2026 Munich Workshop on Shannon Coding Techniques
The 2nd Munich Workshop on Shannon Coding Techniques (MSCT) will be hosted at the Technical University of Munich from April 8 to 10, 2026. Featuring a program of invited talks and contributed poster presentations, the workshop brings together experts in coding for communications.
We look forward to seeing you in Munich!
Topics of interest
Topics include communications theory, short-block-length coding, LDPC and polar codes, coded modulation and shaping, and receiver algorithms. See the call for contributions here.
Location
The workshop takes place on the central TUM campus and in the building of the Institute for Communications Engineering. You can find the lecture hall location here (Google Maps) or here (TUM map).
- Welcome, talks, and registration will be held in the lecture hall Room 1100 (main campus) Location in Google Maps.
- Lunch & coffee breaks, and poster session will be held in room N2408 (2nd floor of building N4). Location in Google Maps.
Where should I go in the morning?
When you arrive in the morning, walk to Arcisstraße 21. From there, signs will guide the way to the lecture hall.
Program
Wednesday, April 8
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Arrival and Registration | |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Frans Willems (Keynote) | The Context-Tree Weighting Algorithm Revisited |
| 09:50 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Rüdiger Urbanke | Beyond the Hashing Bound |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Antonia Wachter-Zeh | CROSS: Codes & Restricted Objects Signature Scheme, A Post-Quantum Signature Scheme in the NIST Competition |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Daniela Tuninetti (Keynote) | Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC): Foundations, Tradeoffs, and Some Results |
| 14:20 - 16:00 | Posters and Coffee | |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Memorial Session for Joachim Hagenauer Panel with Erdal Arıkan, Gottfried Ungerböck, Rüdiger Urbanke, and Frans Willems | |
Thursday, April 9
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Stella Civelli (Keynote) | Signal Design and Processing Toward the Nonlinear Fiber Channel Limits |
| 09:50 - 10:00 | Group Picture | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Tom Richardson | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Peihong Yuan | Soft-Output Decoding of Polar Codes |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Richard D. Wesel | Design and Decoding of Expurgated Tail-Biting Codes Using Lyndon Words |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Balázs Matuz | Channel Coding in Fiber Optics: Why the Best Codes Are Not the Ones We Build |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Posters and Coffee | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Giuseppe Caire | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ido Tal | Constant Weight Polar Codes through Periodic Markov Processes |
| 18:30 | Workshop Dinner | Löwenbräukeller (Location in Google Maps) |
Friday, April 10
| 08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome | |
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Henry Pfister (Keynote) | Neural Polar Decoders: From Finite-State Channels to Deletions and DNA Storage |
| 09:50 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Antonia Tulino | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Laurent Schmalen | Subcode Ensemble Decoding Techniques for Short Block Codes |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Light Lunch Break | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Erdal Arıkan | How Polarization Tames List-Sequential Decoding: A Queueing Heuristic |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Mustafa Cemil Coşkun | Symmetric precoded polar product codes with turbo decoding |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Stephan ten Brink | ORCAS Codes: Generalizing Polar Codes by Concatenating Simplex Codes |
Confirmed Participants
- Alexandru Paler (Aalto University)
- Onurcan Iscan (Apple)
- Erdal Arıkan (Bilkent University)
- Gottfried Ungerböck (Broadcom)
- Mohammadhadi Hadavi (Cambridge University)
- Georg Böcherer (Ciena)
- Stella Civelli (CNR-IEIIT)
- Henry Pfister (Duke University)
- Haotian Fang, Yuqing Ren, Rüdiger Urbanke (EPFL)
- Gabriele Liga, Frans Willems (TU Eindhoven)
- Johannes Huber (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
- Peihong Yuan (Fudan University)
- Alessio Baldelli, Lucía Balsa Picado, Hannes Bartz, Davide Bergamasco, Federico Clazzer, Pedro Hack, Francisco Lazaro Blasco, Luca Menti, Luca Perlini, Alexander Sauter, Riccardo Schiavone, Ayman Zahr (DLR, German Aerospace Center)
- Emna Ben Yacoub, Ronald Boehnke, Jingyun Di, Miguel Gutierrez, Tobias Laas, Shuangxu Li, Boliang Liu, Balázs Matuz, Jose Perdomo, Marvin Xhemrishi, Wen Xu, Chan Zhou (Huawei Technologies)
- Francisco Revson (IQM Quantum Computers)
- Erdem Eray Cil, Alexander Fengler, Diego Figueroa, Haizheng Li, Hedongliang Liu, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Sisi Miao, Frederik Ritter, Laurent Schmalen, Luca Schmid, Andreas Tsouchlos, Leo Wursthorn (KIT)
- Mustafa Cemil Coşkun, Adriaan de Lind van Wijngaarden, Ahmed Elkelesh (Nokia Bell Labs)
- Tom Richardson (Qualcomm)
- Michael Mecking (TH Ingolstadt)
- Giuseppe Caire (TU Berlin)
- Fariba Abbasi, Utku Akin, Houman Asgari, Anisha Banerjee, Jessica Bariffi, Rawad Bitar, Gabriel Cabrera, Paolo Carniello, Francesca Diedolo, Áron Fehér, Yutong Han, Christoph Hofmeister, Sindi Isufi, Alex Jäger, Mustafa Özgün Karağöz, Gerhard Kramer, Diego Lentner, Mahdi Mahvari, Luis Massny, Kumar Nilesh, Tuna Öztürk, Daniel Plabst, Constantin Runge, Kristiyan Savov, Yusuf Sener, Anshul Singhal, Andreas Straßhofer, Dominik Sulz, Sude Topgül, Wolfgang Utschick, Fabio von Daak, Antonia Wachter-Zeh, Frederik Walter, Violetta Weger, Thomas Wiegart, Moritz Wiese, Samuel Wischermann, Kai Yin, Lorenzo Zaniboni (TUM)
- Ido Tal (Technion)
- Robert Fischer, Sebastian Stern (Ulm University)
- Diogo Freitas (Universidade Federal do Pampa)
- Richard D. Wesel (UCLA)
- Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois Chicago)
- Domenico Bove, Antonia Tulino (University of Naples Federico II)
- Paul Bezner, Jannis Clausius, Tim Janz, Felix Krieg, Simon Obermüller, Marvin Rübenacke, Daniel Tandler, Stephan ten Brink, Andreas Zunker (University of Stuttgart)
- Massimo Battaglioni, Mauro M. M. Costantino (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
Poster Presentations
There will be two poster sessions on Wednesday at 14:20 - 16:00, and on Thursday at 14:30 - 16:00. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please send an email to msct2026@ice.cit.tum.de with a preliminary title. The recommended size of the posters is A0, either portrait or landscape. The following researchers will present a poster:
- Fariba Abbasi (TUM): Learned Superposition Precoding for PAPR Reduction and Beyond-Binary LDPC Codes
- Houman Asgari (TUM): Monitoring of Markov Sources: Analytical Characterization of Uncertainty
- Alessio Baldelli (DLR): Quantum XYZ Stabilizer codes
- Lucía Balsa Picado (DLR): Convolutional Codes for the Unequal Message Protection Problem
- Davide Bergamasco (DLR): A Delay-Doppler Approach for Quasi-Synchronous Random Access
- Paolo Carniello (TUM): Simple Model for Multimode Fibers Across Coupling Regimes
- Jannis Clausius (University of Stuttgart): Signal Space-Transformed Expectation Propagation for Symbol Detection in ISI Channels
- Mauro M. M. Costantino (Università Politecnica delle Marche): Adaptive Strategies for Improving Sliding Window Decoding of SC-LDPC Codes
- Francesca Diedolo (TUM): Distribution Matching for non-iid PMFs
- Pedro Hack (DLR): Achieving Thresholds via Standalone Belief Propagation on Surface Codes
- Yutong Han (TUM): Achievable Rates for the Gaussian Gilbert-Elliott Channel
- Christoph Hofmeister (TUM): Random Access Expectation in DNA Storage and Fountain Codes
- Alex Jäger (TUM): Feedforward and Iterative Phase Noise Compensation for Intersymbol Interference Channels
- Tim Janz, Simon Obermüller (University of Stuttgart): Soft-Output from Covered Space Decoding of Product Codes
- Felix Krieg (University of Stuttgart): Long Polar vs. LDPC Codes under Complexity-Constrained Decoding
- Diego Lentner (TUM): Efficient Probabilistic Parity Shaping for Irregular Repeat-Accumulate LDPC Codes
- Lia Liu (KIT): Quantum error correction codes for transversal T gates
- Jonathan Mandelbaum (KIT): Quantum CSS LDPC Codes based on Dyadic Matrices for Belief Propagation-based Decoding
- Mahdi Mahvari (TUM): Level Constrained Signaling for Bandlimited Additive White Gaussian Noise Channels
- Daniel Plabst (TUM): Approximate Message Passing for Short-Haul Fiber
- Frederik Ritter (KIT): Removal of Small Weight Stopping Sets for Asynchronous Unsourced Multiple Access
- Constantin Runge (TUM): Rate-Adaptivity via Probabilistic Shaping for Peak Power-Constrained Transmission
- Alexander Sauter (DLR): Polar and Convolutional Codes for the Unequal Message Protection Problem
- Kristiyan Savov (TUM): Quantized Enumerative Sphere Shaping
- Luca Schmid (KIT): A Tensor Train Framework for Bayesian Inference in High-Dimensional Communication Systems
- Andreas Straßhofer (TUM): Novel Decoders for Staircase Codes and oFEC
- Andreas Tsouchlos (KIT): Soft-Information-Aware Sliding-Window Decoding of QLDPC Codes
- Frederik Walter (TUM): LDPC Codes on the IDS Channel
- Lorenzo Zaniboni (TUM): Radar Parameter Estimation in Near-Field Integrated Sensing and Communication System
- Andreas Zunker (University of Stuttgart): ORCAS Codes: A Flexible Generalization of Polar Codes with Low-Complexity Decoding
Registration
Please register via this form by March 27 to help our planning. The workshop is free of charge.
Accomodations
Hotel Antares offers discounted rates for direct bookings made by email or phone when referencing “Munich Workshop 2026.”
Further Information
Co-Chairs
Alex Jäger, Diego Lentner, Constantin Runge, Andreas Straßhofer, Thomas Wiegart, Gianluigi Liva, Gerhard Kramer
Contact
E-Mail: msct2026@ice.cit.tum.de
