DIMACS Working Group on Theoretical Advances In Information Recording

March 22 - 24, 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:

Monday, March 22, 2004

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

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

 9:30 - 10:30  Macro-Molecular Data Storage with Petabyte/cm3 Density,
               Highly Parallel Read/Write Operations, and Genuine 
               3D Storage Capability
               Masud Mansuripur, University of Arizona, U.S.A.  
               
10:30 - 11:00  Break - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

11:00 - 12:00  How Random is the Human Genome?
               Peter Winkler, Bell Laboratories, and Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

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

 2:00 -  3:00  Can We Explain the Faithful Communication of Genetic Information?
               Gerard Battail, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France

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

 3:30 -  4:30  The Information Processing Mechanism of DNA and Efficient DNA Storage
               Olgica Milenkovic, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.

 4:30 -  6:30  Wine and Cheese Reception - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

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

 9:00 - 10:00  Optimal Block-Decodable Encoders for Constrained Systems
               Brian Marcus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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

10:30 - 11:30  Iterative Timing Recovery
               Aleksandar Kavcic, Harvard University

11:30 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  3:00  Information Rates for Two-Dimensional ISI Channels
               Paul Siegel, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.

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

 3:30 -  4:30  Coding and Signal Processing for Two-Dimensional Optical Storage
               Wim Coene, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
              
 4:30 -  6:30  Wine and Cheese Reception - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

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

 9:00 - 10:00  Capacity and Beyond
               Erozan Kurtas, Seagate Research

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

10:30 - 11:30  A Nanotechnology-Based Approach for Highly-Parallel, Ultra-Dense Data Storage
               Giovanni Cherubini, IBM Research, Zuerich
              
11:30 -  2:00  Lunch - 4th Floor, Lounge, CoRE Building

 2:00 -  3:00  ET Might Write not Radiate
               Chris Rose, Rutgers

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

 3:30 -  4:30  Discussion

 4:30 -  6:30  Closing Reception

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