Welcome Welcome to the 2024 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium! 
Following the inaugural event in 2023, we are organising this one-day event on 10 May 2024, centred around top-quality talks in information theory and related areas. In addition, there is a poster session for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. The main aim is to bring together UK researchers in information theory and related areas as well as friends of the UK information theory community.
Location The Colloquium will take place at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK.
Confirmed Speakers
Talks
Organisers Amir R. Asadi University of Cambridge Albert Guillén i Fàbregas University of Cambridge Participants (Updated on 17th April) Thomas Courtade University of California, Berkeley Oliver Johnson University of Bristol Yossef Steinberg Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology Gholamali Aminian The Alan Turing Institute Varun Jog University of Cambridge Osvaldo Simeone KCL Po-Ling Loh University of Cambridge Eugenio Clerico Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Sidharth Jaggi University of Bristol Samir Perlaza INRIA Samah A. M. Ghanem Amir R. Asadi University of Cambridge Albert Guillén i Fàbregas University of Cambridge Pouya Moeini University of Cambridge Xiaoqi Shirley Liu University of Cambridge Francesc Molina Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Ioannis Kontoyiannis University of Cambridge Valentinian Lungu University of Cambridge Huiying Song Tokyo Institute of Technology Sharu Theresa Jose University of Birmingham Lan V. Truong University of Essex Lampros Gavalakis Univ Gustave Eiffel Ramji Venkataramanan University of Cambridge Cong Ling Imperial College London Hao Yan Imperial College London Pablo Pascual Cobo University of Cambridge Iñaki Esnaola University of Sheffield
Following the inaugural event in 2023, we are organising this one-day event on 10 May 2024, centred around top-quality talks in information theory and related areas. In addition, there is a poster session for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. The main aim is to bring together UK researchers in information theory and related areas as well as friends of the UK information theory community.
Location The Colloquium will take place at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK.
Confirmed Speakers - Thomas Courtade, University of California, Berkeley
- Oliver Johnson, University of Bristol
- Yossef Steinberg, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
| Coffee Meet-and-Greet | 11:00 - 11:30 |
| Thomas Courtade | 11:30 - 12:30 |
| Group Photo | 12:30 - 12:45 |
| Lunch and Poster Session | 12:45 - 14:00 |
| Yossef Steinberg | 14:00 - 15:00 |
| Coffee Break | 15:00 - 15:45 |
| Oliver Johnson | 15:45 - 16:45 |
- Title: TBC
- Speaker: Thomas Courtade, University of California, Berkeley
- Abstract: TBC
- Thomas Courtade is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a core member of the Center for Computational Biology at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2012 and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University within the NSF Center for Science of Information.
- Title: Relative entropy bounds for sampling with and without replacement
- Speaker: Oliver Johnson, University of Bristol
- Abstract: It is well-known that the distributions resulting from sampling with and without replacement from an urn of balls of c colours are close in a variety of senses. However, previous bounds on the relative entropy have not depended on the counts of balls of each colour. We remedy that here, providing two bounds which are tight for "balanced" (roughly equal numbers of each colour) and "unbalanced" cases respectively. As a consequence, we are able to deduce bounds of optimal order in the finite de Finetti theorem, which describes the probability distributions of exchangeable sequences.
(based on joint work https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06632 with Lampros Gavalakis, Ioannis Kontoyiannis)
- Oliver Johnson is a Professor of Information Theory and Director of the Institute for Statistical Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2000 and was a Clayton Research Fellow with Christ’s College, Cambridge, and a Max Newman Research Fellow with Cambridge University until 2006.
- Title: TBC
- Speaker : Yossef Steinberg, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
- Abstract: TBC
- Yossef Steinberg is a Professor at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University in 1990. He was a Lady Davis Fellow with the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University.
Organisers Amir R. Asadi University of Cambridge Albert Guillén i Fàbregas University of Cambridge Participants (Updated on 17th April) Thomas Courtade University of California, Berkeley Oliver Johnson University of Bristol Yossef Steinberg Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology Gholamali Aminian The Alan Turing Institute Varun Jog University of Cambridge Osvaldo Simeone KCL Po-Ling Loh University of Cambridge Eugenio Clerico Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona Sidharth Jaggi University of Bristol Samir Perlaza INRIA Samah A. M. Ghanem Amir R. Asadi University of Cambridge Albert Guillén i Fàbregas University of Cambridge Pouya Moeini University of Cambridge Xiaoqi Shirley Liu University of Cambridge Francesc Molina Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Ioannis Kontoyiannis University of Cambridge Valentinian Lungu University of Cambridge Huiying Song Tokyo Institute of Technology Sharu Theresa Jose University of Birmingham Lan V. Truong University of Essex Lampros Gavalakis Univ Gustave Eiffel Ramji Venkataramanan University of Cambridge Cong Ling Imperial College London Hao Yan Imperial College London Pablo Pascual Cobo University of Cambridge Iñaki Esnaola University of Sheffield
