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The Information Theory and Applications Center is dedicated to the study of information theory fundamentals and their relations to communications, computer- and life-sciences, finance, statistics, and related disciplines. The center supports both original research and educational activities in these areas.

Tuesday, 05.27.08, 12 - 1, 4004/4006 (4th floor Atkinson), Lunchtime informal seminar
The physical layer of WiMedia OFDM UWB
Rabih Chrabieh
The WiMedia Ultra-Wideband system uses OFDM, rather than ultra-narrow impulses, to fill up a vast amount of spectrum, more than 500 MHz, with high data rate transmissions at short distances, and very low power...

Wednesday, 05.28.08, 12 - 1.30pm, 4004/4006 (4th floor Atkinson), Lunchtime informal seminar
Entry wise bounds for eigenvectors of random graphs
Pradipta Mitra, Yale
I will talk about a certain spectral property of random graphs. The goal is to investigate what the first eigenvector of the adjacency matrix of a random graph looks like...

ITA Center Inaugurated 02/08/2006 - ITA's inaugural workshop was attended by 439 participants hailing from 21 countries, 25 companies, and 84 universities, and presenting 183 technical talks. Monday and Tuesday focused on communication, coding, and compression while Thursday and Friday centered around networking, machine learning, statistics, statistics, vision, and bio-informatics. Thursday also included a life-science-tutorial with talks on Systems biology, bioinformatics, and population genetics. Wednesday was inauguration day and comprised a keynote address, panel discussion, open problems, and the center's inauguration ceremony...