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34290 Information Theory
Danish title: Informationsteori
Language:  English    ECTS-creditpoints:  5   
Type:  course at phd level, open university
Program:  Electrical Engineering
Class schedule:   efter aftale med læreren
Exam schedule:   No exam
Scope and form:  Lectures, seminars, presentations by participants.
Evaluation:  Approval of coursework/reports
Examination:  Pass/fail
Aim:  To allow Ph.D. students to use methods from information theory in their research.
Contents:  The course covers the fundamental results in information theory:
Entropies for various classes of sources, channel capacity and coding theorems for information channels, coding theorems for data compression. Some recent results will be selected depending on the interests of the participants.
Remarks:  The course may be arranged in cooperation with another university.

The course is also offered in the Ph.D. programme in Mathematics.
Contact:  Jørn Justesen, building 371, (+45) 4525 3614, jju@com.dtu.dk
Department: 034 Research Center COM
Signup:  Pe instituttet/At the department
Signup deadline:  jan 15 2002
Updated:  17-05-2001