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Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications 2017 (MWCA2017)

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Date: Monday, July 3, 2017
Location: Seminar room N2408 (2nd floor), TUM Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT), Theresienstrasse 90, Munich

The TUM Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT) is organizing the 2017 Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications on July 3. The workshop consists of invited talks in the area of coding theory and its applications, e.g., for distributed data storage and network coding, and a poster session.

Organization
Antonia Wachter-Zeh (Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor) Institute for Communications Engineering, TUM
Vladimir Sidorenko, Institute for Communications Engineering, TUM

Topics of interest

  • Coding theory
  • Coding for storage
  • Coding for memories
  • Network coding

Confirmed Invited Speakers

  • Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Ilya Dumer (University of California Riverside, USA)
  • Salim El Rouayheb (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Tuvi Etzion (Technion, Israel)
  • Grigory Kabatiansky (IITP Moscow, Russia)
  • Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois, USA)
  • Joachim Rosenthal (Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Itzhak Tamo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  • Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)

Confirmed Participants

  • Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA)
  • Ilya Dumer (University of California Riverside, USA)
  • Tuvi Etzion, Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel)
  • Netanel Raviv (Ben-Gurion University & Technion, Israel)
  • Alexey Frolov, Grigory Kabatiansky, Stanislav Kruglik (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & IITP RAS, Russia)
  • Olgica Milenkovic, Hoang Dau (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Joachim Rosenthal (Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Julia Lieb (University of Würzburg)
  • Itzhak Tamo (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
  • Rana Ali Amjad, Georg Böcherer, Delcho Donev, Bernhard Geiger, Onur Günlü, Joachim Hagenauer, Lukas Holzbaur, Gerhard Kramer, Andreas Lenz, Ha Nguyen, Marcin Pikus, Patrick Schulte, Vladimir Sidorenko, Amir Hossein Rezaei Tabar, Diego Vargas Romero, Antonia Wachter-Zeh (TUM)
  • Martin Bossert, Sven Müelich, Sven Puchinger, Michael Schelling (Ulm University)
  • Daniel Augot, Julien Lavauzelle (École polytechnique and INRIA Saclay, France)
  • Christoph Günther, Gianluigi Liva, Francisco Lázaro, Balazs Matuz, Sandro Scalise, Thomas Jerkovits, Mustafa Cemil Coskun(DLR)
  • Ryan Gabrys (Spawar Systems Center, USA and UIUC, USA)
  • Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
  • Jaco Versfeld (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  • Stephan ten Brink, Sebastian Cammerer, Mostafa Ebada, Ahmed Elkelesh (University of Stuttgart)
  • Salim El Rouayheb, Rawad Bitar, Serge Kas Hanna (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Helmut Grießer (ADVA Optical Networking)
  • Ana Cristina De Aragao Koestenberger (FAU Erlangen)
  • Francisco M. de Assis (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil)
  • Sarah Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia)
  • Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam (University of Sydney, Australia)
  • Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Texas A&M University, USA)
  • Birenjith Sasidharan (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)
  • Daniel Costello (University of Notre Dame, USA)
  • Mehdi Dabirnia, Sina Rezaei Aghdam (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
  • Christian Franck, Ulrich Sorger (University of Luxembourg)
  • Wai Ho Mow (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Amin Aminzadeh Gohari (Sharif University, Iran)
  • Elena Egorova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia)

Registration
Registration is free, but if you intend to come, please send a mail to mwca2017(at)lnt.ei.tum.de.
The deadline for registrations is June 1st.

Poster presentations
There will be a poster session in the afternoon. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please send an email to mwca2017(at)lnt.ei.tum.de with a preliminary title.  The deadline for poster registrations is June 1st.

(Formatting requirements: DIN A0, portrait)

The following posters will be presented:

  • Francisco M. de Assis (Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil): "List Decoding for Algebraic Geometric Codes based on F.K. Schmidt Curves"
  • Rawad Bitar (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA): "Staircase Codes for Secure Distributed Computing"
  • Elena Egorova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia): "On Lower Bounds for Binary t-Identifiable Parent-Property-Sets codes"
  • Christian Franck, Ulrich Sorger, (University of Luxembourg) "Mapping Combinational Circuits to Homogenous Trellis-Constrained Codes"
  • Stanislav Kruglik, Alexey Frolov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology & IITP RAS): "On One Generalization of Locally Recoverable Codes with Availability"
  • Ryan Gabrys (Spawar Systems Center, USA and UIUC, USA): "Reconciling Similar Sets of Data"
  • Onur Günlü (TUM): "Lightweight Code-based Quantizer and Transform Design for Security and Privacy"
  • Anoosheh Heidarzadeh (Texas A&M University, USA): "Towards a Proof of the GM-MDS Conjecture"
  • Thomas Jerkovits (DLR): "Improving the iterative decoding threshold for tail-biting spatially coupled LDPC codes"
  • Serge Kas Hanna (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA): "Correcting Localized Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes"
  • Julien Lavauzelle (École polytechnique and INRIA Saclay): "Private Information Retrieval Protocols with Codes based on Transversal Designs"
  • Andreas Lenz (TUM): "On Codes Correcting Tandem and Palindromic Duplication Errors"
  • Julia Lieb (University of Würzburg) "Probability Estimates for Linear Systems and Convolutional Codes"
  • Alireza Sheikh, Alexandre Graell i Amat, Gianluigi Liva (DLR): "Probabilistically-Shaped Coded Modulation with Hard Decision Decoding for Coherent Optical Systems"
  • Wai Ho Mow (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology): "Non-Binary Index Assignment for Scalar Quantizers"
  • Sven Müelich, Michael Schelling (Ulm University): "Generalized Plotkin Construction with Application to Physical Unclonable Functions"
  • Sven Puchinger (Ulm University): "Twisted Reed-Solomon and Gabidulin Codes"
  • Netanel Raviv (Ben-Gurion University & Technion, Israel): "Coded Gradient Computation from Cyclic MDS Codes and Expander Graphs"
  • Moustafa Ebada, Ahmed Elkelesh, Sebastian Cammerer and Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart, Germany): "Scattered EXIT Charts for Short Length Codes"

Program

09:00 Welcome

Session 1 (Chair: Antonia Wachter-Zeh)

09:15–09:45 Invited Talk: Alexander Barg (University of Maryland, USA):
"Construction of MDS Array Codes with Nearly Optimal Sub-Packetization"

09:45–10:15 Invited Talk: Hoang Dau and Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois, USA):
"Access-Balanced Distributed Storage Codes via MaxMin Sum Steiner Triple Systems"

10:15–10:45 Invited Talk: Salim El Rouayheb (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA):
"Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization"

10:45–11:15 Coffee Break

Session 2 (Chair: Vladimir Sidorenko)

11:15–11:45 Invited Talk: Ilya Dumer (University of California Riverside, USA):
“Arikan’s Polarization: a Simplified Geometric Description”

11:45–12:15 Invited Talk: Eitan Yaakobi (Technion, Israel):
"Mutually Uncorrelated Codes for DNA Storage"

12:15–12:45 Invited Talk: Joachim Rosenthal (Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland):
"Hiding Distinguishers in Code Based Cryptography"

12:45–14:15 Lunch Break

Session 3 (Chair: Daniel Augot)

14:15–14:45 Invited Talk: Tuvi Etzion (Technion, Israel):
"Thermal-Management Coding for High Performance Interconnects"

14:45–15:15 Invited Talk: Grigory Kabatiansky (IITP Moscow, Russia):
"Multimedia Fingerprinting Codes as Codes for Multiple-Access Channels"

15:15–15:45 Invited Talk: Itzhak Tamo (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
"Optimal Repair of RS codes: Achieving the Cut-Set Bound"

15:45–17:15 Coffee Break & Poster Session

17:30 We leave together to the beergarden

Hotel Recommendations
We have allocated a number of rooms from July 2 until July 4 in the following hotels:

Hotel Lex: You can reserve a room there until June 1 by using the reservation code >TUM2017< for 85 Euro (single room).

Hotel Marienbad: You can reserve a single room for 85 Euro until June 23 by using the reservation code „TUM JULI“.

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