Illustration of erasure decoding for an LDPC code graph fragment. (Image courtesy of Emin Martinian. Used with permission.)
Prof. David Gamarnik
Prof. Devavrat Shah
15.098
Spring 2006
Graduate
This seminar is intended for doctoral students and discusses topics in applied probability. This semester includes a variety of fields, namely statistical physics (local weak convergence and correlation decay), artificial intelligence (belief propagation algorithms), computer science (random K-SAT problem, coloring, average case complexity) and electrical engineering (low density parity check (LDPC) codes).