News Archive

Anisha Banerjee will be awarded the Walter Gademann Master’s Thesis Award of the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) for her outstanding Master's thesis. [read more]

Since April 1st, Antonia Wachter-Zeh is an Associate Editor for Coding Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Her appointment is for 3 years. The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory publishes papers concerned with the transmission, processing, and utilization of information.  Link: https://ieeeittrans.ee.technion.ac.il/ [read more]

On February 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Richard D. Wesel from UCLA will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "Dynamic Assignment Blahut-Arimoto: Minimum Cardinality Optimal Signaling Made Easy". [read more]

On February 03, 2021 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Peter Shor from MIT will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "Quantum Money" [read more]

Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 6 The new book Identification and Other Probabilistic Models (Springer Series: Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking) is currently in print. The book by editors A. Ahlswede, I. Althöfer, C. Deppe and U. Tamm will be available in early 2021. This book is the sixth volume of Rudolf Ahlswede's lectures on information theory, which his former assistants and his son have published. It deals with identification theory. In… [read more]

On December 09, 2020 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Yury Polyanskiy from MIT will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "Self-regularizing Property of Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Mixture Models". [read more]

Yonatan Yehezkeally will receive a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This fellowship enables exceptionally highly-qualified scientists and scholars from abroad to conduct research of their choice in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. The fellowship will sponsor Yonatan's long-term research stay at TUM and LNT, hosted by Prof. Wachter-Zeh. [read more]

On December 02, 2020 at 4:00 PM, Dr. Alain Couvreur from Inria will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "On the hardness of the code equivalence problem in rank metric". [read more]

On November 25, 2020 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Salim El Rouayheb from Rutgers University will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication". [read more]

From November 2020 to February 2021, the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering (ICE) is organizing a virtual speaker series with weekly talks from international researchers on a variety of topics in information theory, coding theory, cryptography, and other related fields. The talks take place on Wednesday at 4pm CET. [read more]