The numbers in brackets refer to
the corresponding sections in the NIT textbook.
Monday, January 7: Organizational meeting
Wednesday, January 9: Lecture #1
Information measures
Monday, January 14: Lecture #2
Lossless compression
Wednesday, January 16: Lecture #3
Point-to-point communication
Monday, January 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (no lecture)
Wednesday, January 23: Lecture #4
Distributed lossless compression [10.1–10.5]
Multiple access channels [4.1, 4.2, 4.4]
Monday, January 28: Lecture #5
Multiple access channels [4.5, 4.6, 4.7]
Degraded broadcast channels [5.1, 5.2–5.7]
Wednesday, January 30: Lecture #6
General broadcast channels [8.3]
Gray–Wyner system
Monday, February 4: Lecture #7
Interference channels [6.1–6.7]
Wednesday, February 6: Lecture #8
Cloud radio access networks
Monday, February 11: ITA Workshop
Wednesday, February 13: ITA Workshop
Monday, February 18: Presidents’ Day (no lecture)
Wednesday, February 20: Lecture #9
Randomness generation
Monday, February 25: Lecture #10
Channel simulation
Distributed randomness generation
Wednesday, February 27: Lecture #11
Index coding
Network coding
Distributed storage coding
Monday, March 4: Lecture #12
Generalized data processing inequality
Wednesday, March 6: Lecture #13
Lossy compression
Information bottleneck theory
Monday, March 11: Lecture #14
Student presentations
Wednesday, March 13: Lecture #15
Student presentations