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All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Lightning Talks I
Mike Luby (International Computer Science Institute), Alex Dimakis (University of Texas, Austin), Thomas Richardson (Qualcomm Inc), Rüdiger Urbanke (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Ameya Velingker (Carnegie Mellon University), Christina Fragouli, UCLA and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Mike Langberg, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology, David Burshtein, Tel Aviv University, Lara Dolecek, UCLA
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Break
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Lightning Talks II
Emmanuel Abbe (Princeton University), Emina Soljanin, Bell Labs, Patrick Pak‑Ching Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, P. Vijay Kumar, Indian Institute of Science and University of Southern Californ…, Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto, Viveck Cadambe, Pennsylvania State University, Guy Even, Tel Aviv University, Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University
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Lunch
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Lightning Talks III
Carol Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin), Henry Pfister (Duke University), Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Arya Mazumdar, University of Minnesota, Florent Krzakala, École Normale Supérieure Paris, Paul Siegel, UC San Diego
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Break
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Lightning Talks IV
Mary Wootters (Stanford University), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University), Sergey Yekhanin (Microsoft Research), Daniel Costello, University of Notre Dame, Emre Telatar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research Redmond, Warren Gross, McGill University
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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Statistical Estimation on Graphs
Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
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Theory from Codes: An Expanded View of Reduction
Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology
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Break
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Are Polar Codes Practical?
Warren Gross, McGill University
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The Edge Removal Problem
Mike Langberg, University at Buffalo, SUNY
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Lunch
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Multi-version Coding and Shared Memory Emulation
Viveck Cadambe, Pennsylvania State University
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Structural Properties of Erasure Codes for Streaming Communication
Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto
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Break
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New Problems in Coding Theory with Applications to Modern Data Storage and Memories
Lara Dolecek, UCLA
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A Theory of Polarization
Emre Telatar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Coffee and Check-In
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Codes for Distributed Storage: Recent Results
P. Vijay Kumar, Indian Institute of Science and University of Southern Californ…
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Storage Codes and Data Retrieval
Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs)
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Break
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STAIR Codes: A General Family of Erasure Codes for Tolerating Device and Sector Failures in Practical Storage Systems
Patrick Pak-Ching Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Spatial Coupling vs. Block Coding: A Comparison
Daniel Costello, University of Notre Dame
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Coding for DNA-based Storage Systems
Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Coding Theory for Scalable Media Delivery
Mike Luby (International Computer Science Institute)
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Deletion Codes in the High-noise and High-rate Regimes
Carol Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Break
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Locally Recoverable Code Constructions and Some Extensions
Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University
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List Recovery and Local Decoding of Expander Codes
Mary Wootters (Stanford University)
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Lunch
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Polar Codes over q-ary Alphabets and Polynomially Fast Convergence to Shannon Capacity
Ameya Velingker (Carnegie Mellon University)
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A Student's View of Locally Repairable Codes
Arya Mazumdar, University of Minnesota
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Break
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Reed-Muller and Other Subcodes of the Sierpinski Matrix
Emmanuel Abbe (Princeton University)
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Non-malleable Codes Against Constant Split-state Tampering
David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Deterministic Rateless Codes for BSC
Guy Even, Tel Aviv University
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Sparse Superposition Codes for the AWGN Channel, Message Passing, Replica and Spatial Coupling
Florent Krzakala, École Normale Supérieure Paris
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Break
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Symmetric Product Codes
Henry Pfister (Duke University)
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Gap to Capacity of Finite Length Polar Codes
David Burshtein, Tel Aviv University