Several topics are introduced in the omnibus manner. The following subjects and schedule are tentative, and the actual classes will be organized in an flexible and adaptive manner.
1: review of Information Theory 2: practical source coding 3: analysis of error-correcting performance 4: cyclic codes and convolutional codes 5: turbo codes and LDPC codes 6: Shannon's channel coding theorem 7: flash codes 8: network code, Slepian-Wolf coding