6.454 - Graduate Seminar in Area I - Fall 2007
Course Information Guidelines Topics Schedule

 

Date Topic Leader Papers Summary
9/5 Organization Urs/Mesrob N/A N/A
9/12 Overview of compressed sensing Venkat Chandrasekaran [Baraniuk07], [Candès06] [Report]
9/19 Mutual incoherence and
homotopy continuation
Dmitry Malioutov [DonohoHuo01], [MalioutovÇetinWillsky05] [Slides]
9/26 Allerton Week N/A N/A N/A
10/3 Exact time recovery from incomplete frequency measurements Mesrob I. Ohannessian, Parikshit Shah [CandesRombergTao06]  
10/10 Decoding by linear programming Vishal Doshi,
Srikanth Jagabathula
[CandesTao05]  
10/17 Minimum-rank solutions of LMEs via nuclear norm minimization Amir Ali Ahmadi,
Sleiman Itani
[RechtFazelParrilo07]  
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11/7 The MDL principle (1) MinJi Kim, Daniel Lucani [BarronRissanenYu98] [Report]
11/14 The MDL principle (2) Maryam Shanechi,
Shirley Shi
[BarronRissanenYu98]  
11/21 Thanksgiving Week N/A N/A N/A
11/28 Some Complexity Questions Related to Distributed Computing Urs Niesen [Yao79]  
12/5 Average and Randomized Communication Complexity Shreevatsa Rajagopalan [OrlitskyElGamal90]  
12/12 On the Communication Complexity of Solving a Polynomial Equation Ali ParandehGheibi [LuoTsitsiklis91]