IZS 2026 Conference Program

Wednesday, February 25

Thursday, February 26

Friday, February 27

All talks are 20 min.

Recent-Results Posters

Keynote Lecture (Wednesday 08:20 – 09:20)

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  Jonas Peters (ETH Zurich)

Session 1: Coding Theory (Wednesday 09:50 – 11:30)
Invited Session by Joachim Rosenthal (University of Zurich)

• How close are we to Solving Code Equivalence?
  Violetta Weger
• Coding against Correlated Synchronization Errors
  Joao Ribeiro
• Exact Repair Schemes for Erasure Recovery in Evaluation Codes
  Gretchen Matthews
• LM Steganography
  Ryan Gabrys
• The Coded Coupons Collector’s Problem
  Daniella Bar Lev

Session 2: Capacity and Error Rate (Wednesday 13:20 – 15:00)

• Achievable Rates for the Gaussian Gilbert-Elliott Channel
  Yutong Han, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Information Density of DNA Storage in the Short Molecule Regime
  Ran Tamir, Nir Weinberger, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• The Capacity of Information-Unstable Channels with Rate-Limited Help at the Decoder
  Sergey Loyka, Charalambos D. Charalambous
• Two-Class Joint Source-Channel Coding: Expurgated Exponents with i.i.d. Distributions
  Seyed AmirPouya Moeini, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• On the Error Rate of Binary BCH Codes under Error-and-erasure Decoding
  Sisi Miao, Jonathan Mandelbaum, Holger Jäkel, Laurent Schmalen

Session 3: Topics in Network Information Theory (Wednesday 15:30 – 16:50)
Invited Session by Yossef Steinberg (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

• Summary of Recent Results on the Gaussian Z-interference Channel
  Chandra Nair
• Byzantine Distributed Function Computation
  Vinod Prabhakaran
• Cost Constraints Revisited
  Aaron Wagner
• Joint Source-Channel Coding Under a Covertness Constraint
  Michèle Wigger

Session 4: Topics in Networks and Scheduling (Wednesday 17:00 – 17:40)

• Joint Scheduling and Multiflow Maximization in Wireless Networks
  Yanxiao Liu, Shenghao Yang, Cheuk Ting Li
• On the Role of Early-Termination for Age of Information in Tree-Based Random Access Protocols
  Andrea Munari, Čedomir Stefanović

Keynote Lecture (Thursday 08:20 – 09:20)

• Advances on the Shannon Capacity of Graphs
  Igal Sason (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

Session 5: Source Coding and Entropy (Thursday 09:50 – 11:30)

• Single-shot lossy compression: mutual information bounds
  Victoria Kostina
• Source Coding with Side Information: A Dual-Domain Expurgated Error Exponent
  Mehdi Dabirnia, Hamdi Joudeh, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas
• Universal Class-Based Block Source Coding for Discrete Memoryless Sources
  Mehdi Dabirnia, Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, Alfonso Martinez
• A complete characterisation of conditional entropy
  Roberto Rubboli, Erkka Haapasalo, Marco Tomamichel
• The entropy power inequality without assumptions: Equality and stability
  L. Gavalakis, I. Kontoyiannis

Session 6: Classical and Quantum Communication (Thursday 13:20 – 15:00)

• Precoded Polar Product Decoder Based on Soft-Output SCL Decoding and Maximization of Generalized Mutual Information
  Nicolás Alvarez Prado, Andreas Straßhofer
• Belief Propagation Decoding of Tensor-Based Modulation for Unsourced Random Access
  Sweta Suresh, Maxime Guillaud
• An Extension of Enumerative Sphere Shaping for Arbitrary Channel Input Distributions
  Frederik Ritter, Andrej Rode, Laurent Schmalen
• Coset Shaping for Coded Modulation
  Irina Bocharova, Maiara F. Bollauf, Boris Kudryashov
• Classical Feedback in a Quantum Network
  Elina Levi, Uzi Pereg

Session 7: From Theory to Wireless (FTW) (Thursday 15:30 – 16:50)
Invited Session by Jossy Sayir (University of Cambridge)

• The Toy Universes of Multiuser Communications
  Ralf Müller
• Is massive uncoordinated random access practical?
  Maxime Guillaud
• 20 Years Later: What We Got Right (and Wrong) About Wireless
  Mérouane Debbah
• Teaching freshers information theory: Shannon's theorem for linear codes on the BEC
  Jossy Sayir

Keynote Lecture (Friday 08:20 – 09:20)

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  Pascal Vontobel (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Session 8: Molecular and Biological Information Theory (Friday 09:50 – 11:30)
Invited Session by Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada)

• The Philosophy and Science of Biological Information Theory: A Brief Overview and Recent Results
  Andrew Eckford
• When Equilibrium Falls Silent: Nonequilibrium as the Essence of Molecular Communication
  Nunzio Tuccitto
• Limits of Information Flow Between Classically Interacting Particles
  Chris Rose
• Information Processing in Biochemical Networks
  Pieter Rein ten Wolde
• Bits and Pieces Underlying Living Systems: On Subjective Information and Beyond
  Massimiliano Pierobon

Session 9: Physically-Consistent Communication Theory (Friday 13:20 – 14:40)
Invited Session by Christoph Studer (ETH Zurich)

• Multiantenna Systems and Circuit Theory
  Josef A. Nossek and Michael Joham
• Over-the-air Electromagnetic Nonlinear Signal Processing
  Mattia Fabiani, Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Giulia Torcolacci, George Alexandropoulos, Davide Dardari
• Microwave Linear Analog Computer for Communications and Signal Processing
  Matteo Nerini and Bruno Clerckx
• A Sampling Theorem for Electromagnetic Far-Field Models
  Torben Kölle, Alexander Stutz-Tirri, Christoph Studer

Session 10: Various Topics in Information Theory (Friday 15:10 – 16:30)

• A Glimpse at Covert Portfolios
  Ahmet Batuhan Sancak, Robert Graczyk, Nicolas Le Gouic, Stefan M. Moser
• Universal Outlier Hypothesis Testing via Mean- and Median-Based Tests
  Berhard C. Geiger, Tobias Koch, Josipa Mihaljević, Maximilian Toller
• Quaternionic MMSE Estimation and Iterative Algorithms for Quaternionic Compressed Sensing
  Robert F.H. Fischer, Elena Sterk
• New Achievability Schemes for Distributed Computing of Linearly Separable Functions
  Elizabath Peter, K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri, Derya Malak, Petros Elia

Recent-Result Posters

The posters will be on display throughout the day, with the authors available for discussion during the morning and afternoon coffee breaks.

The program will be announced at the end of January 2026.

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