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Gone Fishin'
Presenter(s)
Venkat Anantharam
University of California, Berkeley
IEEE ISIT 2020, Los Angeles (Virtual)
Plenary Lecture
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Abstract
The Poisson process and point processes in general have much to bring to the toolbox of the information theorist, apart from arising naturally when building models in some information theoretic problems of physical interest. This talk will attempt to reel up some of the times point processes have bitten the hook of researchers in the river of information theory.
The aim is to highlight some striking results and some intriguing techniques in this area