Program Overview

Technical Program for the 2012 North American School of Information Theory

Time June 19 (Tuesday) June 20 (Wednesday) June 21 (Thursday) June 22 (Friday)
  8:00am Breakfast/Registration
RPCC Marketplace Eatery 
Robert Purcell Community Center
Breakfast
RPCC Marketplace Eatery 
Robert Purcell Community Center
Breakfast
RPCC Marketplace Eatery
Robert Purcell Community Center 
Breakfast
RPCC Marketplace Eatery
Robert Purcell Community Center 
  9:00am Elza Erkip
101 Phillips Hall

Information Theoretic 
Foundations of Cooperation
and Interaction in Multiuser Networks 
Tom Richardson  
101 Phillips Hall

Coding Theory


 
Pramod Viswanath  
101 Phillips Hall

Flows and Cuts
in Wireline and 
Polymatroidal Networks
 
Suhas Diggavi
101 Phillips Hall

Approximation approach
to Network Information Theory 
 
 12:00pm Lunch
Trillium Dining Hall
Lunch
Trillium Dining Hall 
Lunch
Trillium Dining Hall
Depart  
  2:00pm 30-Second Madness
101 Phillips Hall 
30-Second Madness
101 Phillips Hall 
30-Second Madness
101 Phillips Hall 
 
  Poster Session 1
Duffield Hall Atrium
Poster Session 2
Duffield Hall Atrium 
Poster Session 3
Duffield Hall Atrium 
 
  5:30pm Dinner
Duffield Hall Atrium
Dinner
Duffield Hall Atrium 
Dinner
Duffield Hall Atrium 

 
 7:00pm Open Problems and Puzzles
Duffield Hall Atrium
101 Phillips Hall 
Solutions   Recreation
Soccer/Hiking 
 

 

The school finishes at noon on June 22.
 
Conference Registration: Registration for the main body of the conference will be conducted at the Residential and Event Services RPCC registration desk after 2:00pm on Monday, June 18th. The service center is open daily from 7:00am until 11:00pm. If participants arrive after 11:00pm, student staff will be on-call and the number to call is posted at all building entrances. The Cornell Conference Services registration desk is just inside the Robert Purcell Community Center at the base of the stairway.