SPRING 2012

Seminars will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Mondays in Room 141 CSL unless otherwise indicated below.

Monday, February 6, 2012, ITA CONFERENCE AT UCSD
Monday, February 13, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Professor Onkar Dabeer, Tata Inst. Of Fundamental Research, Title: What is Popular Amongst Your Friends?
Monday, February 20, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Yashodan Kanoria, Stanford University, Title: Bargaining Dynamics in Exchange Networks
Monday, February 27, 2012, 9:00-10:00 a.m., 1000 MNTL, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Title: From Distributed Search to Matching Markets: The Advantage of Social Network Structure
Monday, February 27, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Professor Donging Guo, Northwestern University, Title: Bidirectional Training and Estimation in Wireless Channels
Monday, March 5, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Dr. Joohwan Kim, University of Illinois, Title: Real-Time Peer-to-Peer Streaming over Random Hamilton Cycles
Monday, March 12, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Dr. Dmitry Malioutov, DRW Holdings, Title: Smooth Isotonic Covariances with Applications to Interest Rate Risk Modeling
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Professor Dan Costello, Jr., Notre Dame University, Title: Coupled Sparse Codes on Graphs: A Convolutional Coding Perspective
*** SPRING BREAK ***
Monday, March 26, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL Professor Vijay Subramanian, Northwestern University, Title: MaxWeight Scheduling: Fluid Limits and Outage Behavior
Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:00-4:00 p.m., B02 CSL, Professor Prabal Dutta, University of Michigan, Title: Trillions of Computers: From Pervasive to Perpetual Computing
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 11:00am-12:00pm, B02 CSL, Dr. Emmanuel Abbe, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Title: Processing Information at the Extremes of Randomness
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Professor Haris Vikalo, University of Texas @ Austin, Title: How to Read Your Genes: Signal Processing for Next-Generation Sequencing and Biosensing
Monday, April 23, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL,
Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 2:00-3:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Professor Saswati Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania, Title: Optimal Malware Attack and Defense in Mobile Wireless Networks
Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., B-02 CSL, Farzad Farnoud (Hassanzadeh), University of Illinois, Title: Rank Modulation Codes for Flash Memories
Monday, May 7, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Dr. Urs Niesen, Alcatel-Lucent, Title: Interference Alignment: From Degrees-of-Freedom to Constant-Gap Capacity Approximations
Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 301 CSL, Professor Augustin Chaintreau, Columbia University, Title: Transactional Privacy: Unknotting the Privacy Tussle with Economics
Thursday, May 17, 2012, 4:00-5:00 p.m., 141 CSL, Dr. Eitan Yaakobi, California Institute of Technology, Title: On the Uncertainty of Information Retrieval in Associative Memories

Volunteers and those with suggestions, please contact Professor Pramod Viswanath (pramodv @ illinois.edu). Interested in giving a talk but need a topic? Contact a Communications Group faculty member. Click here for past seminar listings. If you wish to subscribe to the Communications Seminar mailing list, go to COMM-seminar to subscribe.

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