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2008 North American School of Information Theory

2008 North American School of Information Theory
The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society organized the first North American School on Information Theory. The 2008 event, co-organized by Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer, was recently held at University Park Campus, Penn State University.
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Motivation and Background

The aim of the was to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and senior researchers working on Information Theory in an interactive campus environment. We followed the tradition of the European Winter School on Coding and Information Theory and brought it to North America!

About the School

The First Annual School of Information Theory was held Sunday, June 1, to Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the University Park Campus, , . The featured . The instructors at the First School of Information Theory were:

, University of Virginia

, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

, University of California Berkeley

The school also featured a panel discussion on June 4 and the on June 5 by of Princeton University. A was held the evening of June 4.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working on problems of information theory in a broad sense participated in the school and presented their work in the form of .

The First Annual School was dedicated to the memory of .

Videos of the lectures are available on the ITSOC YouTube channel

  • Muriel Médard: Network Coding: an Introduction [][][][]
  • David Tse: Information Theory of Wireless Networks [][][][]
  • Toby Berger: "Living Information Theory" Relived [][][]
  • : Toby Berger, David Tse, Aylin Yener, Muriel Médard, Gerhard Kramer
  • Vince Poor:

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support from the following sponsors of the First Annual School of Information Theory:

  • , Penn State University
  • , Penn State University
  • , Princeton University

Organizers


Overall Organization
Aylin Yener ( [email protected] )
Gerhard Kramer ( [email protected] )

Applications
Ivana Maric ( [email protected] )
Sennur Ulukus ( [email protected] )

Web and Publicity
J. Nicholas Laneman ( [email protected] )
Lalitha Sankar ( [email protected] )
Brooke Shrader ( [email protected] )

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Event location
University Park Campus, Penn State University
Event type
In-Person