DIMACS Workshop On Theoretical Advances In Information Recording

March 25 - 26, 2004
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, emina@lucent.com

Paul Siegel, University of California - San Diego, psiegel@ucsd.edu

Bane Vasic, University of Arizona, vasic@ece.arizona.edu

Adriaan J. van Wijngaarden, Bell Laboratories, alw@research.bell-labs.com

Workshop Program:

Thursday, March 25, 2004

  8:00 - 9:00  Registration -  4th Floor, CoRE Building
               Breakfast - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

  9:10 - 9:30  Welcome and Greetings:
               Brenda Latka, DIMACS Associate Director
               Bane Vasic, Emina Soljanin, Adriaan van Wijngaarden, 
               Paul Siegel, working group organizers

 9:30 - 10:30  Towards the Optimal Bit Aspect Ratio in Magnetic Recording
               William Ryan, University of Arizona, Tucson

10:30 - 11:00  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

11:00 - 12:00  Iterative Timing Recovery
               John R. Barry, Georgia Tech, Atlanta

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  3:00  An Iterative Decoding Algorithm for Soft Decision Decoding
               of RS Codes and Its Applications
               Krishna Narayanan, Texas A&M University, College Station

 3:00 -  3:30  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 3:30 -  4:15  Constrained Systems with Unconstrained Positions: Graph
               Constructions and Trade-off Functions (part I)
               Panu Chaichanavong, UCSD

 4:15 -  5:00  Constrained Systems with Unconstrained Positions: Graph
               Constructions and Trade-off Functions (part II)
               Lei Poo, Stanford University

 5:00 -  6:30  Wine and Cheese Reception - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building
 
Friday, March 26, 2004

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration - 4th Floor, CoRE Building

 9:00 - 10:00  Coded Modulation for the Deep Space Optical Channel
               Bruce Moision, JPL

10:00 - 10:30  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building
               
10:30 - 11:15  Timing Recovery at low SNR
               Aravind Nayak, Georgia Tech, Atlanta

11:15 - 12:00  Asymptotic Capacity Bounds for Magnetic Recording
               Raman Venkataramani, Seagate Research

12:00 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  3:00  Ghostbusting - Constrained Coding for Optical Communication
               Navin Kashyap, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

 3:00 -  3:30  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 3:30 -  4:15  Belief-Propagation with Information Correction: Near Maximum-Likelihood 
               Decoding of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
               Ned Varnica, Harvard

 4:15 -  4:30  Closing

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