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SUMMARY: Group Testing: Something old\, something new\, something borrowed
  - Dr Nikhil Karamchandani\, IIT Bombay
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CONTACT:Ramji Venkataramanan
DESCRIPTION:*Please note the unusual venue*\n\nThe problem of group testin
 g entails inferring a subset of defective items from a (much larger) popul
 ation\, using as few 'pooled tests' as possible. Each pooled test specifie
 s a subset of the items and produces a binary outcome: 'negative' if all t
 he items selected in the test are non-defective\, and 'positive' otherwise
 . While the original motivation for group testing was medical testing\, it
  has since found application across a wide variety of scenarios including 
 wireless communications\, DNA sequencing\, neighbour discovery\, and netwo
 rk tomography. We review some of the main results in group testing and the
 n introduce a new variation of the problem ('cascaded group testing') wher
 e each test is specified by an ordered subset of items\, and returns the f
 irst defective item in the specified order.\n\n*Bio*: Nikhil Karamchandani
  is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering\,
  IIT Bombay. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrica
 l and Computer Engineering\, University of California at San Diego. He was
  a postdoctoral scholar with the University of California at Los Angeles a
 nd the Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center\, University of Ca
 lifornia at San Diego. His research interests include networks\, informati
 on and coding theory\, and statistical learning.
LOCATION:MR13\, CMS Pavilion E
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