E2 201 : Information Theory

Instructor

Rajesh Sundaresan

Lecture Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays: 14:00 - 15:30 hrs
First class: Thursday 14:00 hrs, 02 January 2025, MP20

Location

MP20, Microelectronics and Photonics Building of the ECE Department

Office Hours and Tutorial Sessions

Office hour: Wednesdays 17:00 - 18:30 hrs
Location: MP20

Tutorials: Saturdays : 14:00 - 15:30 hrs handled by TAs
Location: MP20

Teaching Assistants

• E Deepthi
  
• PP Venkata Narasimha
  
• Prachi Mishra (tentative)
  
• Tejashree S (tentative)
  

Course syllabus

Entropy, mutual information, data compression, channel capacity, differential entropy, Gaussian channel, other topics as decided by the instructor.

Course Grade

• 25/100 : Mid-term 1 (1.5 hours) Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 hrs
  
• 25/100 : Mid-term 2 (1.5 hours) Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30 hrs
  
• 50/100 : Final (3 hours) TBA, as per SCC announcement
  

Tutorials

• Problem Set 1
• Problem Set 2

Past Offering Homeworks

• Problem Set 3
• Problem Set 4
• Problem Set 5
• Problem Set 6
• Problem Set 7
• Problem Set 8
• Problem Set 9

Reference Texts

• Cover, T.M., and Thomas J.A., Elements of Information Theory, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2006.