Important dates (subject to change):
08/27 - Introduction
08/29, 08/31 - Ch.2: Entropy and mutual information
09/03 - HOLIDAY (Labour day) NO CLASS
09/05, 09/07, 09/10 - Ch.2: Entropy and mutual information
09/12, 09/14, 09/17 - Ch.3: Asymptotic Equipartition Property (AEP)
09/19 - Ch.4: Entropy rate of a stochastic process (only a very small portion)
09/21 - slack (or moving on)
09/24, 09/26, 09/28, 10/01, 10/03 - Ch.5: Data compression
10/01 - list of 3 Project papers DUE (you will be assigned one of them hopefully)
10/03 - I will post paper assignments
10/05 - MIDTERM 1 IN CLASS (one cheat sheet)
10/08, 10/10, 10/12, 10/15, 10/17 - Ch.7: Channel capacity
10/19, 10/22, 10/24 - Ch.8: Differential entropy
10/26, 10/29, 10/31, 11/02, 11/05 - Ch.9: Gaussian channel
11/07, 11/09, 11/12, 11/14 - Ch.10: Rate-distortion theory
11/16 - MIDTERM 2 IN CLASS (two cheat sheets)
11/19, 11/21, 11/23, 11/26, 11/28, 11/30 - Ch.15: Network information Theory
11/30 - Project and slides due.
12/03, 12/05 - Ch.11: Information theory and statistics
12/07 - Last class: review
12/07 - project evaluation of others due
Week of December 10, 2018: FINAL EXAM
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NatashaDevroye - 2017-08-10