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Communication and Information Theory
October, 25, 2018 , 14:30Ronit Bustin General Motors Advanced Technical Center – Israel On: Generalized Gaussian Distributions in Information Theory This talk will focus on the family of distributions termed Generalized Gaussian (GG). The family of GG distributions has received considerable attention from the... Read MoreRead more about: Communication and Information Theory
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Guest Lecture
October, 23, 2018 , 11:30Prof. Jason O. Hallstrom Director of the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) Florida Atlantic University (FAU) On: Interdisciplinary Adventures in Applied Sensing Florida Atlantic University’s Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) coordinates university... Read MoreRead more about: Guest Lecture
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Probability and Stochastic Processes Seminar
October, 23, 2018 , 11:30Gady Kozma Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: New applications of the octopus lemma The octopus lemma states that certain operators on the symmetric group are positive semi-definite. Its original application was to resolve a long-standing conjecture of Aldous... Read MoreRead more about: Probability and Stochastic Processes Seminar
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Guest Lecture
October, 17, 2018 , 14:30Professor William J. Dally Stanford University On: Future of Computing – Domain Specific Accelerators Scaling of computing performance enables new applications and greater value from computing. With the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling, continued performance scaling will be... Read MoreRead more about: Guest Lecture
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Pixel Club
October, 16, 2018 , 11:00Ev Zisselman Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: A Local Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for the Convolutional Sparse Coding Model The Convolutional Sparse Coding (CSC) model has recently gained considerable traction in the signal and image processing communities. By... Read MoreRead more about: Pixel Club
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TCE Viterbi Special Guest Lecture
October, 11, 2018 , 11:30You are invited to attend a lecture by Distinguished Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo USC Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California On: Unveil Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Go Beyond The superior performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has... Read MoreRead more about: TCE Viterbi Special Guest Lecture
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Graduate Seminar
October, 04, 2018 , 11:30Iliah Konstantinovsky Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: Full duplex transceiver based on N-path filtering A Full duplex system allows simultaneous bi-directional communication and FDD based transceivers use frequency separation to achieve that. Most FDD systems are realized with... Read MoreRead more about: Graduate Seminar
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Graduate Seminar
September, 13, 2018 , 11:30Omri Harosh Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: Exploration in Continuous Domains Using Pseudo-Counts Exploration is long understood to be an essential part of control under uncertainty and partial knowledge. This can be traced back to the idea of... Read MoreRead more about: Graduate Seminar
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Graduate Seminar
August, 28, 2018 , 11:00Ev Zisselman Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: A Local Block Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Convolutional Sparse Coding The Convolutional Sparse Coding (CSC) model has recently gained considerable traction in the signal and image processing communities. By providing a... Read MoreRead more about: Graduate Seminar
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Pixel Club
August, 19, 2018 , 10:30Oran Shayer Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: A Deep Learning Approach for Generic Image Segmentation Recent advances in deep learning and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have had a profound impact on almost every computer vision task. However, generic... Read MoreRead more about: Pixel Club
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Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Seminar
August, 13, 2018 , 14:30Tal Tabachnik Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: Bi-Stable Nano Electromechanical Systems Exhibiting Snap-Through Buckling Instability Based on Carbon Nanotubes Mechanical bi-stability based on snap-through (ST) buckling is a well-known phenomenon in micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) which serves as the... Read MoreRead more about: Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Seminar
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Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Seminar
August, 06, 2018 , 14:30You are invited to attend a lecture by Ofir Sorias Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion On: Manipulation of emission from semiconductor nano-devices using plasmonic nano-structures My research broaden our knowledge regarding the effects of plasmonic nano antennas and other... Read MoreRead more about: Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Seminar
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Universal Sparse Representation
August, 01, 2018 , 14:30Signal Processing and Systems Graduate Seminar Speaker: Rotem Mulayof Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Sparse representation over redundant dictionaries constitutes a good model for many classes of signals (e.g. patches of natural images, segments of speech signals, etc.). However, despite its... Read MoreRead more about: Universal Sparse Representation
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Dark leakage current in organic photodiodes and road to hybrid CMOS imager
July, 29, 2018 , 14:30Electro-Optics and Microelectronics Seminar Graduate Seminar Speaker: Himanshu Shekhar Affiliation: Electrical Eng., Technion Much effort has been devoted to research and development of organic solar cells with significantly less emphasis on organic photodiodes (OPDs). The increased interest in OPDs is partly... Read MoreRead more about: Dark leakage current in organic photodiodes and road to hybrid CMOS imager
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טקס חנוכת הפרס ע”ש דר’ יוסף מרדכי פרל ז”ל
June, 28, 2018 , 14:30הינכם מוזמנים לטקס חנוכת הפרס ע”ש דר’ יוסף מרדכי פרל ז”ל. הפרס ע”ש פרל לסטודנטים מצטיינים בלימודי תארים מתקדמים (תחום תקשורת). הפרסים יוענקו לסטודנטים: עוזי פרג, משתלם לתואר שלישי. ולאלכסנדר בונין, משתלם לתואר שני. במהלך הטקס תועבר הרצאתו של פרופ’... Read MoreRead more about: טקס חנוכת הפרס ע”ש דר’ יוסף מרדכי פרל ז”ל
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משק האנרגיה בעקבות הרפורמה בחברת החשמל: הזדמנויות ואתגרים
June, 27, 2018 , 12:30בשבועות האחרונים אנו שומעים על הסכם חדש בין הממשלה וחברת החשמל בנוגע לרפורמה במשק האנרגיה בישראל. ההרצאה תעסוק בנושאים הבאים: ההיסטוריה של הרפורמה במשק החשמל מתווה הרפורמה הנוכחית: מה השינויים המוצעים? מי הרוויח? מי הפסיד? לאן פנינו מועדות? כיצד צפוי... Read MoreRead more about: משק האנרגיה בעקבות הרפורמה בחברת החשמל: הזדמנויות ואתגרים
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Estimation in low SNR environment and under group action with application to cryo-EM
June, 24, 2018 , 10:30Speaker: Dr. Tamir Bendory Affiliation: Princeton University Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is an imaging technology that is revolutionizing structural biology, enabling reconstruction of molecules at near-atomic resolution. Cryo-EM produces a large number of noisy two-dimensional tomographic projection images of a molecule, taken... Read MoreRead more about: Estimation in low SNR environment and under group action with application to cryo-EM
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טקס הענקת הפרסים מהקרן ע”ש עוז מוזס ז”ל
June, 19, 2018 , 17:00הינכם מוזמנים לטקס הענקת הפרסים מהקרן ע”ש עוז מוזס ז”ל, מיסודם של עדנה ודן מוזס וחב’ אינטל ישראל בע”מ לפרטים נוספים... Read MoreRead more about: טקס הענקת הפרסים מהקרן ע”ש עוז מוזס ז”ל
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Random walks on the Symmetric Group and Representation Theory
June, 12, 2018 , 11:30Probability and Stochastic Processes Seminar Speaker: Doron Puder Affiliation: TAU Aldous’ Spectral gap conjecture, proved in 2009 by Caputo, Liggett and Richthammer, states the following a priori very surprising fact: the spectral gap of a random walk on a finite graph... Read MoreRead more about: Random walks on the Symmetric Group and Representation Theory
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Mean-field fun and exponential random graphs
June, 05, 2018 , 11:30Probability and Stochastic Processes Seminar Speaker: Renan Gross Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science Gibbs distributions are everywhere, whether you’re Ising-modeling a magnet or fitting an exponential random graph to your social network. Alas, explicitly solving Gibbs distributions can sometimes be a... Read MoreRead more about: Mean-field fun and exponential random graphs