Programme
Day 0: Wednesday, May 16 | |
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Morning | |
8:45 – 9:00 | |
9:00 – 9:15 | 9:00 – 16:00: Tutorial day |
9:15 – 16:00 | Lecturer: Uwe Ehret (http://hyd.iwg.kit.edu/english/Staff_Ehret.php) |
Introduction to the basic concepts and terms of Information Theory: Information, Uncertainty, Shannon Entropy, Mutual Information, Joint Entropy, Conditional Information, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Cross Entropy. The tutorial will be a mixture of presentation and hands-on examples (no computer needed). We will also briefly discuss the connection of Bayesian approaches and Information Theory, and some concepts of Data-based Learning (Curse of Dimensionality) |
Day 3: Saturday, May 19 | ||
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Coffee & Greetings | 8:45 – 9:00 | |
Workshop Summary | 9:00 – 9:30 | |
Breakout Discussion Groups | 9:30 – 10:30 | |
Topic: What are barriers to practical applications of IT concepts and how to overcome them? | ||
10:30 – 10:45 | ||
Reports from Breakout Groups | 10:45 – 11:15 | |
Plenum Discussion | 11:15 – 12:00 | |
Workshop Ends | 12:00 | |
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