The following table lists the schedule for 6.975. A limited number of listeners/auditors who have read the relevant papers are welcome to attend sessions of interest.
| Date | Area | Topic | Leader | Papers | Writeup |
| 9/4 | Organizational Meeting | ||||
| 9/11 | Information Geometry | EM and Alternating Minimization Algorithms | Shane Haas | Csiszar, Minka | Summary, Slides |
| 9/18 | Coding Theory | List-Decoding of RS codes | Huan Yao | Guruswami and Sudan | Summary, Slides |
| 9/25 | Information Geometry | Alternating Optimizations | Prof. Ram Zamir | Richardson, Zamir | Abstract, Slides |
| 10/02 | Optimization, Signal Processing | Uncertainty Principle and Sparse Representation of Bases | Todd Coleman | Elad & Bruckstein , Donoho & Huo | Summary, Slides |
| 10/09 | Universal Compression | Grammar-Based Codes | Emin Martinian | Kieffer & Yang , Yang & Kieffer | Summary, Slides |
| 10/16 | Universal Compression, Portfolios | Universal Portfolios with Side Information | Brian Chen | Cover & Ordentlich | Abstract, Slides |
| 10/23 | Information Inequalities | Relationship Between Information Inequalities and Group Theory | Desmond Lun | Chan & Yeung | Summary, Slides |
| 10/30 | Belief Propagation | Tutorial and Generalized BP | Prof. Lizhong Zheng | Kschischang, Yedidia | Slides |
| 11/6 | Belief Propagation | Geometric and Variational Approach | Constantine Caramanis | Wainwright, Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 7 | Summary(ps) Summary(pdf) Slides(ps) Slides(pdf) |
| 11/13 | Universal Compression | Burrows-Wheeler Transform | Prof. Effros | Burrows & Wheeler, Effros et al. | |
| 11/20 | Belief Propagation | Expectation Propagation | Erik Sudderth | Minka UAI01, Heskes UAI02 | Summary, Slides |
| 12/04 | Belief Propagation | Variational Methods | Prof. Mitter | Mitter | |
| 12/11 | Wireless | Iterative Multiuser Detection | Ben Vigoda | Reed et al. , Thesis by Reed | Summary Slides |
Last modified 10/17/2002 by dslun@mit.edu.