Home Projects and events Summer Courses Information Theory

Programme

Course info Speaker bios

  • 10 July — 14 July, 2017

1st Day
09:00 — 10:00
Prof. Alexander Vardy: Private Information Retrieval: Coding Instead of Replication (Part I)
10:00 — 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 — 11:30
Prof. Alexander Vardy: Private Information Retrieval: Coding Instead of Replication (Part II)
11:30 — 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00
Prof. Anup Rao: Coding and Information in Interactive Communication (Part I)
14:00 — 14:30
Refreshment Break
14:30 — 15:30
Prof. Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali: Cache Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges (Part I)
15:30 — 20:30
Open Air Poster Session
2nd Day
09:00 — 10:00
Prof. Matthieu Bloch: Physical-layer security: information-theoretic tools and code constructions (Part I)
10:00 — 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 — 11:30
Prof. Tsachy Weissman: Statistical inference of and with information theoretic quantities via compression (Part I)
11:30 — 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00
Prof. Anup Rao: Coding and Information in Interactive Communication (Part II)
14:00 — 14:30
Refreshment Break
14:30 — 15:30
Prof. Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali: Cache Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges (Part II)
15:30 — 20:30
Open Air Poster Session
3rd Day
09:00 — 10:00
Prof. Matthieu Bloch: Physical-layer security: information-theoretic tools and code constructions (Part II)
10:00 — 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 — 11:30
Prof. Tsachy Weissman: Statistical inference of and with information theoretic quantities via compression (Part II)
11:30 — 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 — 21:00
Excursion
4th Day
09:00 — 10:00
Prof. Matthieu Bloch: Physical-layer security: information-theoretic tools and code constructions (Part III)
10:00 — 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 — 11:30
Prof. Tsachy Weissman: Statistical inference of and with information theoretic quantities via compression (Part III)
11:30 — 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00
Prof. Anup Rao: Coding and Information in Interactive Communication (Part III)
14:00 — 14:30
Refreshment Break
14:30 — 15:30
Prof. Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali: Cache Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges (Part III)
15:30 — 19:00
Poster Session
19:00 — 22:00
Banquet
5th Day
09:00 — 10:00
Prof. Matthieu Bloch: Physical-layer security: information-theoretic tools and code constructions (Part VI)
10:00 — 10:30
Refreshment Break
10:30 — 11:30
Prof. Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali: Cache Networks: Fundamentals, Opportunities, and Challenges (Part VI)
11:30 — 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 — 14:00
Prof. Anup Rao: Coding and Information in Interactive Communication (Part VI)
14:00 — 14:30
Refreshment Break
14:30 — 15:00
Prof. Matthieu Bloch: Physical-layer security: information-theoretic tools and code constructions (Part V)

Other courses

Ultracold atoms physics

20 May — 24 May, 2024

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Synchrotron radiation

17 June — 21 June, 2024

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Virus evolution and epidemiology 

15 July — 19 July, 2024

University of Hong Kong

Sports biomechanics

22 July — 26 July, 2024

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Stay in the loop!

Subscribe to keep up with the latest from Croucher Foundation.

Passionate about science?
Stay updated with the latest scientific developments in Hong Kong through Croucher News.

Subscribe to our regular newsletter and receive a digest of key science stories straight to your inbox. You'll also get updates from the Croucher Foundation on scholarships, scientific exchanges, and more.

Subscribe now and stay informed about Hong Kong's dynamic scientific landscape.

Email

First name

Last name

Organisation