This week, we will continue to discuss Section 2.1-2.2 of the lecture notes of Wu and Polyanski: 
http://people.lids.mit.edu/yp/homepage/papers.html

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.