November 8, 2004: Prof. Sergio Verdu (Princeton University) "Dicrete Denoising"
March 2, 2005: Olgica Milenkovic (U. Colorado, Boulder) "Constrained and Error-Control Coding for DNA Computers".
April 15, 2005: Prof. Jont B. Allen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) "The Cochlea, Articulation Index and Information Theory in Speech (A Theory of Everything, Almost)"
May 5, 2005: Dr. Martin Wainwright (University of California at Berkeley) "Tree-reweighted Message-passing Algorithms in Graphical Models: Some Theory and Applications"