WPI.2 Higher education in wireless communications

NEWCOM++ views the necessity to pursue an action of coordination and integration among the different post-graduate education programs available at local partners’ schools. This could be done following different strategies actually offered by international agreements, in which the Ph.D. students spend some times in a different institution with respect to the one in which they are enrolled, as e.g. the co-tutoring programs, by signing bilateral (multilateral) agreements between Universities, by using the autonomy guaranteed to the Ph.D. Schools by the national laws, etc. Our objective is to use all these actions and integrate them in a coordinated activity among the partner in order to offer to the NEWCOM++ PhD students following curricula in telecommunications the opportunity that is described above. The starting point will be emphasizing as much as possible all actions to make it possible for PhD students to obtain a PhD degree by at least two partner institutions (as is already in place for instance for Italy and France, and the same countries with Germany etc.). In order to reach the target we will: -propose mutual agreements to participating partners, -organize a yearly calendar of common courses offered to the Ph.D. students of the participant institutions, by using teleteaching and multimedia technology, and improving on the way already paved by NEWCOM with its Doctoral School, NEWDOCS. The participation to such initiatives, under conditions to be agreed in advance, will also be offered to non-NEWCOM++ European Universities. In addition to the tele-taught courses, NEWCOM++ will organize summer/winter schools with a typical one-week duration, which were so successful in NEWCOM. During those schools, discussions among Ph.D. students will be organized to help them in choosing/finalizing their major PhD topic.

Survey form about the «Cotutelle de thèse» or «double doctorat»: To be filled by October 30, 2009by all Newcom++ partners' representatives. The form is self contained and people after having filled it it can press the button "send" in Acrobat Reader, they will be asked for their email and Acrobat will automatically send to Lorenzo Vangelista the form.
Form for Students mobility: To be filled by October 30, 2009. The form is self contained and people after having filled it can press the button "send" in Acrobat Reader, they will be asked for their email and Acrobat will automatically send the form.
Winter School on Polar Coding: Polar codes are a class of capacity-achieving codes. The aim of this school is to give an intensive course on polar coding, from the inception of the idea to the current research issues.
Winter school on Iterative Techniques in Wireless Communications: Introduction of turbo codes together with their iterative decoding technique has opened new perspectives on digital receiver design. The idea of passing information back and forth between component decoders in a turbo decoder (called iterative processing or turbo processing) has found widespread applications not only in error control, but also in other areas of digital communications: detection, interference suppression, equalization and synchronization. Nowadays iterative processing has become prevalent in state-of-the-art receiver design. The aim of the School is to give an intensive course on principles, advances in theory and implementation aspects of wireless iterative receivers. The course covers a broad range of aspects of theory and practice of iterative processing, including the following topics: Model-based signal processing using factor graphs Graphical models and their applications to iterative receiver design Connection between graphical models and information geometry Towards a unified view of message passing techniques Variational message passing and its application to wireless receivers Reduced complexity decoding algorithms for iterative receivers Iterative parameter estimation, the EM-algorithm Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding (BICM-ID) – Analysis, interpretations, optimization Xampling: Sub-Nyquist sampling for sparse multi-band receivers Turbo decoder architectures: throughput and complexity tradeoffs Lecturers/Contributors of lectures: H.-A. Loeliger, ETH Zürich A.O. Berthet, Supelec G. Matz, S. Schwandter, Vienna University of Technology C. Navarro, G.E. Kirkelund, B. Fleury, Aalborg University E. Riegler, Vienna University of Technology H. Steendam, University of Gent Y. Eldar, Z. Ben-Haim, Technion P. Tyczka, M. Sybis, Poznan University of Technology P. Duhamel, Z. Naja, Supelec A. Svensson, A. Alvarado, Chalmers University of Technology M. Martina, Politecnico di Torino Intended audience: Graduate students and researchers with a solid background in Information Theory, Coding Theory and Wireless Communications. Contact persons: Registration and accommodation: Caroline Breck (cbm@es.aau.dk). Technical programme: Gunvor E. Kirkelund (gunvor@es.aau.dk). School web-site: http://www.es.aau.dk/sections/navigation_and_communications_navcom/winter_school_2010_iterative_techniques/

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