Selected Presentations

RNA-Seq Assembly: Fundamental Limits, Algorithms and Software, International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing, Bremen, Germany, 2014.

Information Theory of High Throughput Sequencing, Plenary talk, ITA 2014.

Risk Limiting Dispatch for Power Networks, ITA 2013.

The Science of Information: From Communication to DNA Sequencing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, December, 2012.

Geometry of Optimal Power Flow on Trees and its Application to the Voltage Regulation Problem, Optimization and Control for Smart Grids, 32nd CNLS Annual conference, Santa Fe, May 21-25, 2012.

How Not to Leave Money on the Table, TCE Conference, Technion, June 7, 2012.

Information Theory: From Wireless Communication to DNA Sequencing, Gilbreth Lecture, NAE Annual Meeting, Feb. 9, 2012.

Information Theory of DNA Sequencing, LIDS Student Conference, MIT, Feb. 2, 2012.

Wireless Information Flow: From Cell Phones to Matroids , EECS Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley, April 14, 2010.

It is Easier to Approximate, ISIT 2009 plenary talk.

Interference: An Information Theoretic View, ISIT 2009 Tutorial.

A Resource Sharing View of Interference, Communication Theory Workshop 2009 Plenary .

Information Theory Summer School 2008.

Information Theory of Wireless Networks: A Deterministic Approach, 2008 CISS plenary.

Breaking the Interference Barrier, Mobicom/Mobihoc Plenary, September, 2007.

Gaussian Interference Channel Capacity to Within One Bit, given at EPFL, MIT etc.

Hierarchical Cooperation Achieves Linear Scaling in Ad Hoc Networks, given at MIT, EPFL, Stanford, etc.

When Shannon Meets Marconi ICASSP Plenary, May 16, 2006.

Talk at Viterbi Conference, March 9, 2005.

A Brief History of Communications, April 23, 2003.

Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff in MIMO Channels, Smart Antenna Workshop, Intel , February 26, 2004.

Mobilize!, University of Toronto, September 23, 2003.

Diversity and Multiplexing; A Fundamental Tradeoff in Wireless Systems, University of Toronto, 2003.

Smart Scheduling and Dumb Antennas, BWRC, September 20, 2002.

Multiuser Diversity in Wireless Networks: Smart Scheduling, Dumb Antennas and Epidemic Communication, IMA Wireless Workshop, Minneapolis, August 10, 2001.

Multiuser Diversity in Wireless Networks, Stanford University, April 16, 2001.

Packing Spheres in the Grassmann Manifold, Talk at EPFL, July, 2000.