Department of Physics

18115  Information Theory   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS373/ 

Course Content

• Introduction to Information Theory and Error-correcting codes, Parity Check Matrices, Factor Graphs
• Coding as a Phase Transition and Statistical Physics
• LDPC: Marginalization and Sum-Product Equations
• Coding: Belief Propagation and Density Evolution for BEC, BSC, AWGN
• Applications and Extensions: Compressive Sensing using Approximate Message Passing and Spatial Coupling.