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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the IEEE Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
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.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The IEEE Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an IEEE Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Conferences
Job list
Open position: Postdoc Fellow in Physical Layer Security for Wireless Communications
One postdoctoral position is available at The Wireless Communications Lab, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The research project is in collaboration with The Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia.
Jan 16, 2012
Open research fellow positions in wireless communications Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Two research fellow positions in wireless communications are available at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Nov 28, 2011
Faculty Position Announcement - University of Toronto
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto invites applications for a faculty position at the Assistant/Associate Professor rank, with a start date of July 1, 2012, in the area of Communication Systems.
Sep 4, 2011
Postdoctoral Opportunities at the University of Melbourne
Up to four postdoctoral positions in wireless communications are available at the University of Melbourne.
Jun 9, 2011
Open faculty position at Telecom ParisTech
Mar 23, 2011
Joint CS/EE Postdoctoral Opportunity at UT Austin
This is a joint postdoctoral position between Pradeep Ravikumar (CS, UT Austin) and Sriram Vishwanath (ECE, UT Austin)
Feb 23, 2011
Postdoctoral Position in Compressive Sensing at the University of Arizona
A Post-doctoral position in compressive sensing is available at the University of Arizona. The researcher will be working on the DARPA Knowledge Enhanced Compressive Measurement (KECoM) project.
Sep 14, 2010
Postdoctoral position in computational biology
A postdoc position at the BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Bioresearch, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Sep 13, 2009
Postdoctoral research fellowship in network coding
Postdoctoral position available, Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jul 3, 2009
Jobs Board
Postdoc Position in Coding for Physical Layer Security
ETIS lab, France (CY Université / ENSEA / CNRS)
A 15 months postdoc position in finite block-length coding for physical layer security is available…
Mar 13, 2024
Post-doc position
University of Maryland College Park
Post-doc in use of LLMs in communications and networking.
Mar 10, 2024
Postdoctoral researcher on semantics of information and goal-oriented communications
Linköping University, Sweden
Postdoctoral researcher on semantics of information and goal-oriented communications, focusing on…
Feb 28, 2024
News
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the Society Newsletter by March 25, 2024.
Mar 3, 2024
Reminder of upcoming deadlines for paper/poster submissions to workshops@ISIT’24
The 03 March deadline for paper submissions to (most) workshops@ISIT is quickly approaching!
Feb 29, 2024
Lloyd Welch passed away at the age of 96
Lloyd Welch, an esteemed mathematician and electrical engineer, whose research career has had a…
Jan 23, 2024
Alexander Barg Awarded 2024 IEEE Hamming Medal
IEEE Information Theory Society congratulates member Alexander Barg for receiving the 2024 IEEE…
Jan 21, 2024
News
Research Fellow Position in Error Control Coding for Future Cellular Networks
A postdoc position in error control coding for future cellular networks
Apr 23, 2019
Call for Papers — Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Dedicated to the Memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein
From Deletion Correction to Graph Reconstruction — This special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is devoted to the memory of Vladimir I. Levenshtein who made seminal contributions to many fields of coding theory and combinatorics.
Apr 23, 2019
Registrations for ISIT 2019
The registrations for ISIT 2019 are now open.
Information are available at: https://2019.ieee-isit.org/ Early registration deadline: April 30th, 2019
Apr 19, 2019
Registrations for ISIT 2019 are now open.
The registrations for ISIT 2019 are now open. Early registration deadline: April 30th, 2019
Apr 8, 2019
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Apr 6, 2019
Research Engineer in the area of Information Theory and Statistics
Research Engineer in the area of Information Theory and Statistics, with application to machine learning and prediction.
Apr 4, 2019
2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop - Deadline extended to April 10, 2019!
IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2019
Visby, Gotland, Sweden - August 25-28, 2019 http://itw2019.org Submission deadline: April 10, 2019
Mar 30, 2019
2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop - Deadline extended to April 10, 2019!
IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2019
Visby, Gotland, Sweden - August 25-28, 2019
http://itw2019.org Submission deadline: April 10, 2019
Mar 20, 2019
Workshop in memory of František Matúš (August 2019)
Th]e workshop will be organized as a part of the conference Prague Stochastics 2019, to be held in August 19–23, 2019, in UTIA, the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague.
Mar 14, 2019
Massey Research & Teaching Award Nomination Deadline is March 15
The deadline for nominations for the James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars is fast approaching - March 15.
Mar 1, 2019
Postdoc and PhD student openings at Chalmers, Sweden
1 Postdoc and 1 PhD student position are open at Chalmers University of Technology Sweden, where information-theoric methods will be used to advance fiber-optic communications
Feb 20, 2019
Simons Institute Symposium on information-theoretic methods for privacy and fairness
A two-day workshop featuring tutorial-style talks on information-theoretic measures for privacy and fairness at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Feb 20, 2019
ISIT 2019 Paper Submission Deadline Extended
The paper submission deadline has been extended to 20-January-2019. The precise time zone is Midnight at the International Date Line.
Jan 10, 2019
Postdoctoral position - Eurecom
Jan 4, 2019
Past meeting
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting -Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BOG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BOG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - June 2021
The second BOG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BOG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Videos on Information Theory
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