The workshop on coding and information theory will take place April 9-13, 2018 at the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, located at 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

This workshop will focus on new developments in coding and information theory that sit at the intersection of combinatorics and complexity, and will bring together researchers from several communities — coding theory, information theory, combinatorics, and complexity theory — to exchange ideas and form collaborations to attack these problems.

Squarely in this intersection of combinatorics and complexity, locally testable/correctable codes and list-decodable codes both have deep connections to (and in some cases, direct motivation from) complexity theory and pseudorandomness, and recent progress in these areas has directly exploited and explored connections to combinatorics and graph theory.  One goal of this workshop is to push ahead on these and other topics that are in the purview of the year-long program.  Another goal is to highlight (a subset of) topics in coding and information theory which are especially ripe for collaboration between these communities.  Examples of such topics include polar codes; new results on Reed-Muller codes and their thresholds; coding for distributed storage and for DNA memories; coding for deletions and synchronization errors; storage capacity of graphs; zero-error information theory; bounds on codes using semidefinite programming; tensorization in distributed source and channel coding; and applications of information-theoretic methods in probability and combinatorics.  All these topics have attracted a great deal of recent interest in the coding and information theory communities, and have rich connections to combinatorics and complexity which could benefit from further exploration and collaboration.

Participation: The workshop is open to participation by all interested researchers, subject to capacity. Click here to register.

Click here for a list of registrants. 

A list of lodging options convenient to the Center can also be found on our recommended lodgings page.

Confirmed participants include:

• Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University
• Simeon Ball, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Boris Bukh, Carnegie Mellon University
• Mahdi Cheraghchi, Imperial College London
• Sivakanth Gopi, Princeton University
• Elena Grigorescu, University of Purdue
• Hamed Hassani, University of Pennsylvania
• Navin Kashyap, Indian Institute of Science
• Young-Han Kim, University of California, San Diego
• Swastik Kopparty, Rutgers University
• Nati Linial, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Shachar Lovett, University of California, San Diego
• William Martin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Arya Mazumdar, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
• Or Meir, University of Haifa
• Olgica Milenkovic, ECE Illinois
• Chandra Nair, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
• Yury Polyanskiy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Maxim Raginsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sankeerth Rao Karingula, UC San Diego
• Ankit Singh Rawat, MIT
• Noga Ron-Zewi, University of Haifa
• Ron Roth, Israel Institute of Technology
• Atri Rudra, State University of New York, Buffalo
• Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Itzhak Tamo, Tel Aviv University
• Amnon Ta-Shma, Tel Aviv University
• Himanshu Tyagi, Indian Institute of Science
• David Zuckerman, University of Texas at Austin