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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>
3.20-3.40 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.40-6.00 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-12.15 PM<\/td>T1: Invited and Technical Session <\/strong><\/td>Information Theory and Machine Learning<\/td><\/tr>
12.15-1.30 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>
3.20-3.40 PM<\/td>Break<\/strong><\/td> <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
3.40-4.20 PM<\/td>W3: Technical Session<\/strong><\/td>Hashing and Distributed Computing<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Technical and Invited Sessions (Papers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday June 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S1: Information Theory<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Yongyi Mao<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 10:20 AM “Capacity of a class of fully-observed multistate Poisson-type signal transduction channel” D. T. Chen (Brown U, USA), A. Eckford (York U, Canada) & P. J. Thomas (Case Western Reserve U, USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 10:40 AM “f-mutual information based Fano-type inequalities for arbitrary loss functions”, Z. Dong, Z. Liu & Y. Mao (U Ottawa, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 11:00 AM “Goal-directed mutual information”, J. Bosulu & J. Gold (U Penn, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Monday June 8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    M1: Error-Correction Codes<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Chair: Frank Kschischang <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • 10:20 AM “Capacity-approaching variable-length constrained sequence codes,” I. Fair (U Alberta, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 10:40 AM “Expansion-preserving gradient code,” Jiang & Wang (UBC, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 11:00 AM “Joint source-channel coding with side information under a mutual information criterion,” C.-A. Cheng & J.-J. Weng (National Chung Cheng U, Taiwan)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 11:20 AM “Genetic algorithm search for error-reducing quasi-cyclic LDPC codes,” J. Zhu & F. Kschischang (U Toronto, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 11:40 AM “Thermodynamic analysis of message-passing decoders,” K. G. Abeywardena & S. Draper (U Toronto, Canada) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • 12:00 PM “Mixed-integer ADMM decoding for LDPC codes,” A. Ho & S. Draper (U Toronto, Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      M2: Optical Communications and Related Topics <\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Chair: Isaac Woungang <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • 2:20 PM “Hardware implementation of ORDEPT decoder,” X. Huang, R. Hadavian, D. Truhachev & K. El-Sankary (Dalhousie U, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 2:40 PM “The dual horizon: optical computing-communication integrated network,” H. T. Dao (RMIT University, Vietnam) & I. Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan U, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • 3:00 PM “ORDEPT decoding with likelihood thresholding,” R. Hadavian & D. Truhachev (Dalhousie U, Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        M3: Compressed Sensing and Information Theory<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Chair: Lele Wang <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • 3:40 PM “Information-theoretic limits on exact subgraph alignment,” C. H. M. Shiu, H. V. Cheng (Aarhus U, Denmark) & L. Wang (UBC, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 4:00 PM “Sensing codebook design for structured sparse recovery problems,” N. Ghaddar, L. Wang (UBC, Canada), W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 4:20 PM (invited)<\/em> “Universal priors: solving empirical Bayes via Bayesian inference and pretraining” Y. Han (New York U, USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 4:45 PM (invited)<\/em> Title TBD H. V. Cheng (Aarhus U, Denmark)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 5:10 PM (invited)<\/em> TBC J. Kang (Berkeley U, USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 5:35 PM (invited)<\/em> TBC X. Xu (Rochester U, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

          Tuesday June 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          T1: Information Theory and Machine Learning <\/mark><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Chair: Sadaf Salehkalaibar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          • 10:20 AM “Coded acknowledgement with random subspaces,” N. Kwan (U Toronto, Canada) , R. Song (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) & W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 10.40 AM “On the optimality and hardness of supervised learning under average risk,” Z. Liu, Z. Dong & Y. Mao (U Ottawa, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 11:00 AM (invited)<\/em> “On the Fundamental Limits of Generative Communication” J. Chen (McMaster U, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 11:25 AM (invited)<\/em> Title TBD, W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • 11:50 AM (invited)<\/em> Title TBD, S. S. Bidokhti (U Penn, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Wednesday June 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n

            W1: Cryptography, Molecular Communications, and Information Theory<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            Chair: Alexander Wietfeld<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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            • 11:20 AM “Enhancing private search engine with optimal adaptive clustering and DP configuration,” G. Zheng (Xidian U, China), G. Gong (U Waterloo, Canada) & H. Li (Xidian U, China)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • 11:40 AM “Improving secure processing via RSA-integrated DNA-based hybrid cryptography,” A. Gulliver (U Victoria, Canada), K. Guenda (U Victoria, Canada) & S. Benatmane (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • 12:00 PM “Asynchronous NOMA for diffusion-based molecular communication networks,” A. Wietfeld & W. Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • 12.40 PM “A unique information metric for nonlinear systems,” K. P. Nelson (Photrek, Inc. & Raytheon Company, USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              W2: Wireless Communications<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Chair: Wei Yu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              • 1:40 PM “How many simultaneous beamformers are needed for ISAC?, K. M. Attiah & W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • 2:00 PM “Experimental evaluation of multi-hydrophone diversity combining for turbo-coded OFDM,” B. B, Nges & J.-F. Bousquet (Dalhousie U, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • 2:20 PM “Nonlinear SIM for wireless systems”, O. Abbas, A. Zayat, L. Markley & A. Chaaban (UBC, Canada)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • 2:40 PM “Delay-augmented SIM-assisted systems,” O. Abbas, H. Alwazani, L. Markley & A. Chaaban (UBC, Canada) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
              • 3:00 PM “Improving long-range mobile underwater communication in Arctic waters with FH-FSK,” J. Gaulin & J.-F. Bousquet (Dalhousie U, Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                W3: Hashing and Distributed Computing <\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Chair: Chen Feng<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                • 3:40 PM “Space upper bounds for \u03b1-perfect hashing,” R. Song & E. Telatar (\u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                • 4:00 PM “Asynchronous coded distributed computing,” M. Ahmed, Y. Deng & A. Yassine (Lakehead U, Canada)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                  Instructions for Presenters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                  All regular presentations (based on accepted papers) are 20 minutes long, including questions. Invited presentations are 25 minutes long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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