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Progress in Mathematics for Communication Systems

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Monday, July 2nd

 

09:00 - 10:30        Opening

 

                                John Cioffi

                                Vectored DSLs, the Copper PON Substitutes

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Thomas Strohmer

                                On the Role of the Heisenberg Group for Communication Systems

 

Lunch

 

14:15 - 15:45        Welcome Address Prof. Kramer, Dean of the School of Engineering and Science

 

                                Werner Kozek

                                Multicarrier Modulation in Wireless and Wireline: Overview and Open Issues

 

Coffee Break

 

16:15 - 17:30        Amir Leshem

                                Applications of Game Theory to Multiuser Communication over

Interference-limited Channels

 

17:30 - 18:00        Informal Introduction Presentation of Participants

 

Dinner

 

19:00                      Local Tour to Bremen Vegesack

 

 

Tuesday, July 3rd

 

09:00 - 10:30        Steffen Trautmann

                                Equalizer Variants for DMT

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00(+)   Discussion Industry and Scientific Challenges

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:00        Thomas Magesacher

                                Spectrally Efficient Multicarrier Modulation

 

Coffee Break

 

15:30 - 17:00        Götz Pfander and Werner Kozek

                                Time-frequency Analysis

 

17:00 - 17:30        Henning Paul

                                MIMO Channel Measurements with a Hardware Demonstrator

 

17:30 – 18:00       Shuying Shi

                                Weighted sum-rate optimization for Multiuser MIMO systems with Linear Equalization

 

Dinner

 

20:00                      Football Match (Rain out)

                                Electrical Engineers vs. Mathematicians

 

 

Wednesday, July 4th

 

09:00 - 09:50        Rolf Johannesson

                                Minimality Questions for Convolutional Encoders - Part I

 

Coffee Break

 

10:20 - 11:10        Rolf Johannesson

                                Minimality Questions for Convolutional Encoders - Part II

 

11:20 - 12:00(+)   Maja Loncar

                                List Decoding

 

Lunch

 

13:45                      Excursion to Bremen including Guided Tour of City Center and Town Hall

 

 

Thursday, July 5th

 

09:00 - 10:30        Harald Haas

                                Capacity Issues of Wireless Networks

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Thorsten Koch

                                Planning Cellular Networks (Tutorial and Exercise)

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30        Martin Grötschel

                                Frequency Assignment

 

Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 17:00        Peter Oswald and Werner Henkel

                                PAR Reduction - Mathematical and Realization Aspects

 

17:00 - 17:30        Jörg Bühler

                                BC-MAC Duality and Capacity Computation for the Binary MAC

 

Dinner

 

20:00                      Movie: Good Bye Lenin

Jacobs University Movie Theatre

 

 

Friday, July 6th

 

09:00 - 10:30        Thorsten Koch

                                Integer Optimization: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Amir Leshem

                                Distributed Spectrum Management for DSL

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 15:30        Martin Schubert

                                Interference Calculus I – An Axiomatic Characterization of Interference in Wireless Networks

 

Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 17:30        Martin Schubert

                                Interference Calculus II – Algorithms for Resource Allocation

 

 

Monday, July 9th

 

09:00 - 10:30        Michael Stoll

                                Basics of Finite Fields

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Jossy Sayir

                                Iterative Decoding and LDPC Codes - Part I

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:50        Jossy Sayir

                                Iterative Decoding and LDPC Codes - Part II

 

15:10 - 16:00        Jossy Sayir

                                Iterative Decoding and LDPC Codes - Part III

 

Coffee Break

 

16:30 - 18:00        Amin Shokrollahi

                                Fountain Codes on the Erasure Channel

 

 

Tuesday, July 10th

 

09:00 - 10:30        Amin Shokrollahi

                                Raptor Codes on Binary Symmetric Channels

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Werner Henkel

                                Reed-Solomon Codes

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:40        Fangning Hu

                                Intuitive Understanding of Iterative Decoding

 

14:40 - 15:20        Khaled Hassan

                                Bit Loading to Achieve UEP

 

Coffee Break

 

15:50 - 16:30        Neele von Deetzen

                                UEP with Turbo and LDPC Codes

 

16:30 - 17:00        Apirath Limmanee

                                Aspects of Network Coding

 

 

Wednesday, July 11th

 

Excursion to Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven-Duhnen

 

09:00                      Gathering

 

09:15                      Bus Trip to Bremerhaven

 

10:15                      German Emigration Center Bremerhaven

 

Lunch

 

13:15                      Bus to the Harbor Area Bremerhaven, including Viewing Platform onto the Container Harbor

 

14:00                      Bus to Cuxhaven-Duhnen

 

                                Walking-Tour on the Tidelands

Please note: You should wear shorts or a pair of trousers that you can roll up. Please bring a daypack (if at hand), a towel, and a rain jacket.

 

18:00                      Bus back to Jacobs University

 

 

Thursday, July 12th

 

09:00 – 09:30       Oshri Naparstek

                                Information theoretic approach for radar beamforming design

 

09:30 - 10:00        Emily King

                                Frame theory

 

10:00 – 10:30       Niklas Grip

A discrete model for the efficient analysis of time-varying

narrowband communication channels          

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Götz Pfander

                                Operator Sampling

 

Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:30        Markus Hansen

                                An introduction to approximation theory

 

14:30 – 15:00       Chris Flake

                                Wedgelets

 

15:00 – 15:30       Felix Krahmer

                                Sigma-delta modulation

 

Coffee Break

 

16:00 - 16:40        Tomas Nordström

                                Dynamic Spectrum Management Revisited

 

16:40 – 17:30       Poster Session (location to be announced)

 

                                Ali Massoud

                                Broadband noise cancellation using wavelet packet transform and local trigonometric bases

 

                                Marc Selig

                                Adaptive Power loading for BICM-OFDM MIMO systems with outdated channel state

                                information

 

                                Mario Westmeister

                                Enhancement of IEEE 802.15.9 by using cooperative transmission

 

                                Thomas Edlich

                                Feedback – Aided selective subspace retransmission for outage-free spatial multiplexing

 

                                Zijang Ju              

                                Efficient channel description in time-frequency domain with application to flexible radio

 

 

Friday, July 13th

 

09:00 - 09:30        Humberto Neto

                                Collaborative coding multiple access

 

09:30 – 10:00       Chen Koker

                                LDPC on BEC decoding

 

10:00 – 10:30       Reza Moosavi

                                Subband coding

 

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:30        Concluding discussion

 

Lunch

 

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