Seminar: The Jacob Ziv Communication and Information Theory seminar
Combinatorial Applications of Shearer’s and Han’s Inequalities
Date:
April,03,2025
Start Time:
14:30 - 15:30
Location:
1061, Meyer Building
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Lecturer:
Prof. Igal Sason
Research Areas:
| Shearer’s inequalities in information theory have significant combinatorial applications, particularly in areas such as graph theory, and Boolean functions. This talk explores several formulations of these inequalities and delves into some of their intriguing applications, highlighting their utility. |
| Igal Sason received his B.Sc., Master, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1992, 1999, and 2001, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked as an electrical engineer in Israel. Between 2001 and 2003, he was a scientific collaborator at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. Since October 2003, he has been a faculty member at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Technion, where he is currently a professor and holds the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Academic Chair. He has received several academic awards. Since October 2021, he has also held a secondary appointment as a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at the Technion. His research focuses on information theory, coding theory, and graph theory.
Sason served in the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory for a total of ten years in various roles, including Associate Editor for Coding Theory, Associate Editor at Large, Executive Editor, and Editor-in-Chief. He also served as the Guest Editor of special issues on the mathematical foundations of information theory in the Entropy and the AIMS Mathematics journals. He is an IEEE Fellow of the Information Theory Society (since 2019), and a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (since 2024).
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