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M |
Aug 25 |
Introduction & Motivation |
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| 2 |
W |
Aug 27 |
Probability Theory |
Gardiner Ch. 2 |
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M |
Sep 1 |
Labor Day - NO CLASS |
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| 3 |
W |
Sep 3 |
Entropy - I |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 2 |
| 4 |
M |
Sep 8 |
Entropy - II |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 2 |
| 5 |
W |
Sep 10 |
Thermodynamics |
Parrondo/Horowitz/Sagawa |
| 6 |
M |
Sep 15 |
Asymptotic Equipartition Theorem |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 3 |
| 7 |
W |
Sep 17 |
Coding & Data Compression |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 5 |
| 8 |
M |
Sep 22 |
Phase Transitions |
Vogel/Saravia/Cortez |
| 9 |
W |
Sep 24 |
Relative Entropy |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 2 |
| 10 |
M |
Sep 29 |
Suboptimal Codes |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 5 |
| 11 |
W |
Oct 1 |
Mutual Information |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 2 |
| 12 |
M |
Oct 6 |
Sufficient Statistics |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 2 |
| 13 |
W |
Oct 8 |
Channels & Channel Coding |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 7 |
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M |
Oct 13 |
Study Break - NO CLASS |
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| 14 |
W |
Oct 15 |
Midterm - NO CLASS (Take-home, 10:00am Oct 15 to 10:00am Oct 16) |
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| 15 |
M |
Oct 20 |
Horse racing & Natural selection |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 6 Rivoire/Leibler |
| 16 |
W |
Oct 22 |
Differential Entropy |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 8, 9 |
| 17 |
M |
Oct 27 |
Biological Signal Transduction |
Bialek |
| 18 |
W |
Oct 29 |
Rate-Distortion Theory |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 10 |
| 19 |
M |
Nov 3 |
MaxEnt |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 12 |
| 20 |
W |
Nov 5 |
Stochastic Processes |
Cover & Thomas Ch. 4 |
| 21 |
M |
Nov 10 |
Random Graph Models |
Fronczak |
| 22 |
W |
Nov 12 |
Advanced topics TBD |
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| 23 |
M |
Nov 17 |
Advanced topics TBD |
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| 24 |
W |
Nov 19 |
Advanced topics TBD |
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| 25 |
M |
Nov 24 |
Advanced topics TBD |
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W |
Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving Break - NO CLASS |
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| 26 |
M |
Dec 1 |
Final Presentations Pt 1 |
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| 27 |
W |
Dec 3 |
Final Presentations Pt 2 |
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| 28 |
M |
Dec 8 |
Presentations Overflow |
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M |
Dec 15 |
Final Exam (4-6pm) |
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