[DMANET] One day meeting: “Private Information Retrieval, Distributed Storage, Network Coding"

There will be a meeting on "Private Information Retrieval, Distributed Storage, and Network Coding" at Royal Holloway University of London on Friday 8th July 2016.

Speakers:

Tuvi Etzion (Technion)
Salim El Rouayheb (Illinois Institute of Technology)
P. Vijay Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Alex Vardy (UC San Diego)

How should we store a large database using several servers? We want to cope with server failure, repair such failures efficiently, and maintain user privacy. There has been exciting progress in this area over the past few years, using techniques from coding theory, set systems, finite field theory and finite geometry. This one-day meeting aims to survey some of these highlights.

See http://www.ma.rhul.ac.uk/OneDayMeeting2016 for a detailed programme.

Registration: All are very welcome. Please email Simon Blackburn (s.blackburn@rhul.ac.uk) to register; registration is free.

The meeting is supported by EPSRC Grant EP/N022114/1 ('Private Information Retrieval with limited server storage: combinatorics and coding theory').

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