A  PhD scholarship is now available  in the field of information theory. This position is aimed to providing a unified framework for the study of  finite-length information theory .

The scholarship is funded by the  European Research Council  and the  Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness  and has a duration of 4 years. Specific  research topics  include (but are not limited to) the finite-length analysis of:

• Joint source-channel coding
• Mismatched decoding
• Multiple-access and broadcast techniques

For further information see 

http://itc.upf.edu/news/phd-information-theory-2013

Interested students are encouraged to  contact  Prof. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas ( [email protected] ).