Probability and Statistical Mechanics in Information Science
3 June 2003 - 20 July 2003Invited Speakers
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
University of California, Berkeley6 July 2003 - 13 July 2003
Course: Scaling limits for Interacting Particle Systems
Nicolas Sourlas
Laboratoire de Physique Theorique de L'Ecole Normale Superieure9 June 2003 - 22 June 2003
Talk: Introduction to the Statistical Mechanics of Error-Correction Codes
Boris Tsirelson
Tel Aviv University6 July 2003 - 12 July 2003
Course: Scaling limits: from unstable random walks to nonclassical Brownian motions.
Ruediger Urbanke
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne15 June 2003 - 20 June 2003
Riccardo Zecchina
International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)17 June 2003 - 21 June 2003
Talk: From Belief Propagation to Survey Propagation: a message-passing algorithm for hard combinatorial problems
Course: Statistical Physics and Combinatorial Optimization
Ofer Zeitouni
University of Minnesota3 June 2003 - 11 June 2003
Talk: Large deviations results for random matrices, concentration, and matrix models