In April 2024, the first edition of the Munich Workshop on Shannon Coding Techniques (MSCT) was held at the Institute for Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The workshop offered a variety of interesting talks from short-blocklength coding, LDPC and polar codes, coded modulation and probabilistic shaping, and decoding algorithms. The workshop had over 90 attendees from both industry and academia, including PhD students, senior researchers and industry professionals. MSCT was organized by Diego Lentner, Constantin Runge, Thomas Wiegart, Gianluigi Liva, and Gerhard Kramer.
The technical program consisted of four keynotes, 15 invited talks, and 27 research posters. The keynotes were given by Erdal Arıkan (Bilkent University), Lara Dolecek (UCLA), Rüdiger Urbanke (EPFL), Rick Wesel (UCLA). Invited talks were contributed by Georg Böcherer (Huawei), Giuseppe Caire (TU Berlin), Alexandre Graell i Amat (Chalmers), Yunus Can Gültekin (TU/e), Michael Lentmaier (LTH), David G. M. Mitchell (NMSU), Uzi Pereg (Technion), Tom Richardson (Qualcomm), Anne Savard (IMT Nord Europe), Laurent Schmalen (KIT), Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Technion), Ido Tal (Technion), Stephan ten Brink (University of Stuttgart), Metodi Plamenov Yankov (DTU).
The social program included lunches, extensive coffee breaks with sweets and the traditional well-esteemed Italian coffee prepared by ICE baristas, and a Bavarian dinner at Augustiner Stammhaus.
The workshop organizers like to thank all speakers for their inspiring talks, all poster presenters, and all participants for a vivid atmosphere.
We further thank Christoph Hofmeister and all PhD students at the Institute for Communications Engineering that helped with coffee, food, and logistics.
The program, presentation slides, and photos are available at our web page
