Call for nominations for the Shannon award , Wyner award, Paper award and joint IT/ComSoc paper award

Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu, Professor and iCORE Research Chair in Broadband Wireless Communications at the University of Alberta was selected as Distinguished Visiting Fellow.

Abstract submission deadline for 3S Student Workshop at IEEE WiOpt'11 is extended to February 7, 2011. All students are welcome to participate the poster and elevator pitch sessions, even with their works in progress. Authors will be offered the possibility to have their abstracts listed in IEEE Xplore with IEEE publication status. Please see the CFP below or at http://wcan.ee.psu.edu/webpages/3s_2011/call.htm

CISS 2011 will be held at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 23-25, 2011.

Third CFP for 2011 Wi-OPT: 9th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks to be held May 9-13 @ Princeton, NJ. http://www.wi-opt.org WiOpt 2011 is a IEEE sponsored conference and will feature a Student Paper Award. Note an extended paper submission deadline for January 5th.

The Second Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW), 24-26 March 2011, Sälen, Sweden

Call for nominations for the 2012 IEEE Technical Field Awards

The Fifth International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (IWSDA'2011), Guilin, China, October 10-14, 2011. Manuscript submission deadline: May 20, 2011

The 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia in the scenic Okanagan Valley from Wednesday May 18 to Friday May 20, 2011.

IEEE IT Society Members can vote in the 2010 IEEE Information Theory Society Election.

Quantum Information Processing (QIP) is a rapidly developing field of research spanning both physics and computer science. As the name implies, the field extends information processing (including computing and cryptography) to physical regimes where quantum effects become significant.

University of Alberta Professor and iCORE Chair, Dr. Norman C. Beaulieu awarded 2010 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden Silver Medal "for outstanding contributions in wireless communication theory" by IEEE Canada.