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SUMMARY:Coding for High-Speed Optical Communications: Are Spatially Couple
 d Codes a Viable Solution?"
DTSTART:20161109T111500
DTEND:20161109T121500
DTSTAMP:20260407T043158Z
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Laurent Schmalen Laurent Schmalen is a member of technical
  staff in Bell Labs’ high-speed systems\, signals and processing group w
 ithin the IP transport program\, Bell Labs\, Alcatel-Lucent. Dr. Schmalen 
 received both his Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering and informat
 ion technology and his Dr.-Ing. degree from the RWTH Aachen University of 
 Technology\, Germany in 2005 and 2011\, respectively. His research interes
 ts include forward error correction\, modulation formats and information t
 heory for future optical networks as well as joint source-channel coding. 
 He is a two-time recipient of the Friedrich-Wilhelm award\, and received t
 he E-Plus award for his Ph.D. thesis. He furthermore received the best pap
 er award of the 2010 ITG Speech Communication Conference\, the 2013 best s
 tudent paper award at the IEEE Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) workshop a
 nd the 2014 IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer Award. 
 Since 2014\, Dr. Schmalen also serves as guest lecturer at the University 
 of Stuttgart.\n
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