Workshop on Information Theory and Related Fields - In Memory of Ning Cai

Workshop on Information Theory and Related Fields - In Memory of Ning Cai
Sadly, our esteemed colleague and friend Ning Cai passed away on 25th May, 2023. For this reason we are organising a workshop in memory of Ning Cai at the Bielefeld ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research) from 24th November to 26th November, 2023.
Ning Cai

Workshop Webpage:

https://www.ce.cit.tum.de/lnt/events/2023-workshop-on-information-theory-and-related-fields-in-memory-of-ning-cai/

Sadly, our esteemed colleague and friend Ning Cai passed away on 25th May, 2023. For this reason, Ingo Althöfer, Holger Boche, Christian Deppe, Jens Stoye, Ulrich Tamm, Andreas Winter, and Raymond Yeung are organising the “Workshop on Information Theory and Related Fields” in memory of Ning Cai at the Bielefeld ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research) from 24th November to 26th November, 2023.

Program

Friday:       8:30 - 19:00 (scientific program at ZIF),

Saturday:   9:00 - 18:00 (scientific program at ZIF),

Sunday:    11:00 - 14:00 (social event at Hotel Mercure Johannesberg).

It is therefore advisable to arrive on Thursday evening and leave on Sunday afternoon.

Confirmed Participants

  • Andreas Winter            (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
  • Anshul Singhal             (Technical University of Munich)
  • Aparna Sivakumar
  • Ark Modi                       (Technical University of Munich)
  • Benedikt Baier              (Technical University of Munich)
  • Bernhard Balkenhol      (Vitroconnect system)
  • Caspar von Lengerke   (Technical University of Dresden)
  • Christian Deppe           (Technical University of Munich)
  • Christoph Hirche*         (National University of Singapore)
  • Eduard Jorswieck*        (Technical University of Braunschweig)
  • Evagoras Stylianou       (Technical University of Munich)
  • Ferdinando Cicalese*    (University of Verona)
  • Florian Seitz
  • Frank Fitzek*                 (Technical University of Dresden)
  • Gyula OH Katona*         (Alfred Renyi Institute, Hungary)
  • Gerhard Kramer             (Technical University of Munich)
  • Holger Boche                 (Technical University of Munich)
  • Ilia Vorobev                    (Technical University of Munich)
  • Ingo Althöfer*                   (University of Jena)
  • Janis Nötzel                    (Technical University of Munich)
  • Jens Stoye                      (University of Bielefeld)
  • Juan Cabrera                  (Technical University of Dresden)
  • Julia Kunzelmann            (Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf)
  • Jyun-Sian Wu                  (Technical University of Braunschweig)
  • Johannes Rosenberger  (Technical University of Munich)
  • Marcel Mross                  (Technical University of Braunschweig)
  • Masahito Hayashi*         (Nagoya University)
  • Minglai Cai                     (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
  • Moritz Wiese                  (Technical University of Munich)
  • Olaf Gröscho                  (Technical University of Munich)
  • Péter L. Erdős*               (Alfred Renyi Institute, Hungary)
  • Pin-Hsun Lin                   (Technical University of Braunschweig)
  • Pit Hofmann                    (Technical University of Dresden)
  • Raymond W. Yeung*        (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Rami Ezzine                   (Technical University of Munich)
  • Roberto Ferrara              (Technical University of Munich)
  • Sifat Rezwan                  (Technical University of Dresden)
  • Tobias Oechtering           (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
  • Ugo Vaccaro*                  (University of Salerno)
  • Ulrich Tamm                    (Applied University of Bielefeld)
  • Han Vinck*                      (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • Vladimir Blinovsky*          (Technical University of Munich)     
  • Vladimir Sidorenko          (Technical University of Munich)
  • Yanlin Chen*                    (University of Duisburg-Essen)
  • Yossef Steinberg*            (Technion, Haifa)
  • Zsuzsanna Lipták*           (University of Verona)
  • Zuhra Amiri                      (Technical University of Munich)

Footnote: Attendees designated with an asterisk (*) are scheduled to deliver presentations during the workshop. 

Poster Presentations

  • Capacity Bounds for Identification with Effective Secrecy (Ibrahim)

  • Computing Functions over Channels and connections to (K-)identification (Rosenberger)

  • Correcting one error in channels with feedback (Vorobyev)

  • Functional Compression for goal-oriented communication in control applications (Rezwan)

  • Minimal Trellises for Decoding Quantum Stabilizer Codes (Stylianou)

  • Network Coding in Molecular Communication Networks (Hofmann)

  • Pointwise Maximal Leakage (Oechtering)

  • Practical Perspectives on ID Codes (von Lengerke)

  • Simulation-based analysis of delay-reducing quantum repeater protocols (Baier)

  • Source Identification (Gröscho)
  • Testing of Hybrid Quantum-Classical K-Means for Nonlinear Noise Mitigation (Modi)

Further Information

If you need financial support, please contact: [email protected]

We will prepare a memorial collection in memory of Ning Cai, to be published by Springer Verlag. For this, we ask for the submission of surveys and research papers; but also stories about Ning, about the joint work or even anecdotes are welcome. Please send submissions to the following email: [email protected]

If you are unable to attend the memorial workshop in memory of Ning Cai, we welcome videos in his memory of up to two minutes duration. We will show a compilation of the videos during the workshop.

Accommondations

Accommodations nearby are Mercure Hotel Bielefeld Johannisberg, Hotel Bartsch and Hotel Stadt Bremen.

Another option is to book a hotel downtown near the town rail (Stadtbahn). The town rail goes to the university and from there it takes 10 minutes to walk to ZIF:

More Information

Event location
Bielefeld ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research)
Call For Papers Deadline
Feb 28, 2024