Time: | Tu 5:00 - 6:00pm EST |
Location: | Room CSI 2118 (in the Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)) |
Armand M. Makowski | |
Office: | AVW - 2357 |
Voice: | (301) 405 - 6844 |
Fax: | (301) 314 - 9281 |
Email: | armand@isr.umd.edu |
armand@eng.umd.edu |
Time/date: By appointment only |
This edition of ENEE 698A will deal with methods of statistical physics applied to problems and issues of information processing. The presentations will cover Chapters 5-9 from the monograph
Hidetoshi NISHIMORI, Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing, Oxford Science Publications, Oxford University Press, New York (NY) 2001.
Each of the chapters will be covered in two lectures, each lecture being given by a different student. The two lectures for a given chapter should be ccordinated. The schedule of talks is given below.
DATE | SPEAKER | CHAPTER/TOPIC |
March 6, 2007 (Tu) | Makowski | Introductory Lecture (I) |
March 27, 2007 (Tu) | Makowski | Introductory Lecture (II) |
March 29, 2007 (Th) | Varna | Chapter 5: Error Correcting Codes |
April 3, 2007 (Tu) | Class cancelled | |
April 10, 2007 (Tu) | El Sherif | Chapter 5: Error Correcting Codes |
April 12, 2007 (Th) | Abdelkader/Ming | Chapter 6: Image Restoration |
April 17, 2007 (Tu) | Abdelkader/Ming | Chapter 6: Image Restoration |
April 24, 2007 (Tu) | Lu/Yao | Chapter 7: Associative Memory |
May 1, 2007 (Th) | Lu/Yao | Chapter 7: Associative Memory |
May 3, 2007 (Tu) | Naotoshi/Zheng | Chapter 8: Learning in perceptron |
May 8, 2007 (Th) | Naotoshi/Zheng | Chapter 8: Learning in perceptron |
May 10 2007 (Tu) | Lee | Chapter 9: Optimization Problems |
The final grade for the course will be based on the performance of each student in the following