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2024

Seminars

October 25	Theory talk Optimal second-order methods are not ``optimal'' in terms of computation LIU Chengchang
October 4	Theory talk Information Theory and Optimization Challenges in Machine-Learning Decoders LAU Chin Wa, Ken
September 27	Theory talk Information-theoretical iterative optimization algorithm Prof. Masahito Hayashi, CUHKSZ
July 23	ITCSC-CSE-IE Joint Seminar Graph sparsification by deterministic discrepancy walks Prof. Lap Chi Lau, University of Waterloo

Summer Research Program

July 2 - August 23

Summer Research Program 2024

2020-2023

Seminars

August 18, 2023

IE Seminar

Cheeger-Type Inequalities Using Reweighted Eigenvalues
Lap Chi Lau, University of Waterloo

Summer Research Program

July 3 - August 25, 2023	Summer Research Program 2023
July 5 - August 27, 2021	Summer Research Program 2021
July 16 - September 4, 2020	Summer Research Program 2020

2019

Joint Seminars

December 24	ITCSC-CSE Joint Seminar Max Cut is Approximated by Subexponential-Size Linear Programs Luca Trevisan, Bocconi University
December 24	ITCSC-CSE Joint Seminar Improved analysis of higher order random walks and applications Lap Chi Lau, University of Waterloo
September 11	ITCSC-CSE Joint Seminar Scrumptious Sandwich Problems: A Tasty Retrospective for After Lunch Martin Charles Golumbic, University of Haifa
July 2	ITCSC-CSE Joint Seminar CSPs and Expansion Madhur Tulsiani,Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
January 10	ITCSC-CSE Joint Seminar Adaptive Garbled Circuits with Near-Optimal Online Complexity Akshayaram Srinivasan, UC Berkeley

Summer Research Program

June 30 - 23 August

Summer Research Program 2019

Summer Research Program Rundown 2019

2018

Joint Seminars

December 12	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Self-Programming Networks: Architecture and Algorithms Prof. Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University
December 11	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Spectral analysis of matrix scaling and operator scaling Prof. Lap Chi Lau, University of Waterloo
December 11	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Graph sparsifiers Prof. Luca Trevisan, U.C. Berkeley
December 3	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Cloud Radio Access Networks, Distributed Information Bottleneck, and more: A Unified Information Theoretic View Prof. Shlomo Shamai , The Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
October 24	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Settling the Sample Complexity of Single-parameter Revenue Maximization Dr. Zhiyi Huang , The University of Hong Kong
June 19	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Sampling in High Dimension YinTat Lee , Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Jan 23	Faculty of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic Control Prof. Sanjoy Mitter , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 19	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma Prof Jelani Nelson, Harvard University
Jan 12	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar The Paulsen Problem, Continuous Operator Scaling, and Smoothed Analysis Dr. Tsz Chiu KWOK , Postdoc researcher, University of Waterloo

Summer Research Program

July 7 - 24 August

Summer Research Program

Summer Research Program Rundown

2017

Workshops

Apr 12	A Workshop on Information Theory and Mathematics - co-organized by HK IT-chapter, INC, and ITCSC
Jan 16-29	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2017

Joint Seminars

December 4	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Equivocating Yao: Constant-Round Adaptively Secure Multiparty Computation in the Plain Model Oxana Poburinnaya , PhD student, Boston University
October 31	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar An Information Theoretic Perspective of Fronthaul Constrained Cloud and Fog Radio Access Networks Prof. Shlomo Shamai Shitz, Technion − Israel Institute of Technology
October 09	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Promise Constraint Satisfaction Prof. Venkatesan Guruswami, Carnegie Mellon University
May 04	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar The Electric Vehicle Touring Problem Prof. Chung-Shou Liao, National Tsing Hua University

2016

Workshops

Dec 20	Hong Kong TheoryFest 2016
Aug 22-26	China Theory Week 2016
Jan 25-29	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2016

Joint Seminars

Dec 20	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Computational Medicine and Health Care Prof. Danny Chen, University of Notre Dame
Oct 27	ITCSC Joint Seminar The Hardness of Minimum Fill-In: A Dark Secret of the Old Chinese Art Dr. Yixin Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
May 26	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Differentially Private Release and Learning of Threshold Functions Mr. Mark Bun, Harvard University
Apr 21	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar The Border between Possible and Impossible in Data Privacy Prof. Salil Vadhan, Harvard University and National Chiao-Tung University
Apr 18	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Randomness Extraction from Generalized Santha-Vazirani Sources Dr. Omid Etesami, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
Jan 21	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar The Power of Adaptivity in Data Analysis Mr. Thomas Steinke, Harvard University

2015

Workshops

Jan 26-30	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2015
Jan 9	Hong Kong Theory Day 2015

CSE Seminars

Dec 22	CSE Seminar Correlation Bounds Against Monotone NC^1 Prof. Benjamin Rossman, National Institute of Informatics
Dec 22	CSE Seminar Lower Bounds for Bounded-Depth Formulas Prof. Benjamin Rossman, National Institute of Informatics

Joint Seminars

Dec 7	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Efficient Pseudorandom Functions via On-the-Fly Adaptation Prof. Dominique Schröder, Saarland University
Oct 19	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Old and New PCP Constructions: Towards the Sliding Scale Conjecture Prof. Prahladh Harsha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Sep 23	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Compressing Communication in Distributed Protocols Mr. Ilan Komargodski, Weizmann Institute
Jun 15	ITCSC-INC Joint Seminar Communication Amid Uncertainty Dr. Madhu Sudan, Microsoft Research New England
Apr 8	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Reed-Muller Codes for Random Errors and Erasures Prof. Amir Shpilka, Tel-Aviv University

2014

Workshops

Jan 20-23

ITCSC-INC Winter School 2014

Joint Seminars

Dec 1	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Random Oracles in the Real World through the Eyes of Obfuscation Mr. Arno Mittelbach, TU Darmstadt
Nov 17	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar An Algebraic Approach to Non-Malleability Dr. Silas Richelson, University of California, Los Angeles
Oct 21	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Majority is incompressible by AC^0[p] circuits Mr. Igor Oliveira, Columbia University
Aug 7	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar An Algebraic Approach to Non-Malleability Prof. Alon Rosen, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
Aug 7	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Physical Randomness Extractors: Generating Random Numbers with Minimal Assumptions Dr. Kai-Min Chung, Academia Sinica
Jun 20	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Authentication in Constrained Settings Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology
Jan 6	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Space-Bounded Communication Complexity Mr. Song Hao, Tsinghua University

2013

Workshops

July 8-9	Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Big Data
Jan 14-17	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2013 [photos]

Joint Seminars

Jan 4

CSE-ITCSC-INC Joint Seminar

A New Regularity Lemma and Faster Approximation Algorithms for Low Threshold Rank Graphs
Prof. Luca Trevisan, Stanford University

ITCSC Seminars

Feb 21

Cryptography with Streaming Devices
Prof. Periklis Papakonstantinou, IIIS/ITCS Tsinghua University

2012

Workshops

Jul 25-27	Network Science Workshop
Jul 23-24	Machine Learning Workshop
Jul 18-20	Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK Research Center Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science
Jun 18-22	Quantum Information Workshop
Jan 15-19	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2012 [photos]

ITCSC Colloquium

Jan 4	Global Solutions with Local Information: Optimizing Large-Scale Networks Based on Local Information Prof. Thomas Moscibroda, Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft Corporation
Jan 4	Stability vs. Cost of Matchings Prof. Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Joint Seminars

Dec 14	Engineering Faculty Distinguished Lecture The Science of Information: From Communications to DNA Sequencing Prof. David Tse, University of California at Berkeley
Jun 6	ITCSC-INC Joint Seminar New results on interference channels with three user pairs Dr. Bernd Bandemer, Postdoctoral researcher, University of California, San Diego
Apr 12	CSE-ITCSC-INC Joint Seminar Graph Connectivity, Network Coding, Expander Graph, and Matrix Rank Prof. Lap Chi Lau, Assistant Professor, CSE Department, CUHK

ITCSC Seminars

Aug 9	Can we teleport a quantum clock? Fundamental limits to the use of entanglement to simulate quantum communication Prof. Giulio Chiribella, Associate Professor, IIIS, Tsinghua University
Aug 2	Entanglement in Physical States Dr. Alioscia Hamma, Distinguished Research Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Apr 26	The Exponential Mechanism for Social Welfare: Private, Truthful, and Nearly Optimal Mr. Zhiyi Huang, PhD Student, CIS Department, University of Pennsylvania
Jan 18	Extreme-value Theorems for Optimal Multidimensional Pricing Mr. Yang Cai, PhD Student, CSAIL, MIT

2011

Workshops

Jan 17-21

ITCSC-INC Winter School 2011 [photos]

Joint Colloquium

Nov 8

CSE-ITCSC Joint Colloquium

Circuit Complexity meets the Theory of Randomness
Prof. Eric Allender, Professor, Rutgers University

Joint Seminars

Sep 15	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Binary Independent Component Analysis and Its Applications Prof. Rong Zheng, Assocaite Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston
Sep 8	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Mansour's Conjecture for Random DNF formulas Prof. Andrew Wan, Assistant Professor, ITCS, Tsinghua University
	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar New questions in pseudo-randomness for answering old problems Dr. Periklis Papakonstantinou, Assistant Professors, ITCS, Tsinghua University
Sep 1	CSE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Property Testing Lower Bounds via Communication Complexity Dr. Kevin Matulef, Postdoctoral Researcher, ITCS, Tsinghua University
Aug 30	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Economics of Cooperative Spectrum Sharing: Bargaining, Contract, and Auction Prof. Jianwei Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Aug 22	INC-ITCSC Joint Seminar Coding for Online (Causal) Adversaries Prof. Michael Langberg, Open University of Israel
Jul 14	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Scaling laws- how useful are they at predicting network performance? Prof. Ravi R. Mazumdar, Professor and University Research Chair, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jan 14	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Smart Grid Communications and Networking: An Overview Prof. Dusit Niyato, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

ITCSC Seminars

May 3	Towards the capacity region of two receiver broadcast channels Prof. Chandra Nair, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Jan 14	Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms Dr. Jelani Nelson, MIT CSAIL

2010

Workshops

Aug 9-11	Mini-workshop on the Theory of Computing
Mar 23-Apr 14	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Mar 8-9	The Broadcast Channel Summit
Jan 24-30	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2010 [photos]
Jan 4	Crypto Day

Colloquium

Feb 22	Two "Simple" Problems That Imply Strong Circuit Lower Bounds Prof. Ran Raz, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Weizmann Institute of Science.
	Strong Parallel Repetition Theorem for Free Projection Games Ms. Ricky Rosen, PhD student, Tel-Aviv University

Joint Seminars

Apr 30	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Synthesizing Distributed Algorithms for Combinatorial Network Optimization Prof. Minghua Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Jan 14	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Generating Secret in a Network Dr.Chung Chan, Ph.D. student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Jan 12	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Cooperative Interference Management in Multi-Cell Downlink Beamforming Prof. Shuguang Cui, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Jan 6	IE-ITCSC Joint Seminar Location-Aware Wireless Networks Prof. Moe Win, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

ITCSC Seminars

Nov 17	Feedback-driven Opportunistic Access Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks Prof. Xin Liu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis
Jul 28	Cryptographic Elections - Challenges and Opportunities Dr. Alon Rosen, School of Computer Science, The Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
Mar 15	Dynamic Indexability and the Optimality of B-trees and Hash Tables Prof. Ke Yi, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST
Jan 11	Efficient Indexes of Document Retrieval Problems Prof. Wing-Kai Hon, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

2009

Workshops

Jan 15-21

ITCSC-INC Winter School 2009 [photos]

Colloquium

Dec 21	Bipartite Ratio And Bipartite Density Of Triangle Free Subcubic Graphs Prof. Zhu Xuding, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun-Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Aug 5	Algorithms for Data Management Prof. Samir Khuller, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Apr 29	Data Reduction and FPT Kernelization: Practical Algorithms and Lower Bounds Prof. Michael Fellows, Professor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia
Apr 27	The Multivariate Approach to Algorithms and Complexity Prof. Michael Fellows, Professor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia

Theory Seminar Series

Aug 18	On Broadcast Scheduling Prof. Samir Khuller, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland
Jul 21	Sorting on Complete Bipartite Graphs Prof. Xiaoming Sun, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, BeijingProf. Andrew Yao, Director of ITCSC, CUHK
Jul 14	Codes against Online Adversaries Prof. Sidharth Jaggi, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Jul 7	Mathematical Modeling of Incentive Policies in P2P Networks Prof. John Lui, Chairman / Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Jun 30	Lower Bounds of Communication Complexity by Information Complexity Prof. Shengyu Zhang, Assistnat Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK

Joint Seminars

Dec 14	A Semidefinite Programming Approach to the Graph Realization Problem Prof. Jean Walrand, Professor, EECS, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Apr 16	Network Coding - A Paradigm Shift in Data Transport Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK
	Research on Network Virtualization Prof. Akihiro Nakao, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

ITCSC Seminars

Nov 19	Combinatorial Constructions of One-way Functions and Their Security Prof. Andrej Bogdanov, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Nov 9	Universal Rigidity and Edge Sparsification for Sensor Network Localization Prof. Anthony So, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Oct 28	On Marton's achievable region and proof of an information inequality using a Caratheodory type argument Prof. Chandra Nair, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Oct 19	On The Power of A Unique Quantum Witness Prof. Shengyu Zhang, Assistnat Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Sep 15	Capacity of Large-scale CSMA Wireless Networks Dr. Sid Chi-kin Chau, Croucher Foundation Research Fellow, Electrical and Electronic Department, University College London
Sep 11	Least Privilege Concept in Workflow Model Prof. Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Sep 3	Facets of Entropy Prof. Raymond W. H. Yeung, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK
Aug 31	An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness Prof. Mung Chiang, Electrical Engineering Department, Princeton University
Aug 12	An Evidence Based Learning Approach To Development And Evaluation Of An Interprofessional Education Core Competency Framework Prof. Jayshiro Tashiro, Professor, Health Education Technology Research Unit University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Jul 29	Perfect Matchings in O(n^{1.5}) Time in Regular Bipartite Graphs Prof. Sanjeev Khanna, Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Jul 15	An Approximation Approach to Network Information Theory Prof. David Tse, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Jul 6	Fairness with an Honest Minority and a Rational Majority Dr. Alon Rosen, School of Computer Science, The Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
Jun 24	Two-message quantum interactive proofs are in PSPACE Prof. Rahul Jian, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Jun 22	Facets of Entropy Prof. Raymond W. H. Yeung, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK
Jun 10	Redundancy-Related Bounds on Generalized Huffman Codes Dr. Michael Baer, Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Inc.
May 13	Scalable Nonblocking Switches and Geometric Intuition Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK
May 11	Unified Algebraic Theory for Sorting, Routing, Multicasting, & Concentration Networks Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor of Information Engineering, CUHK
May 7	A Tool Oriented Approach to Network Capacity Prof. Michelle Effros, Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Apr 9	Lower Bounds in Communication Complexity Prof. Shengyu Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Apr 6	Complexity-based Cryptography: A match that was once made in heaven Prof. Andrej Bogdanov, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Mar 9	Channel Codes Against Causal Adversaries Prof. Sidharth Jaggi, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Mar 2	Probabilistic Analysis of Semidefinite Programming Relaxations, with Application to Detection for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems Prof. Anthony So, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Feb 16	Rank Aggregation: Together We're Strongs Dr. Frans Schalekamp, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Feb 12	Deterministic Sampling Algorithms for Network Design Dr. Anke van Zuylen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Feb 9	Back-of-the-Envelope Computation of Throughput Distributions in CSMA Wireless Networks Prof. Liew Soung Chang, Chairman and Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Feb 2	Three Results on the Discrete Memoryless Broadcast Channel Prof. Chandra Nair, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK

2008

Workshops

May 23	CUHK-Tsinghua Student Workshop on Theoretical Computer Science
Feb 1	Theory Afternoon Random walk on graphs and its algorithmic applications Dr. Shengyu Zhang, Postdoctoral Researcher Computer Science Department and Institute for Quantum Computing, California Institute of Technology On Recent Developments in Learning with Agnostic Noise Dr. Elad Verbin, Postdoctoral, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University
Jan 21-26	ITCSC-INC Winter School 2008 [photos]
Jan 15	Theory Afternoon Sublinear Time Algorithms Prof. Luca Trevisan , Professor, University of Califronia, Berkeley Average-case hardness for errorless heuristics Dr. Andrej Bogdanov, Tsinghua University

Colloquium

Dec 29	Graphs and Polymorphisms Prof. Pavol Hell, Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Nov 18	Some Computer Science Techniques in Bioinformatics Prof. Wen-Lian Hsu, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nov 14	The Internet is Flat: a Brief History of Networking in the Next Ten Years Prof. Don Towsley, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Nov 11	Modeling Disruption Tolerant Networks: Fluid Models and Mobility Models Prof. Don Towsley, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts

Invited Seminars

Dec 18	Multipartite Quantum Entanglement and Tensor Rank Prof. Yaoyun Shi, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dec 15	Computing Equilibria in Large Games Dr. Constantinos Daskalakis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research-New England
Nov 26	Making Dense Networks Smarter with Randomized Network Coding and Distributed Signal Processing Prof. Kannan Ramchandra, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univesity of California, Berkeley
Oct 3	Approximation Algorithms on Metric Spaces and Graphs Dr. Hubert Chan, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany
Sep 8	Streaming Capacity of P2P Dr. Shao Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Sep 3	Design and Analysis of TCP for the Next Decade Internet Dr. Shao Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Jun 6	Optimisation on Manifolds Prof. Jonathan Manton, Executive Director, Australian Research Council
Jun 2	Computation: How does Nature compute and how should we? Prof. Jonathan Manton, Executive Director, Australian Research Council
May 30	The Connectivity of Finite Random Geometric Graphs Dr. Chi-kin Chau, Croucher Foundation Research Fellow, University College London
May 27	Power-Aware High-Performance Computing: The Dawn of the Green Computing Era Prof. Ishfaq Ahmad, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Texas at Arlington
Apr 28	Making Classical Zero Knowledge Protocols Secure Against Quantum Attacks(Part II) Dr. Pranab Sen, Reader, School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Apr 23	Making Classical Zero Knowledge Protocols Secure Against Quantum Attacks(Part I) Dr. Pranab Sen, Reader, School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Apr 21	Content Pipe Divide and Network Distribution Capacity Prof. Mung Chiang, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Apr 3	Routing in large networks despite Byzantine failures Dr. Radia Perlman, Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Apr 1	Data: Making it be there when you want it and go away when you want it gone Dr. Radia Perlman, Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Weekly Seminars

Oct 30	Utility-Optimal Random Access without Message Passing Prof. Jianwei Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Oct 23	Blind Maximum-Likelihood Detection of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes: High-Performance Efficient Implementations, Identifiability, and Code Constructions Prof. Ken Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering , CUHK
Oct 2	Reliable Communication in the Absence of a Common Clock Prof. Raymond Yeung, Professor of Information Engineering , CUHK
Sep 29	Martingales of Patterns Prof. Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Professor, Department of Information Engineering , CUHK
Sep 25	Khintchine-Type Inequalities and Their Applications in Optimization Prof. Anthony So, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Sep 8	Iterative Relaxation Prof. Lap-Chi Lau, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Apr 14	Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output Detection using Semidefinite Relaxation Prof. Ken Ma, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering , CUHK
Apr 7	A Simple Model for P2P Streaming Prof. Dah-ming Chiu, Professor, Department of Information Engineering , CUHK
Mar 17	Optimal power control in wireless ad hoc networks by linear multiplicative fractional programming Prof. Angela Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Mar 10	Approximating graph orientations with high rooted-connectivity Prof. Lap-Chi Lau, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Mar 3	Approximation Algorithms for Nonconvex Quadratic Optimization Prof. Shuzhong Zhang, Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Feb 18	Utility Maximization in Peer-to-peer Systems Prof. Minghua Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Feb 4	Designing Faster Algorithms by Random Separation Prof. Leizhen Cai, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK
Jan 28	Power Control in Multi-carrier Communication Systems Prof. Jianwei Huang, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Jan 14	On Broadcast Channels With 3 Or More Receivers Prof. Chandra Nair, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK

2007

Invited Seminars

Nov 28	A deterministic subexponential algorithm for solving parity games Prof. Uri Zwick, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
	Overhang Prof. Uri Zwick, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Nov 21	Interplays of Computer Science and Economics Prof. Xiaotie Deng, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

Weekly Seminars

Dec 5	"Real" and "Complex" network codes Prof. Sidharth Jaggi, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Nov 28	A Semidefinite Programming Approach to the Graph Realization Problem Prof. Anthony So, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, CUHK
Nov 14	Network Coding and Its Ramifications Prof. Raymond Yeung, Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Nov 7	Steiner tree packing Prof. Lap-Chi Lau, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, CUHK