2011 School of Information

TheorySriram Vishwanath and Tie Liu

Organizing Committee

General Chairs: Tie Liu, Sriram Vishwanath

Program Chairs: Robert Cui, Elza Erkip, Aaron Wagner

Local Arrangements: Jean-Francois Chamberland, Henry Pfister

Publicity and Web: Matthieu Bloch

Advisors: Gerhard Kramer, Aylin Yener

Logistics2011 School to be held in Austin on UT Austin campus

Co-organized by Texas A&M and UT Austin

Dates: May 27-30th 2011 (Memorial day weekend)Reasons: Only one day (Friday) overlaps with working day

Austin turns into an oven June-Sept

Applications due: March 12th 2011

Decisions: March 20th 2011

Registration by April 15th 2011

Website: http://www.itsoc.org/2011-school-of-information-theory

2010 SchoolAt USC from August 5-8, 2010

http://www.itsoc.org/school

Six 2-hour lecturers over 3½ days by 6 speakers

Format in 2011We plan to have 5 speakers:

2 long (3 hour lectures): Core IT and Coding

3 medium (2 hour lectures): Applications and Interdisciplinary

Padovani Lecturer: Rich BaraniukOther Speakers: Bob Gray, Sanjoy Mitter, Emre Telatar

Last invitation: Ingrid Daubechies (still pending, your help appreciated)

School in the process of being registered with IEEE as a conference (approval awaiting today’s meeting outcome)

UT dorm has no contract:Dorms this year will act like hotel registration:

Students register with dorm and provide credit card backup.

If no show (15-day cancellation), student is fined.

Students post-billed once checkout.

Big advantage: We never deal with student money. Dorm bill adjustment will take care of any leftover money.

FundraisingWe currently have 10 K from UT and A&M (5K each)

In previous years:2008: $39k (ITSOC, DARPA, Univ.; 101 students)

2009: $58K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 141 students)

2010: $61K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 178 students)

We have approached NSF and ARO

We plan to approach companies as well: NI, Huawei, Motorola

Request for FundsWe respectfully ask for the previous years’ allocation from the ITSOC

Motion: that the ITSOC support the 2011 School of Information Theory with a grant of $20k