For past reading groups click below:
Emerging Coding Techniques- Spring, 2017
Number Theory and Communications- Fall, 2016

Diophantine approximations and all that

This semester we will run a different reading group format. The format is roughly the following (expect for weeks 1 and 2): In the first hour, we will discuss a topic/paper of general interest on coding or cryptography, as usual. In the second hour, we plan to read the book Introduction to Diophantine approximation, by J. W. S. Cassels, Cambridge University Press, 1972, relatively into details.

Schedule

Date Topic Reader
Monday 14-16pm, 909B
08/05 Polar codes Ling Liu and Jinwen Shi
15/05 Diophantine Approximation
Ch. I and IV 		Shanxiang Lyu and Cong Ling
22/05 Lattice Index Coding
Diophantine Approximation Ch. III		 Nitish Mital and ?
Wednesday 14-16pm, 909B
30/05 Learning with Errors
Diophantine Approximation Ch. V - Part I 		Charlie Grover and Antonio Campello
06/06 Algebraic construction of dense lattices
Diophantine Approximation Ch. V - Part II		 Conghui Li and Antonio Campello
Tuesday 10-12am, 909B
13/06 Multi-dimensional lattice partition chains
Diophantine Approximation Ch. VII		 Jiabo Wang and Antonio Campello
Monday 14-16pm, 610B
19/06 Diophantine Approximations Ch. VIII
Diophantine Approximation by Algebraic Numbers		 Cong Ling and Shanxiang Lyu