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School Overview
The IEEE Information Theory Society is organizing an Annual School on Information Theory. This is the website for the Inaugural School held in June 1-5 2008. This event, co-organized by Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer, was held at University Park Campus, Penn State University. Click on the tabs above for more information about this event. The Second Annual North American School of Information Theory chaired by Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer will be held at Northwestern University, August 10-13, 2009.
FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS, PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL 2009 SCHOOL OF INFORMATION THEORY WEBSITE AT
http://www.itsoc.org/people/committees/student/2009-school-of-it
2008 School of Information Theory
Motivation and Background
The aim of the School of Information Theory is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and senior researchers working on Information Theory in an interactive campus environment. We follow the tradition of the European Winter School on Coding and Information Theory and bring it to North America!
About the School
The First Annual School of Information Theory was held Sunday, June 1, to Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the University Park Campus, Penn State University, State College, PA. The school featured lectures on June 2, 3 and 4. The instructors at the First School of Information Theory were:
Prof. Toby Berger, University of Virginia
Prof. Muriel Medard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prof. David Tse, University of California Berkeley
The school also featured a panel discussion on June 4 and the keynote lecture on June 5 by Prof . H. Vincent Poor of Princeton University. A banquet dinner was held the evening of June 4.
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working on problems of information theory in a broad sense participated in the school and presented their work in the form of short talks or posters.
The First Annual School was dedicated to the memory of Sergio Servetto.
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support from the following sponsors of the First Annual School of Information Theory:
- DARPA
- Electrical Engineering Department, Penn State University
- IEEE Information Theory Society
- Networking and Security Research Center, Penn State University
- School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
Organizers
Overall Organization
Aylin Yener (yener@ee.psu.edu)
Gerhard Kramer (gkr@bell-labs.com)
Applications
Ivana Maric (ivanam@wsl.stanford.edu)
Sennur Ulukus (ulukus@umd.edu)
Web and Publicity
J. Nicholas Laneman (jlaneman@nd.edu)
Lalitha Sankar (lalitha@princeton.edu)
Brooke Shrader (bshrader@umd.edu)
Lecture videos are available!
