The IEEE Membership Committee is soliciting nominations for the Distinguished Lecturer Program.

A postdoc position is available at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, to be supervised by Tobias Koch. The position is funded by the European Research Council and concerns the information-theoretic analysis of low-latency wireless communication systems. The duration of the position is up to 5 years.

A special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is devoted in memory of Solomon W. Golomb for his revolutionary work on shift-register sequences, coding theory, and cryptography as well as their applications to communications.

In memory of Professor Sir David MacKay FRS (1967-2016), Darwin College is seeking to elect a stipendiary Research Fellow. Applications should be submitted by 21 November 2016.

The 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory seeks half-day tutorial proposals, which should provide clear and focused teaching material covering new and emerging topics within the scope of the conference.

This is a report the 2016 IEEE IT Society Summer School held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

Postdoctoral researcher position at Chalmers

Post-doc under supervision of Natasha Devroye.

Ph. D. openings at Iowa State in Prof. Aditya Ramamoorthy's group

ITSoc Newsletter September 2016 issue now online

ITSoc Newsletter September 2016 issue now online

New York University Department of Physics announces open faculty positions in quantum information: http://physics.as.nyu.edu/object/physics.facultypositions

A full PhD scholarship on information theory and index coding at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

The Online Committee is pleased to announce the new ITSOC.org site.

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. This author must be a registered student of an educational institution at the time of paper submission to be eligible.

The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.