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

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