Speaker:
Kathryn Dover
Institution:
UCI
Time:
Tuesday, October 15, 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
510R
Working Group in Information Theory is a 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.
This week, we will discuss Section 1.4 and 1.5 of the lecture notes of Wu and Polyanski:
http://people.lids.mit.edu/yp/homepage/papers.html