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2011 School of Information Theory

2011 School of Information Theory. Sriram Vishwanath and Tie Liu. Organizing Committee. General Chairs: Tie Liu, Sriram Vishwanath Program Chairs: Robert Cui, Elza Erkip , Aaron Wagner Local Arrangements: Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry Pfister Publicity and Web: Matthieu Bloch

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2011 School of Information Theory

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  1. 2011 School of Information Theory SriramVishwanathand Tie Liu

  2. Organizing Committee • General Chairs: Tie Liu, Sriram Vishwanath • Program Chairs: Robert Cui, ElzaErkip, Aaron Wagner • Local Arrangements: Jean-Francois Chamberland, Henry Pfister • Publicity and Web: Matthieu Bloch • Advisors: Gerhard Kramer, AylinYener

  3. Logistics • 2011 School to be held in Austin on UT Austin campus • Co-organized by Texas A&M and UT Austin • Dates: May 27-30th 2011 (Memorial day weekend) • Reasons: Only one day (Friday) overlaps with working day • Austin turns into an oven June-Sept • Applications due: March 12th 2011 • Decisions: March 20th 2011 • Registration by April 15th 2011 • Website: http://www.itsoc.org/2011-school-of-information-theory

  4. 2010 School • At USC from August 5-8, 2010 • http://www.itsoc.org/school • Six 2-hour lecturers over 3½ days by 6 speakers

  5. Format in 2011 • We plan to have 5 speakers: • 2 long (3 hour lectures): Core IT and Coding • 3 medium (2 hour lectures): Applications and Interdisciplinary • Padovani Lecturer: Rich BaraniukOther Speakers: Bob Gray, SanjoyMitter, EmreTelatar • Last invitation: Ingrid Daubechies (still pending, your help appreciated) • School in the process of being registered with IEEE as a conference (approval awaiting today’s meeting outcome) • UT dorm has no contract: • Dorms this year will act like hotel registration: • Students register with dorm and provide credit card backup. • If no show (15-day cancellation), student is fined. • Students post-billed once checkout. • Big advantage: We never deal with student money. Dorm bill adjustment will take care of any leftover money.

  6. Fundraising • We currently have 10 K from UT and A&M (5K each) • In previous years: • 2008: $39k (ITSOC, DARPA, Univ.; 101 students) • 2009: $58K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 141 students) • 2010: $61K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 178 students) • We have approached NSF and ARO • We plan to approach companies as well: NI, Huawei, Motorola

  7. Request for Funds • We respectfully ask for the previous years’ allocation from the ITSOC • Motion: that the ITSOC support the 2011 School of Information Theory with a grant of $20k

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