Tik-61.181 Special Course in Information Science I

Preliminary seminar schedule, wednesdays 14-16:

If your name appears on a date that doesn't suit you, please
contact the lecturer.

30.9:	Mikko Kokkonen    Introduction to Information Theory (Ch 1)
	Ville Viitaniemi  The Source Coding Theorem (Ch 2)
(Note! Location: Hall Y313)

7.10:	Sami Brandt       Symbol Codes (Ch 3)
	Tuomas Pantsar    Stream Codes (Ch 4)

14.10:	Cancelled

21.10:	P. Pajunen        On Noisy Channels (Ch 5 and Ch 6)
	J. Koivisto       Error Correcting Codes and Real Channels (Ch 7)
(Note! From now on, location is: Hall T4, Computer science building)
 
28.10:	X. Giannakopoulos Bayesian Inference (Ch 10)
	H. Lappalainen    Laplace methods (Ch 12+extra material)

4.11:	Jaakko Särelä     Axioms of Bayesian Probability Theory
	Maria Genzer      Single neuron capacity (Ch 17 and 18)

11.11:	Jarkko Salojärvi  Minimum Message Length (extra material)
	Vuokko Vuori      Bits-back (extra material)

18.11:	Markus Varsta     Hopfield and Boltzmann networks (Ch 20 and 21)
	Janne Nikkilä     Stereo vision (from book "Perception as Bayesian...")

25.11:	Patrik Hoyer      Learning as Inference (Ch 19)
	Aki Vehtari       Monte Carlo Methods (Ch 13)

2.12 :  Jani Räty         Shape from Shading (from book "Perception...")