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2010 North American School of Information Theory

2010 North American School of Information Theory
The 2010 North American School of Information Theory was held Thursday, August 5, to Sunday, August 8, 2010, at USC in Los Angeles.
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NASIT 2010 Participants

The school offered graduate students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to learn from leading experts in information theory through short courses and talks as well as the chance to present their own work.

This year's lecturers wereÌý , , , , , and . Jack Wolf will be the second Padovani Lecturer of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society and will give his lecture at the School. The Padovani Lecture is sponsored by a generous gift of Roberto Padovani.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in North America working on problems of information theory in a broad sense were encouraged to apply with the title and a short (less than 250 words) abstract of a poster they would like to present.

The application deadline for the school wasÌý April 30 2010 and notifications were sent by early June 2010.

Videos of the lectures are available on the ITSOC YouTube Channel.

  • Jack Wolf: Can An Information Theorist Be Happy in a Center for Information Storage? [][]
  • Sergio Verdú: Reading Shannon [][]
  • Ruediger Urbanke: Approcahing Shannon [][]
  • Alon Orlitsky: Probability Estimation Over Large Alphabets [][]
  • Andrea Goldsmith: Seeking Shannon Capacity of Wireless Channels and Networks [][]
  • Emmanuel Candés: Information Theory of Data Matrices: Recovery from Incomplete and Corrupted Entries [][Part 2]

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society is the main sponsor of the 2008-2010 Schools. We are grateful to the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their continuing support of these events. Funding for the 2010 School has also been provided by the USC Ming Hsieh Institute, USC Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University - Master of Science in Information Technology Program, Rice University - Center for Multimedia Communication, Texas A&M University - ECE Department, Penn State - Networking and Security Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin - Wireless Networking and Communications Group, University of Notre Dame, and Princeton University. Thank you all!

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General Chairs

Aylin Yener

Gerhard Kramer

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Program and Applications

Michelle Effros

Tracey Ho

LocalÌý Arrangements

Alex Dimakis

Michael Neely

Treasurer

Sriram Vishwanath

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Web

Matthieu Bloch

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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA