DIMACS 2001-2005 Special Focus on Computational Information Theory and Coding: Working Groups
Interdisciplinary working groups will explore specific research
areas. Each working group will consist of researchers with expertise
in the field and/or in one of the applications areas. We will bring
these working groups together for a first meeting.
There will be informal presentations and lots of time for
discussion and interaction, including or consisting of
a public workshop.
During the public workshop, others in the community
interested in the field will be given an opportunity to learn about
the working group's efforts and the working group will have the
opportunity to learn about the efforts of others that they might not
have known about. Because we want to be inclusive, we will use this
public meeting to identify individuals from the community who might
wish to join the working group or have their students do so, and we
will include them in the second working group meeting, which could
be public or private and could be a working meeting or a large
workshop.
The goals of
the first
get-together at DIMACS will be to formulate problems, share
ideas and approaches, and set an agenda for future interactions.
These interactions will take place via email and such interactions as
take place normally in scientific collaborations. After six to twelve
months, we will bring the working groups back together at DIMACS for
another meeting. We expect that at this second meeting, the
participants will have an opportunity for intensive collaborations and
also that they will make informal presentations to each other about
their progress
or there will be a public workshop.
At the end of the second get-together, we hope that
the working groups will have obtained exciting results, at least of a
preliminary nature, and we will have laid the groundwork for extensive
future collaborations.
The following is the meeting schedule of the groups:
- Working Group Meeting: Computational Complexity, Entropy, and Statistical Physics
- Dates: December 12 - 13, 2001
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Michael Fredman, Janos Komlos and Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University
- Email: fredman@cs.rutgers.edu, komlos@math.rutgers.edu, lebowitz@sakharov.rutgers.edu
- Working Group Meeting: Data Compression in Networks and Applications
- Dates: first meeting March 18 - 20, 2002, second meeting Spring 2003
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Adam Buchsbaum, AT&T Labs - Research; S. Muthukrishnan, AT&T Labs - Research; Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, Case Western University
- Email: alb@research.att.com, muthu@research.att.com, cenk@eecs.cwru.edu
- Working Group Meeting: Optical/Magnetic Recording and Optical Transmission
- Dates: March 22 - 24, 2004
- Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
- Organizers: Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs; Paul Siegel, Univ. of California, Bane Vasic, University of Arizona; Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden, Bell Laboratories
- Email: emina@lucent.com, psiegel@ucsd.edu, vasic@ece.arizona.edu, alw@research.bell-labs.com
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