Program of the 2017 North-American School of Information Theory

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Poster session 1: Security, Statistics, and Machine Learning 

• Covert Communication over Degraded Broadcast Channels
• Covert Communication on Renewal Packet Channels
• Secrecy by Learning an Adversary's Actions
• Compound Multiple Access Wiretap Channel
• Capacity the EM Covert/SideChannel Created by the Execution of Instructions
• Multi-receiver Secrecy Models with More Capable Eavesdroppers
• Dynamic Watermarking: Active Defense of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
• Sequential measurement-dependent noisy search
• Reliability of Sequential Hypothesis Testing Can Be Achieved by an Almost-Fixed-Length Test
• Hypothesis Testing under Maximal Leakage Privacy Constraints
• Jackknife Estimation for Markov Processes with No Mixing Constraints
• Latent Tree Approximation in Linear Model
• Deep Learning for Joint Source and Channel Coding
• Information Processing and Social Organization in Archaeology: Decoding Gregory A. Johnson’s Models of Decision Making
• Distributed Statistical Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: Byzantine Gradient Descent

Poster session 2: Coding and Signal Processing

• Encoding of Spatially Coupled LDGM Codes for Lossy Source Compression
• Lower Bounds for Quantized LDPC Min-Sum Decoders Based on Absorbing Sets
• Towards a Proof of the GM-MDS Conjecture
• Comparison of Iterative Reconstruction Algorithm for Compressive Sensing Problem
• Deterministic Compressed Sensing: Recovery of Large Supports
• Data-driven approaches for seismic event detection and location on dense surface array
• Asynchronous Coded Caching
• Secretive Coded Caching
• Coded Caching for Combination Networks with Cache-Aided Relays
• Optimizing Coded Caching for Heterogeneous Systems
• Low Subpacketization Schemes for Coded Caching
• Coded Computation for Distributed Channel Decoding
• Capacity of the Energy Harvesting Channel with Block i.i.d. Energy Arrivals
• Cover's Open Problem: ``The Capacity of the Relay Channel’’

Poster session 3: Communication Systems

• Random multiple access codes for Gaussian MAC: Bounds via Dudley integral
• Fundamental limits of random access communication with retransmissions
• An Efficient Power Allocation Scheme for Multirelay Systems with Lossy Intra-Links
• Noisy Beam Alignment Techniques for Reciprocal MIMO Channels
• Network Coding Constructions for Wireless Distributed Storage Systems
• Estimating The VLQ-based Rate-Stability Tradeoff of Multi-sensor Linear Control Systems
• Strong Coordination Over Noisy Communication Channels: Separate Versus Joint Coding
• Coordination With Clustered Common Randomness in a Three-Terminal Line Network
• Information-Theoretic Analysis of Refractory Effects in the P300 Speller