Speaker: 

Kevin Bui

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 2:00pm to 2:50pm

Location: 

RH 510R

This week, we will finish our discussion on Section 4.4 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.