microsoft Research

HP Auditorium (Soda 306) , 1:10-2:00PM

Fri., Feb. 23 2007 New Results and Open Problems for Deletion Channels and Related Synchronization Problems

Michael Mitzenmacher

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

521 Cory , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Feb. 26 2007 Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Control of Wireless Networks

Edmund Yeh

Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics
Yale University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., March 2 2007 Run-Length Coding of Biased Data and the Tunstall Source Coding Algorithm

Sharon Aviran

Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UCSD

521 Cory , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Mar. 5 2007 Ultra-wideband Communications - the next generation

Stephan ten Brink

Wionics Research -- Realtek Group, Realtek Semiconductors, Irvine, CA

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Mar. 12 2007 Random multi-access algorithms in networks with partial interaction: A mean field analysis

Charles Bordenave

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Dept. of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Apr. 2 2007 Scheduling in 3G Wireless Networks: A Security Viewpoint

Sridhar Machiraju

Sprint Applied Research & Advanced Technology Labs

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Apr. 9 2007 TCP-Aware Resource Allocation in CDMA Networks

Ashwin Sridharan

Sprint Applied Research & Advanced Technology Labs

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Apr. 20 2007 Information-efficient writing

David JC MacKay

Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Gatsby Senior Research Fellow
Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory,
University of Cambridge

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Apr. 23 2007 Functional Hierarchy: Representation and Modeling of Spatial Patterns of Brain Activation

Polina Golland

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Apr. 27 2007 Turbo Synchronization: an iterative solution to 'Code-Aided' parameter estimation

Cédric Herzet

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 3:10-4:00PM

Mon., Apr. 30 2007 A New Look at Quadratic Gaussian Network Compression

Aaron Wagner

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Apr. 30 2007 Parametric Video Coding

David Bull

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
University of Bristol,UK

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Wed., May 9 2007 On the Compression of Encrypted Sources Using Distributed Source Codes*

Daniel Schonberg

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

400 Cory Hall (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Mon., May 14 2007 Rethinking the Minimum Distance: Channels With Varying Sampling Rate and Low Bit Error Rate Performance of LDPC codes*

Lara Dolecek

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Wed., May 16 2007 Spectrum sharing and sensing: System design perspective

Danijela Cabric

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Wireless Research Center (2108 Allston Way #200) , 4:10-5:00PM

Mon., Aug 27, 2007 Signal Detection in Sensor Networks

Pramod K Varshney

Department of Electrical and Computer Science
L.C. Smith College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 4:10-5:00 PM

Wed., Aug 29, 2007 Performance of LDPC Codes Under Noisy Message-Passing Decoding

Lav R Varshney

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
MIT

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00 PM

Fri., Aug 31, 2007 Sparse Sampling and Exact Reconstruction of Signal Innovations: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Pier Luigi Dragotti

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College, London

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 11:10-12:00 noon

Fri., Aug 31, 2007 On Cognitive Interference Networks

Michele Wigger

Signal and Information Processing Laboratory (ISI)
ETH Zurich

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Fri., Sep 14, 2007 Content Distribution on the Internet: Peer-to-Peer vs. Client-Server

Srinivas Shakkottai

Depts. of Electrical Eng. and Management Sci. & Eng.
Stanford University

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Sep 17, 2007 Redundant Expansions, Oversampling, and Quantization

Zoran Cvetkovic

Director of the Centre for Digital Signal Processing Research
Division of Engineering, King's College London

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 4:10-5:00PM

Fri., Sep 21, 2007 Coverage and Connectivity Problems in Sensor Networks

Arunabha Sen

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Arizona State University

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Oct 5, 2007 Turbo-Counters: Efficient network traffic measurement using a sparse graph counter architecture

Balaji Prabhakar

Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stanford University

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Oct 12, 2007 Bandwidth Partitioning in Decentralized Wireless Networks

Nihar Jindal

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Oct 19, 2007 Anonymous Networking amidst Eavesdroppers

Parvathinathan Venkitasubramaniam

Adaptive Communications and Signal Processing Group (ACSP)
Cornell University

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Oct 26, 2007 Improving capacity scaling of ad-hoc networks using opportunistic routing and higher carrier frequency

Sae-Young Chung

Wireless Communication Lab
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, Korea

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Nov 2, 2007 Dynamic Interference Management in an Ad-Hoc Deployment

Rajarshi Gupta

Qualcomm Inc.

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Thur., Nov 8, 2007 Cognitive radio research and vision - Nokia Research Center perspective on future radio systems

Nikko Kiukkonen

Research Team Leader on Cognitive Radios
Nokia Research Center

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Thur., Nov 8, 2007 Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radios

Visa Koivunen

Visiting fellow
Nokia Research Center

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:00-3:00PM

Fri., Nov 16, 2007 2D Constrained Channels

Erik Ordentlich

Information Theory, HP Labs

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Mon., Nov 19, 2007 The Poisson Fading Channel

Prakash Narayan

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Tue., Nov 20, 2007 Routing and transport challenges in multi-hop wireless networks

Konstantinos Psounis

Department of Electrical Engineering and (jointly) Computer Science
University of Southern California

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00PM

Fri., Nov 23, 2007

Thanksgiving, No NCD Seminar

Department TBA

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Nov 30, 2007 Estimation of Mixture Subspace Models -- Its Algebra, Statistics, and Compressed Sensing

Allen Y. Yang

Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Thur., Dec 6, 2007 Streaming Source Coding With Delay*

Cheng Chang

Wireless Foundations
UC Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Dec 7, 2007 Message Passing and Linear Programming

Sujay Sanghavi

Stochastic Systems Group, LIDS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00PM

Fri., Jan. 25, 2008 Geometry-based distributed coding of multi-view images with sparse approximations

Ivana Tosic

LTS4 Lab, EPFL

531 Cory (Wang room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Mon., Feb. 4, 2008 Utility Maximization in Peer-to-peer Systems

Minghua Chen

Department of Information Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

400 Cory , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Feb. 6, 2008 Network neutrality, usage-based pricing and service differentiation

George Kesidis

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

400 Cory , 2:10-3:00 PM

Fri., Feb. 8, 2008 The finite harmonic oscillator with applications to radar and communication

Ronny Hadani

Department of Mathematics
University of Chicago

380 Soda , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Feb 11, 2008 L_1 Minimization and the Geometric Separation Problem

Gitta Kutyniok

Department of Statistics
Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Tue., Feb 19, 2008 Cooperative Wireless Networking: From Theory to Practice

Elza Erkip

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Polytechnic University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:10-2:00 PM

Mon., Feb 25, 2008 Wireless ad-hoc networks: from probability to physics via information theory

Massimo Franceschetti

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
UCSD

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Feb 27, 2008 Coding vs. Queueing over Multi-hop Networks

Sanjay Shakkottai

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00 PM

Fri., Feb 29, 2008 Cognitive Wireless Networking in the TV Bands

Ranveer Chandra

Microsoft Research

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Mar 3, 2008 Data-Adaptive Steering Kernel Regression for Image and Video Processing

Peyman Milanfar

Department of Electrical Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Tue., Mar 4, 2008 Efficient Implementation of Linear Programming Decoding

Mohammad Hossein Taghavi

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC San Diego

293 Cory , 1:10-2:00 PM

Wed., Mar 12, 2008 Classifying Given LTI Noise

Maya Gupta

Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Mar 17, 2008 Large alphabet distribution estimation: practice and theory

Narayana Prasad Santhanam

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Apr 2, 2008 The posterior matching principle for optimal communication with feedback

Ofer Shayevitz

Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems
Tel-Aviv university

380 Soda , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Apr 7, 2008 Neural Architectures for Sparse Approximation

Chris Rozell

Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Apr 9, 2008 Modulo-Lattice Modulation: A Semi-Analog Approach to Communications

Yuval Kochman

Tel-Aviv University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Thur., Apr 10, 2008 Network Externalities and the Deployment of Security Features and Protocols in the Internet

Marc Lelarge

Departement d'Informatique, INRIA, France

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Fri., Apr 11, 2008 End-to-End QoS Guarantee: A Theory and its Application

Zvi Rosberg

CSIRO ICT Centre

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Apr 14, 2008 Feedback Capacity of Blackwell's Channel via Dynamic Programming

Haim Permuter

Information Systems Laboratory
Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Apr 21, 2008 Relay Strategies for Wireless Networks

Ron Dabora

Wireless Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford university

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Apr 23, 2008 Rethinking Internet Traffic Management: From Multiple Decompositions to a Practical Protocol

Martin Suchara

Department of Computer Science
Princeton University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Mon., Apr 28, 2008 Robust Secret Communication over Deterministic Interference Channels

Roy Yates

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Apr 30, 2008 Dynamical models of neural coding based on natural image statistics

Bruno Olshausen

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, School of Optometry,
and Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Fri., May 9, 2008 Cryptanalysis of a McEliece type cryptosystem

Lorenz Minder

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Tues., May 13, 2008 Approximate characterization of the Gaussian multiple description rate-distortion region

Suhas Diggavi

Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems, EPFL

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 4:10-5:00 PM

Wed., May 14, 2008 Resource dimensioning through buffer sampling

Michel Mandjes

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica and University of Amsterdam
Netherlands

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 4:10-5:00 PM

Thur., May 15, 2008 Beyond the ABCs of AVCs : robust and adaptive strategies for future communication systems*

Anand Sarwate

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 1:10-2:00 PM

Mon., May 19, 2008 Information flow over wireless networks: a deterministic approach*

Amir Salman Avestimehr

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., May 28, 2008 Percolation Theory and Large-Scale Wireless Networks: Critical Density, Transmission Delay, and Network Resilience

Edmund Yeh

Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, and Statistics
Yale University

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:10-3:00 PM

Wed., Aug 6, 2008 The Geometric View of a Few Information Theory Problems

Lizhong Zheng

LIDS,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences
MIT

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 3:10-4:00 PM

Fri., Sept 5, 2008 Interference Management in Wireless Networks: Physical Layer Communication Strategies and MAC Layer Interactions*

Lenny Grokop

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Mon., Sept 8, 2008 Coding and message-passing for large scale distributed storage and inference*

Alex Dimakis

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California at Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Tue., Sept 16, 2008 Alice and Bob Get Physical: Insights into Physical Layer Security

Wade Trappe

WINLAB
Rutgers University

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Fri., Sept 19, 2008 Back-of-the-Envelope Computation of Throughput Distributions in CSMA Wireless Networks

Soung Liew

Department of Information Engineering
Chinese University at Hong KonG

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Mon., Sept 29, 2008 User Interference Channel with Source and Destination Node Cooperation

Pramod Viswanath

Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 3:00 -4:00 PM

Fri., Oct 3, 2008 Polarization codes and the rate of channel polarization

Emre Telatar

Information Theory Laboratory
EPFL

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Wed., Oct 8, 2008 Multiscale Time-Frequency Inference for Forensic Speech and Audio Analysis

Patrick J. Wolfe

Department of Electrical Engineering
Harvard University

531 Cory (Wang room) , 11:00 -12:00 noon

Mon., Oct 20, 2008 Gossiping in groups

Anna Scaglione

Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Davis

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 3:00 -4:00 PM

Fri., Oct 24, 2008 Opportunistic Spectrum Access via Dynamic Resource Allocation

Mingyan Liu

Department of EECS
University of Michigan

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Fri., Oct 31, 2008 Efficient Distributed Optimization of Team Detection Networks

Patrick Kreidl

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
MIT

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Fri., Nov 7, 2008 Information theoretic generation of secret keys

Amin Aminzadeh Gohari

EECS
UC Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Thu., Nov 13, 2008 Aloha, that works (or a network adiabatic theorem)

Devavrat Shah

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Laboratory of information and decision systems (LIDS)

400 Cory (Hughes room) , 5:00 -6:00 PM

Fri., Nov 21, 2008 Fading Interference Channels: Sum-capacity and Separability

Lalitha Sankar

Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Fri., Nov 28, 2008

No Seminar today

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Fri., Dec 5, 2008 Counter Braids: A novel counter architecture for network measurement

Yi Lu

Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

521 Cory (Hogan room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Wed., Jan 28, 2009 Mobile Image Matching

Bernd Girod

Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Computer Science
Stanford University

531 Cory (Wang room) , 3:00 -4:00 PM

Mon., Feb 2, 2009 Robust Single-View Geometry and Motion Reconstruction

Bart Adams

Geometric Computing Group
Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Feb 9, 2009 No talk today

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. , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Feb 16, 2009 No Talk today (academic holiday)

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. , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Feb 23, 2009 Scalable data fusion for distributed inference in random networks

Lang Tong

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Mar 2, 2009 Real-time estimation of urban travel time by matching vehicle magnetic signatures

Pravin Varaiya

EECS
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Mar 9, 2009 No Talk Today

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Mon., Mar 16, 2009 Source and Channel Coding for Secure Communications

Ashish Khisti

Deutsche Telekom Labs, CA

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Mar 23, 2009 No talk this week

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. , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Mar 30, 2009 Degree-of-freedom gain from using polarimetric antenna elements

Ada Poon

Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Apr 6, 2009 Restless Bandit and Cognitive Radio

Qing Zhao

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Davis

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Fri., Apr 10, 2009 Connectivity and Facility Location Problems in Emerging Networks

Arun Sen

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Arizona State University

380 Soda , 2:00 - 3:00 PM

Mon., Apr 13, 2009 Interference-Aware Power Control for Cognitive Radio Networks

Siamak Sorooshyari

Lucent Technologies - Bell Labs

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Apr 20, 2009 Dependence Balance Based Outer Bounds for Gaussian Networks with Cooperation and Feedback

Sennur Ulukus

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland at College Park

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., Apr 27, 2009 Cooperation with Untrusted Relays

Aylin Yener

Department of Electrical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Wed., Apr 29, 2009 Toward a new approach to distributed information processing: Harnessing group structure

Sandeep Pradhan

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Wozniak Lounge (430 Soda) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., May 4, 2009 On Optimal Fix-free Codes

Serap Savari

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Mon., May 11, 2009 No Talk Today

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Wed., May 13, 2009 Theory, Simulation and Reality in Digital Data Transmission with Time Modulation

Martin Graham

EECS
UC Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Fri., May 15, 2009 Spectrum sharing by cognitive radios: opportunities and challenges*

Rahul Tandra

EECS
UC Berkeley

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Mon., May 18, 2009 Exploiting Interference through Structured Codes*

Bobak Nazer

EECS
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Tues., May 19, 2009 Costs, Cues, and Confidential Communication*

Krishnan Eswaran

EECS
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 1:00 -2:00 PM

Thurs., May 21,2009 Problems in distributed control design

Cedric Langbort

Aerospace Engineering & Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 4:00 -5:00 PM

Thurs., May 28,2009 Antz

Vivek Borkar

School of Technology and Computer Science
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

400 Cory , 2:30 -3:30 PM

Tues., June 9, 2009 Nonconvex Power Control in Multiuser Communication Systems

Chee Wei Tan

Computer Science
Caltech

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Fri., June 19, 2009 Peer-to-Peer Streaming Capacity under Node Degree Bound

Minghua Chen

Department of Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Tues., June 23, 2009 It's Easier to Approximate

David Tse

EECS
UC Berkeley

400 Cory (Hughes Room) , 2:00 -3:00 PM

Mon., July 13, 2009 Crowdsourcing and All-Pay Auctions

Milan Vojnovic

Microsoft Research

521 Cory (Hogan Room) , 2:30 -3:30 PM

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