Tutorial 1: Provable Dimensionality Reduction and its Applications
Nicholas Harvey (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Room: Allard 104
Sunday, June 2 14:00 - 15:00
Lunch break (box lunch)
Room: Allard Foyer
Sunday, June 2 15:00 - 17:00
Tutorial 2: Lossy Data Compression using Deep Learning
Jun Chen and Ashish Khisti (McMaster University and University of Toronto, Canada)
Room: Allard 104
Sunday, June 2 19:00 - 21:00
Welcome reception
Allard Terrace Lounge (Room 402)
Monday, June 3
Monday, June 3 9:00 - 10:00
Keynote 1: Coding for Fiber-Optic Communications
Frank Kschischang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Room: Allard 104
Monday, June 3 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room: Allard Foyer
Monday, June 3 10:30 - 12:10
M1: Integrated Sensing and Communications
Room: Allard 104
10:30 Non-coherent Over-the-Air Consensus for Wireless Decentralized Learning
Nicolò Michelusi (Arizona State University, USA)
10:50 Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications Using Uplink-Downlink Duality
Kareem M. Attiah (University of Toronto & Faculty of Engineering, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
11:10 Secure Communication with Moving Eavesdropper Using Integrated Sensing and Communication
Ahmed A. A. Al-Habob and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Yindi Jing (University of Alberta, Canada)
11:30 Joint Design of Beamforming and Reflection Coefficients in Integrated Sensing and Backscatter Communication Systems
Shayan Zargari and Diluka Galappaththige (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada)
11:50 Localization in Multipath Environments via Active Sensing with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Yinghan Li and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Monday, June 3 12:10 - 13:30
Lunch break (box lunch)
Room: Allard Foyer
Monday, June 3 13:30 - 14:30
Keynote 2: Zeroth-Order Optimization: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Tara Javidi (University of California San Diego, USA)
Room: Allard 104
Monday, June 3 14:30 - 14:50
Coffee break
Room: Allard Foyer
Monday, June 3 14:50 - 16:30
M2: Multi-user/Multi-terminal Communication
Room: Allard 104
14:50 Efficient Resource Management in Uplink Symbiotic and Cooperative Backscatter Networks
Azar Hakimi and Shayan Zargari (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada)
15:10 Achievable Rate Regions for Multiple-Time-Slot Multiple Access Computation Offloading
Xiaomeng Liu and Timothy N. Davidson (McMaster University, Canada)
15:30 An Array Receiver Based on Two-Layer $J$-Best Selection / Maximal-Ratio Combining
Sebastien Roy (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
15:50 Coded Downlink Massive Random Access
Ryan Song (University of Toronto, Canada); Kareem M. Attiah (University of Toronto & Faculty of Engineering, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
16:10 A Graph Neural Network Approach for Phase Shifter Network Online Calibration
Idan Roth (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Monday, June 3 16:30 - 16:50
Coffee break
Room: Allard Foyer
Monday, June 3 16:50 - 18:30
M3: THz and Optical Communication
Room: Allard 104
16:50 Bayesian Phase Search for Probabilistic Shaping
Mohammad Taha Askari and Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
17:10 Adaptive Optics using Single Pixel Imagers for Atmospheric Laser Satellite Downlinks
Mohamadreza Pashazanoosi and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada); Oliver J Pitts (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Costel Flueraru (National Research Council of Canada, Canada); Antony Orth (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
17:30 Channel Estimation for Wideband Terahertz MIMO using Pulse Spectroscopy
Ayush Madhan-Sohini and Adebola Olutayo (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Jonathan F. Holzman (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
17:50 Square-Wave Spatial Optical OFDM
Zhenyu Zhang and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
18:10 Precoding for Optical Wireless MISO Broadcasting
Zhenyu Zhang (McMaster University, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
Monday, June 3 19:00 - 21:00
CSIT meeting and light dinner (Sushi)
Allard Terrace Lounge (Room 402)
Tuesday, June 4
Tuesday, June 4 9:00 - 10:00
Keynote 3: On Getting Higher Resolution with Fewer Bits: Information Theoretic Perspectives on ADC Architecture
2024 Ian F Blake Lecture
Greg Wornell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Room: Allard 104
Tuesday, June 4 10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
Room: Allard Foyer
Tuesday, June 4 10:30 - 12:40
T1: Coding/Information Theory
Room: Allard 104
10:30 New results on MDP convolutional codes
Zitan Chen (CUHK-Shenzhen, China)
10:50 Byzantine-Tolerant Erasure Coding for Blockchains
Mohammad Jalalzai, Saeid Yazdinejad and Chen Feng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
11:10 Optimal single-letter codes are Kelly bets
Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada); Alexander S Moffett (Northeastern University, USA)
11:30
11:40 Sparse Gaussian Gradient Code
Yuxin Jiang (University of British Columbia, Canada); Wenqin Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Canada); Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lele Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
12:00 New Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem via Hadamard Matrices
Liam Salt and Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
12:20 Extended and Entanglement-assisted Quantum Quasi-twisted Codes