The Boot Camp is intended to acquaint program participants with the key themes of the program, and consists of five mini-courses given by experts on various aspects of the program.

Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

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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Information Theory in Computational Complexity I
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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Break
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Coding for Modern Distributed Storage Systems I
Parikshit Gopalan (Apple Inc)
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Lunch
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Distribution Estimation and Applications I
Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego)
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Break
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Information Theory in Combinatorics I
Shachar Lovett, UC San Diego
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Coffee and Check-In
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Information Theory in Computational Complexity II
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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Break
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Coding for Modern Distributed Storage Systems II
Parikshit Gopalan (Apple Inc)
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Lunch
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Polar Codes I
Erdal Arıkan (Bilkent University)
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Break
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Information Theory in Combinatorics II
Shachar Lovett, UC San Diego
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Coffee and Check-In
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Information Theory in Computational Complexity III
Shachar Lovett, UC San Diego
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Break
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Coding for Modern Distributed Storage Systems III
Alex Dimakis (University of Texas, Austin)
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Lunch
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Distribution Estimation and Applications II
Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego)
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Break
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Polar Codes II
Erdal Arıkan (Bilkent University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Information Theory in Computational Complexity IV
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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Break
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Coding for Modern Distributed Storage Systems IV
Alex Dimakis (University of Texas, Austin)
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Lunch
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Distribution Estimation and Applications III
Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego)
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Break
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Polar Codes III
Erdal Arıkan (Bilkent University)