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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]

On November 18, 2020 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Eitan Yaakobi from Technion will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "The sequence reconstruction problem and its connection to the DNA storage channel". [read more]

On November 11, 2020 at 4:00 PM, Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami from Carnegie Mellon University will be giving a talk in the ICE Speaker Series about "Arıkan meets Shannon: Polar codes with asymptotically fast convergence to channel capacity". [read more]

Every year, the student council of the TUM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering awards prizes to lecturers who went above and beyond their duty as teachers and excelled at their work. This year, Thomas Wiegart will receive the Teaching Assistant Award at the "Tag der Fakultät" on November 13th for giving the tutorials of our Digital Communications course in the 4th semester. Link: https://www.fs.ei.tum.de/services/dozentenpreis [read more]

The new book Quantum Communication Networks (part of the Springer series: Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking), is currently in press. The book by authors R. Bassoli, H. Boche, C. Deppe, R. Ferrara, F.H.P. Fitzek, G. Janssen, and S. Saeedinaeeni will be available in early 2021. This book provides a tutorial on quantum communication networks. The authors discuss current paradigm shifts in communication networks that are needed to add computing and storage to the… [read more]

On July 14, 2020 at 3:00 PM, Prof. Henry D. Pfister from Duke University will be giving a talk in the https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/95635925554 Meeting ID: 956 3592 5554 Password: 012208 about "Recent Advances in Polar Codes". [read more]

On June 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM, Prof. Giuseppe Durisi from Chalmers University will be giving a talk in the https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/97814817194 Meeting ID: 978 1481 7194 Password: 927048 about "Short-packet communications---fundamentals and practical coding schemes". [read more]

On June 18, 2020 at 11:00 AM, Prof. Alexandre Graell i Amat from Chalmers University of Technology will be giving a talk about "Coding for distributed computing". [read more]

On March 06, 2020 at 10:00 AM, Sayed Hossein Dokhanchi from University of Luxembourg will be giving a talk in the LNT Library N2405 about "Automotive Joint Radar-Communication Systems". [read more]

On March 04, 2020 at 11:00 AM, Prof. Jens Zumbrägel from Universität Passau will be giving a talk in the LNT Library N2405 about "The MacWilliams Equivalence Theorem for Codes over Rings". [read more]