Abstract: Shannon's entropy power inequality characterizes the minimum differential entropy achievable by the sum of two independent random variables with fixed differential entropies.
Abstract: Szemeredi's Regularity lemma is key result in extremal graph theory, that roughly states the following: For any $\epsilon>0$, the vertex set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ can be partitioned into $k=C(\epsilon)$ (i.e.
Abstract: Technological advances in sequencing, mapping, and analyzing genomes is proceeding at an extremely rapid pace, and the resulting explosion of genomics data is becoming difficult to manage.
Abstract: Polar codes have attracted much attention since their introduction by Arikan in 2009 as they are the first type of codes to provably achieve channel capacity.
About the Speaker: Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, the author of 1200-page book. A New Kind of Science and the creator of Wolfram|Alpha.
Abstract: Lost sales inventory models with large lead times, which arise in many practical settings, are notoriously difficult to optimize due to the curse of dimensionality.
