Open problems Chair: Alexander Vardy
	Each problem will be allocated 5 minutes for presentation and 5 for discussion. Please email us proposed problems. Does decode-and-forward achieve capacity when the relay is near the source? Gerhard Kramer Distortion region in common source broadcasting Giuseppe Caire Pointwise Convergence of Densities of Information Projections Peter Harremoes Degrees of Freedom in MIMO Broadcast with Finite Precision CSI Amos Lapidoth and Shlomo Shamai Mobile wireless broadcast channel Rajiv Laroia and Thomas Richardson Girth Doesn't Matter (or does it ?) Robert McEliece Finding the best representation of a code Ralf Koetter Analyzing the performance of the simplex algorithm in connection with ML decoding via linear programming Navin Kashyap Network Multicast: A Mathematical Model Christina Fragouli and Emina Soljanin Size of the Underlying Alphabet Krishnamurthy Viswanathan Network Arithmetic Yunnan Wu