Reading seminar: Shannon theory

The mathematical theory of information has been initiated by the mathematician and engineer Claude E. Shannon to answer the purposes of communication technologies - the seminal paper (Shannon, C.E.: A mathematical theory of communication. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 27, 379--423, 623--656 (1948)) has been published in 1948. Nowadays this branch of probability theory plays an important role in various areas of the natural as well as social sciences. In response, it appears as an interdisciplinary research field. Technically, it has a significant overlap with mathematical statistics, ergodic theory or combinatorics.
We want to discuss selected articles from the volume 44 (6) of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1998) which has been published on the occasion of 50 years of Shannon theory. It gives an excellent overview of the major issues of information theory which link to topics such as lossless data compression, universal coding, reliable communication through noisy channels, universal prediction, statistical pattern recognition or pattern matching.

Date and time info
Wednesday 13.30 - 15.00

Language
Englsih