Speaker: 

Roman Vershynin

Institution: 

UCI

Time: 

Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

RH 510M

Working Group in Information Theory is a new self-educational project in the department. Techniques based on information theory have become essential in high-dimensional probability, theoretical computer science and statistical learning theory. On the other hand, information theory is not taught systematically. The goal of this group is to close this gap. We will meet weekly and take turns to present the materital from the lecture notes of Wu and Polyanski: 

http://people.lids.mit.edu/yp/homepage/papers.html

Everyone, including especially graduate students, is welcome to participate!

I will start presenting Section 1.