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Sunday June 7<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
8.15-8.45 AM<\/td>Registration <\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.45-8.50 AM<\/td>Opening remarks<\/strong><\/td>Dmitry Trukhachev, General Chair<\/td><\/tr>
8.50-10.50 AM<\/td>Tutorial 1: Casting Error-Correction Decoding as a Convex Optimization Problem, and Building Efficient Solvers<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>S<\/strong>tark Draper, University of Toronto <\/td><\/tr>
10.50-11.20 AM<\/td>Coffee break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11.20 AM-12.20 PM<\/td>S1: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Information Theory<\/td><\/tr>
12.20-1.20 PM<\/td>Lunch Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1.20 PM-3.20 PM<\/td>Tutorial<\/strong> 2<\/strong>: Massive MIMO: From Antenna Array to Information Theory<\/strong><\/mark><\/td>Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa
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3.20-3.50 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.30-5.50 PM<\/td>Tutorial<\/strong> 3: Information-Theoretic Analysis for Generalization of Learning Algorithms<\/strong><\/mark><\/td>Ziqiao Wang, Tongji University <\/td><\/tr>
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6.00-10.00 PM<\/td>Welcome Reception<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>Black Sheep Restaurant (Tentative)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Monday June 8<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
8.15-8.45 AM<\/td>Registration <\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.45-8.50 AM<\/td>Announcements<\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.50-9.50 AM<\/td>Keynote 1: Can We Learn from Learned Error-Correcting Codes?<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>Natasha Devroye, University of Illinois Chicago <\/td><\/tr>
9.50-10.20 AM<\/td>Coffee break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
10.20 AM-12.20 PM<\/td>M1: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Error-Correction Codes <\/td><\/tr>
12.20-1.20 PM<\/td>Lunch Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1.20 PM – 2.20 PM<\/td>Keynote 2: Quantization for LLMs and matrix multiplication<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>Yury Polyanskiy, MIT <\/td><\/tr>
2.20-3.20 PM<\/td>M2: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Optical Communications and Related Topics<\/td><\/tr>
3.20-3.50 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.50-5.50 PM<\/td>M3: Invited and Technical<\/strong> Session<\/strong><\/td>Compressed Sensing and Information Theory<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday June 9<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
8.30-8.45 AM<\/td>Registration <\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.45-8.50 AM<\/td>Announcements<\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.50-9.50 AM<\/td>Keynote 3: Error-<\/strong><\/mark>Correction for Nanopore Readouts: From Contextual Deletions to Substring Permutations<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois Urbana\u2013Champaign<\/td><\/tr>
9.50-10.20 AM<\/td>Coffee break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
10.20 AM-12.30 PM<\/td>T1: Invited and Technical Session <\/strong><\/td>Information Theory and Machine Learning<\/td><\/tr>
12.30-1.30 PM<\/td>Lunch Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1.30-2.30 PM<\/td>Keynote 4: <\/strong><\/mark>Diffusion Models Through the Lens of Information Theory<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>Henry Pfister, Duke University <\/td><\/tr>
2.30-3.30 PM<\/td>Canadian IT Society Meeting<\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
3.30- 3.50 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.50-5.50 PM<\/td>Student Competition<\/strong><\/td>  <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
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6.30-10.00 PM<\/td>Banquet<\/strong><\/td>Marriott Harbourfront  <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday June 10<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
8.30-8.45 AM<\/td>Registration <\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.45-8.50 AM<\/td>Announcements<\/strong><\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
8.50-10.50 AM<\/td>Tutorial 4: Polar Decoders in Silicon: From Algorithms to Architectures<\/mark><\/strong><\/td>Warren Gross, <\/strong>McGill University<\/td><\/tr>
10.50-11.20 AM<\/td>Coffee break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
11.20 AM – 12.40 PM<\/td>W1: Technical Session <\/strong><\/td>Cryptography Molecular Communications and Information Theory<\/td><\/tr>
12.40-1.40 PM<\/td>Lunch Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
1.40 PM – 3.20 PM<\/td>W2: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Wireless Communications<\/td><\/tr>
3.20-3.50 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.50-4.50 PM<\/td>W3: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Distributed Computing <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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