由IEEE Communications Society组织的"Distinguished Lecturers Tours"活动，邀请到信息论和无线通信领域的著名学者--Sergio Verdu博士与IEEE亚太地区的 Chapter进行学术交流。
Verdu博士此次在北京将与本月14、15日在清华大学做两个精彩的学术报告，具体时间、地点和报告主题见下。欢迎届时参加！
（本次活动由清华大学IEEE学生分会协办）
报告1：
主题：Discrete Denoising
主讲：Dr. Sergio Verdu
时间：12月14日 10:30 a.m.
地点：清华大学信息科学技术大楼（FIT大楼）1-315房间
联系人：牛志升教授
Abstract:
In this talk I will give an overview of the state of the art in communication theory and the research areas likely to influence future communication systems design.
报告2：
主题：Physical-Layer Communication Research: The Road Ahead
主讲：Dr. Sergio Verdu
时间：12月15日 10:30 a.m.
地点：清华大学信息科学技术大楼（FIT大楼）1-315房间
联系人：牛志升教授
Abstract:
Information Theory, Channel Coding Theory, Signal Processing, and Data Compression are the prime movers in physical-layer communications research and I will review some of the recent advances and challenges ahead.
Biography:
Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.
Sergio Verdú was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on August 15,1958. He received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Conducted at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, his doctoral research pioneered the field of Multiuser Detection.
Sergio Verdú was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the National University Prize of Spain, an IBM Faculty Development Award, the Rheinstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, a Princeton Engineering Council Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.
In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book "Multiuser Detection". His papers have received several awards: the D. Fink Paper Award from the IEEE, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, a Golden Jubilee Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society, the 2000 Paper Award from the Japan Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, and the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award from the IEEE Communications Society
Sergio Verdú has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1993 for "contributions to multiuser communications and to information theory." He served as an elected member of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors in 1989-1999, and was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theor
y.
He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the University of Tokyo. In 1998 he was Visiting Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley, CA and in 2002 he held the Hewlett-Packard Visiting Research Professorship at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA. He is a member of the Technion Center for Communication and Information Technology, and the Technical Advisory Board of Flarion Technologies.
