Past Events
10-13 Aug, 2015
UC San Diego
2015 North American School of Information Theory

The School of Information Theory will bring together over 100 graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and leading researchers for four action-packed days of learning, stimulating discussions, professional networking and fun activities, all on the beautiful campus of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and in the nearby beach town of La Jolla.

27-29 Jul, 2015
Duke University, Durham, NC
Workshop on Sensing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data

The fifth workshop on Sensing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data (SAHD 2015) will be hosted by Duke University on July 27-29, 2015. All attendees are invited to present original research.
The sensing and analysis of high-dimensional data is a multidisciplinary research area that includes compressed sensing, high dimensional statistics, and machine learning. This workshop will bring together world-class researchers working in this area from the fields of mathematics, statistics, engineering, and computer science.

20-24 Jul, 2015
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
7th Summer School on Signal Processing, Communications, and Networks

The 7th Summer School on Signal Processing, Communications, and Networks Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore July 20-23, 2015

15-20 Jun, 2015
Hong Kong
2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

2015 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

14-19 Jun, 2015
Hong Kong
IEEE ISIT 2015 International Symposium on Information Theory: CALL FOR PAPERS (Now accepting submissions!)

IEEE ISIT 2015 International Symposium on Information Theory: CALL FOR PAPERS (Now accepting submissions!) http://www.isit2015.org/
June 14-19, 2015, Hong Kong

Jun 17, 2015
ISIT, Hongkong, Room S228
ITSoc outrech event at ISIT: "99 Biggest Career Mistakes and How to Avoid Them"

Tuesday, 6:30-7:15pm, room S228: Come and learn about how to avoid mistakes and pitfalls in your career from our panelists Alex Dimakis, Elza Erkip, Madhu Sudan, Ruediger Urbanke and our moderator Tara Javidi.
After that, relax in our traditional mentoring get-together reception, which is open to everyone interested in the IT Society mentoring program (from 7:15pm on in the same room).

Jun 16, 2015
Conference center room S429, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (ISIT venue)
WITHITS Event: "Best of " Edition

Come play a game: chat, laugh, and compete with friends for answers to the “best of” and “worst of” academia, industry, information theory, and life. Monday June 15, 2015, 6:45pm. Conference center room S429, with a likely dinner outing afterwards.

Jun 08, 2015
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Ss Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Prof. Giuseppe Caire: Massive MIMO with structured channels

Distinguished Lecturer Programme of IEEE Information Theory Society

06-08 May, 2015
Tehran, Iran
2015 Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory

The 3rd Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) will take place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran on Wednesday May 6th and Thursday May 7th, 2015.

Apr 26, 2015-May 02, 2015
Jerusalem, Israel
2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshops (ITW), Jerusalem

The 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshops will be held April 26 to May 1, 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel

20-24 Apr, 2015
Zandvoort, The Netherlands
2015 European School of Information Theory (ESIT 2015)

2015 European School of Information Theory (ESIT 2015)

08-10 Apr, 2015
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville Tennesee
Information and Entropy in Biological Systems Workshop

Ever since Shannon initiated research on information theory in 1948, there have been hopes that the concept of information could serve as a tool to help systematize and unify work in biology. The link between information and entropy was noted very early on, and it suggested that a full thermodynamic understanding of biology would naturally involve the information processing and storage that are characteristic of living organisms. However, the subject is full of conceptual pitfalls for the unwary, and progress has been slower than initially expected. Premature attempts at ‘grand syntheses’ have often misfired. But applications of information theory and entropy to specific highly focused topics in biology have been increasingly successful, such as:
• the maximum entropy principle in ecology,
• Shannon and Rényi entropies as measures of biodiversity,
• information theory in evolutionary game theory,
• information and the thermodynamics of individual cells.
Because they work in diverse fields, researchers in these specific topics have had little opportunity to trade insights and take stock of the progress so far. The aim of the workshop is to do just this.

Mar 24, 2015-Apr 01, 2015
USC, Los Angeles
Andrew J. Viterbi Distinguished Lecture in Communication : H. Vincent Poor

Prof. H. Vincent Poor will give the Viterbi Keynote Lecture at USC this March. The lecture will be webcast for those interested in participating remotely.
Links are given below.

Feb 01, 2015
La Jolla Shores Hotel, San Diego, CA
Algorithms, Radio, and Coding Workshop

The Algorithms, Radio, and Coding Workshop in honor of Prof. Robert Calderbank's 60th birthday will be held in La Jolla, CA on January 31, 2015 and February 1st, 2015. This is the weekend before the Information Theory and Applcations (ITA) workshop in La Jolla, CA

19-31 Jan, 2015
Campinas, Brazil
SP Coding and Information School

SPCodingSchool is a two week long school on coding and Information Theory, to be held in Brazil in January 2013. Leading researchers in the area will give both introductory courses (during the first week) and advanced courses (in the second one). The introductory courses are aimed to students that have consistent mathematical background but not necessarily acquainted with Coding and Information Theory.
Up to 90 selected students will be fully supported (flight ticket plus generous expenses) through a grant given by Fapesp, the Science Foundation of the State of São Paulo.

03-05 Dec, 2014
Atlanta, Georgia
GlobalSIP 2014: IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing

The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. It is made up of a series of symposia and workshops. GlobalSIP 2014 will focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes.

27-28 Nov, 2014
University of Twente
Fifth Van der Meulen Seminar

Fifth Van der Meulen Seminar: Data science at the intersection of information theory, statistics, and machine learning