Information Theory and Some Friendly Neighbors - Ein Wunschkonzert

A Symposium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld
from August 11-15, 2003

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Overview



Monday



Monday, August 11


9.00h-9.30h Harout Aydinian

Extremal Problems under dimension constraints


9.30h-10.00h Vladimir Blinovsky

On correlation inequalities


10.00h-11.00h János Körner:

Combinatorics and information theory


11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break


11.30h-12.00h Faina Solov'eva

Automorphism group of perfect codes


12.00h-12.30h Torleiv Klove

Even-weight codes for error correction


12.30h-14.30h Lunch Break


14.30h-15.30h Andras Sarközy

My Work in Bielefeld


15.30h-16.30h Julien Cassaigne

On Combinatorics of Words


16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break


17.00h-17.30h Christian Mauduit

Construction of Pseudorandom Finite Sequences


17.30h-18.00h Katalin Gyarmati

On a Family of Pseudorandom Binary Sequences


18.00h-18.30h Henk Hollmann

I.P.P. - Codes

Tuesday

Tuesday, August 12




9.00h-10.00h James L. Massey

Information Theory After Shannon


10.00h-11.00h Katalin Marton

Measure Concentration Problems (Blowing-Up)


11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break


11.30h-12.00h Ulrich Tamm


12.00h-14.30h Lunch Break


14.30h-15.30h Peter Sanders

Polynomial Time Algorithms for Network Information Flow


15.30h-16.30h Christian Bey

The Complete Intersection Theorem and Related Results


16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break


17.00h-17.30h Uwe Leck

Extremal Problems in Partially Ordered Sets


17.30h-18.00h A. Jan Van Zanten

On the Construction of Snake-in-the-Box Codes

Wednesday

Wednesday, August 13




9.00h-10.00h Andrew Barron

The Role of Information in the Central Limit Problem


10.00h-11.00h Ning Cai

Isoperimetric, Diametric and Intersection Theorems


11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break


11.30h-12.00h Lloyd Demetrius

Quantum Statistics, entropy and the evolution of life span


12.00h-12.30h Stefan Artmann

Life=Information+Computers? A Philosophical Look at Artificial Life


12.30h-14.30h Lunch Break


14.30h-15.30h Holger Lyre

Is Syntax Without Semantics Possible?


15.30h-16.30h Günter Kochendörfer

Signals, Meaning, and Information in the Brain


16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break


17.00h-18.00h Alon Orlitsky

Communication Complexity and Relatives


19.00h Barbecue

Thursday

Thursday, August 14




9.00h-10.00h D. Werner Müller

Statistics and Information


10.00h-11.00h Frank Hampel

The Foundations of Statistics Revisited, With a Bridge to Information Theory


11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break


11.30h-12.00h Peter Harremoes

A New Approach to Majorization


12.00h-12.30h Evgueni Haroutunian

On Logarithmically Asymptotically Optimal Testing of Hypotheses and Identification


12.30h-14.30h Lunch Break


14.30h-15.30h Anand Srivastav

Construction of sparse connectors


15.30h-16.30h Kingo Kobayashi

Multi User Information Theory


16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break


17.00h-17.30h Ashot Haroutunian

The Rate-Reliability-Distortion Function: Main Properties


17.30h-18.00h Gabor Wiener

Approximate Search

Friday

Friday, August 15




9.00h-10.00h Andreas Winter

Quantum Strong-Converses and Some Consequences


10.00h-11.00h Erdal Arikan

Search in Quantum Systems


11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break


11.30h-12.30h Hiroshi Nagaoka

Some Remarks on the Quantum Information Geometry from

Estimation Theoretical Viewpoints






12.30h-14.30h Lunch Break


14.30h-15.30h Imre Csiszar

On Common Randomeness in Information Theory


15.30h-16.30h Venkat Anantharam

Identification via Channels and Common Randomness


16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break


17.00h-18.00h Yossef Steinberg

On Identification for Watermarking Systems


18.00h-19.00h Rudolf Ahlswede

Schlagerparade

Overview


Montag 11. Dienstag 12. Mittwoch 13. Donnerstag 14. Freitag 15.






9.00h-10.00h Aydinian/Blinovsky Massey Barron D.W. Müller Winter
10.00h-11.00h Körner Marton Cai Hampel Arikan
11.00h-11.30h Coffee Break




11.30h-12.00h Solov'eva Tamm Demetrius Harremoes Nagaoka
12.00h-12.30h Klove   Artmann E. Haroutunian
12.30h-14.30h Lunch Break




14.30h-15.30h Sarközy Sanders Lyre Srivastav Csiszar
15.30h-16.30h Cassaigne Bey Kochendörfer Kobayashi Anantharam
16.30h-17.00h Coffee Break




17.00h-17.30h Mauduit Leck Orlitsky A. Haroutunian Steinberg
17.30h-18.00h Gyarmati Van Zanten
Wiener
18.00h-19.00h Hollmann


Ahlswede