Welcome to the 2012 Munich Workshop on Bidirectional Communication and Directed Information (MDI 2012)!

On May 6-8, 2012, the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) is organizing the 2012 Munich Workshop on Bidirectional Communication and Directed Information.

Directed information was born at the LNT as a product of Hans Marko's efforts to create a bidirectional communication theory whose aim was to distinguish the direction of information flow for mutually coupled statistical systems. James Massey took up and refined the idea many years later and the topic is becoming increasingly popular for measuring causality and dependence. Application areas are, for example, communication network capacity, econometrics, gambling, gene networks, and computational neuroscience. This workshop brings together leading scientists working on bidirectional communication and directed information theory with the aim of advancing the boundaries of knowledge on the topic.

Speakers

  • Pierre-Olivier Amblard (Gipsa-Lab)
  • Todd Coleman (UCSD)
  • Nicola Elia (Iowa State University)
  • Al Hero (University of Michigan)
  • Young-Han Kim (UCSD)
  • Hans Marko (TUM)
  • Jim Massey (ETH Zurich)
  • Gurgen Khachatryan (American University of Armenia)
  • Olivier Michel (Gipsa-Lab)
  • Sanjoy Mitter (MIT)
  • Haim Permuter (Ben Gurion University)
  • Maxim Raginsky (UIUC)
  • Osvaldo Simeone (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
  • Sekhar Tatikonda (Yale University)
  • Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University)
  • Ramji Venkataramanan (Yale University)

Technical Program

Sunday, May 06
14:00 - 14:45 Reception and opening of the workshop
14:45 - 15:45 Hans Marko (TUM)
15:45 - 16:00 Coffeebreak
16:00 - 16:45 Jim Massey (ETH Zurich)
16:45 - 17:30 Tsachy Weissman (Stanford University
Monday, May 07
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:30 Sanjoy Mitter (MIT)
10:30 - 11:15 Nicola Elia (Iowa State University)
11:15 - 12:00 Sekhar Tatikonda (Yale University)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:15 Ramji Venkataramanan (Yale University)
14:15 - 15:00 Todd P. Coleman (UCSD)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffeebreak
15:30 - 16:15 Young-Han Kim (UCSD)
16:15 - 17:00 Haim Permuter (Ben Gurion University)
Tuesday, May 08
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 Al Hero (Michigan University)
11:00 - 11:45 P.O. Amblard and O.J.J. Michel (GIPSA-lab)
11:45 - 12:30 Maxim Raginsky (UIUC)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45 Gurgen Khachatrian (American University of Armenia)
14:45 - 15:30 Gerhard Kramer (TUM)

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