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The JTG Summer School

The JTG Summer School. in Information Theory, Networks, and Signal Processing. What is JTG?. Joint Telematics Group of IITs (the six well-known ones) and IISc Telematics : Study of control, communication, and computation at a distance

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The JTG Summer School

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  1. The JTG Summer School in Information Theory, Networks, and Signal Processing

  2. What is JTG? • Joint Telematics Group of IITs (the six well-known ones) and IISc • Telematics: Study of control, communication, and computation at a distance • From telema (genitive telematos), study of distance, as in Rajesh’s Random dictionary of the Engreek language • History of JTG • Estd. 1987 to run teacher training and industry training programmes taught by the then very few communications/SP/networking faculty in India • Since 1995 oversees the organisation of the annual National Conference on Communications (NCC) • The conference is held at one of the IITs or IISc (Jan/Feb every year) • Since 2008, JTG has been running a summer school for research students

  3. JTG Summer School Format • Four days, two topics • Two hours lecture + one hour discussion/complements in the morning. Same format in the afternoon • Student research and/or open problem presentations in the discussion sessions • Advanced, INTENSE, rigorous, primarily aimed at research students and young faculty • Material for 2009 - 2013 available on the web • Like two mini-courses (8 lecture hours each)

  4. Past Summer Schools • 2008 (Experimental, Zeroth), IIT Madras • Multiterminal information theory Rajesh Sundaresan • Network coding Andrew Thangaraj and SrikrishnaBhashyam • 2009 (First), IISc Bangalore • New paradigms in processing large data sets Ravi Kannan and AmitDeshpande • Network function computation D.Manjunath • 2010 (Second), IISc Bangalore • Physical layer security Matthieu Bloch • Markov renewal processes and mean-field limits Anurag Kumar • 2011 (Third): IIT Bombay • Statistical recovery problems in high dimensions Martin Wainwright • Optimizing performance of wireless networks PrasannaChaporkar • 2012 (Fourth): IIT Bombay • Games and mechanisms for communication systems Bruce Hajek • Communication complexity JaikumarRadhakrishnan • 2013 (Fifth): IIT Madras (just finished last week) • Random matrix theory and wireless networks Giuseppe Caire • Stochastic geometry for wireless networks SrikanthIyer

  5. JTG Summer School 2010 • Registration: Very cheap (about INR 1000 to pay for foreign speaker travel, about INR 80,000) • Participant profile: 97 registrations • IISc 41 students + 5 faculty (including speaker) • IITs and TIFR 26 + 3 faculty • IIT participants mostly from IITM, IITB. (IITK had 2) • Others 22 • 13 students gave short talks • Sponsors: IISc’s ECE department, DRDO-IISc PME (INR 50,000), DST (INR 75,000), Anurag’s and Rajesh’s project funds (balance, about INR 50,000) • COMSNETS Association offered partial support from 2011 onwards.

  6. JTG Summer School 2013 • Registration: Very cheap (INR 1000 for students, INR 1500 for others) • Participant profile: 107 registrations • 69 students (about 60 from IISc/IITs/TIFR) • 23 faculty (about 10 from IISc/IITs/TIFR) • 15 others (companies, research organizations) • 4 students gave 30-minute talks • Sponsors: • Registration (INR 120,000) • COMSNETS Association (INR 100,000) • Govt agencies: DST (INR 75,000), CSIR (INR 50,000) • Industry: Saankhya Labs (INR 50,000), Qualcomm (INR 50,000), Microsoft Research (INR 50,000), Google (INR 25,000)

  7. What we want from IT Society • Blessing • Money (USD 20,000 of annual support to help us sustain this program) • Visibility • Participation, check it out!

  8. Forecast of Budget (in INR) • Speaker travel: 150,000 • Honoraria: 100,000 • Speaker accommodations: 100,000 • Student accommodations: 200,000 • Food 500,000 • Arrangements, stationery 300,000 • Total: INR 1,250,000 ~ USD 23,000 • Balance will be covered by registrations, local funding agencies

  9. Our plan for the future • Name: can be changed if there is sustained funding support from ITSoc • Round robin schedule • IIT Madras, IISc, IIT Bombay – institutes that seem to send the most participants • Currently sojourn time: 2 years to exploit organisational lessons learned, tap known funding resources (flexible) • New venues could be added after traction (flexible if there is sustained participation from candidate location) • Timing: May/June, depending on anticipated local climate conditions • Topics at the forefront of research in information theory, communications, networking, signal processing, particularly emerging problem areas. • One speaker from India (to reduce travel cost) and one from abroad (flexible) • Organising committee: Chooses venue, topics, speakers • Andrew Thangaraj, Srikrishna Bhashyam (IIT Madras) • Rajesh Sundaresan, Navin Kashyap (IISc) • Vinod Prabhakaran (TIFR Mumbai), Sibiraj Bhaskaran Pillai (IIT Bombay) • Short-list potential speakers for following year at a meeting during the current workshop. Invitations sent out right after. • Advisory group: JTG National Coordinator, IT Society President, Prakash Narayan, B. Sundar Rajan, P. Vijay Kumar • Utter words of wisdom when requested

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