Tallinn, Estonia

European School of Information Theory

April 14-18th, 2014The images are courtesy of Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons

Local organizing committee (University of Tartu)• Vitaly Skachek (chair)• Helger Lipmaa (vice chair)• Dominique Unruh • Sven Laur• Juri Lember

• Kairit Shor (project manager in Tartu)• Kerli Kangro (Tallinn University Conference Center)

Advisory committee• Gerhard Kramer• Petar Popovski• Deniz Gunduz• Marcus Greferath (COST Action)• Mario Pavcevic (COST Action)

Scientific Program (emphasis on Security, Coding and Networks) • Venkatesan Guruswami

List error-correction with information-theoretically minimal redundancy

• Camilla HollantiAlgebraic lattices and applications to communications

• Yuval IshaiThe complexity of information-theoretic secure computation

• Yingbin LiangInformation theoretic security and its applications

• Bobak NazerCompute-and-Forward: an explicit link between finite field and Gaussian interference networks

• Ruediger UrbankeSpatial Coupling -- What is it, why does it work, and what are the open challenges?

• 3-hour lectures in the morning• Poster sessions/lectures in the afternoon• Excursion on Wednesday afternoon

Location• Tallinn, Estonia• Sokos Hotel VIRU• Next to the Tallinn Old Town (UNESCO Heritage List) • 5-10 minutes walk from the major touristic attractions

Fund RaisingIEEE ITSoc• Grant of 20,000 USD

COST Action IC1104 on Random Network Coding and Designs • Travel expenses of network-coding-related speakers (Hollanti and

Nazer)• Local organizer support 2,400 EUR (but asked to cover

attendance of chair Greferath and co-chair Pavcevic)• Student travel grant fund of 12,000 EUR (24 scholarships of 500

EUR, can be changed). Only 25 countries-members are eligible.

Estonian Center of Excellence in Computer Science (EXCS)• Travel of up to two invited speakers

Registration and Accommodation

Registration Fees • IEEE ITSoc Member: 230 EUR• Non-member student/post-doc: 270 EUR• Other: 310 EUR(Late registration after Feb. 10th: extra 50 EUR in each category)

Hotel • Single room: 69 EUR pppn• A place in a shared twin room: 39 EUR pppn

Price includes: breakfasts and lunches, coffee breaks, excursion

Expenses• Conference room + equipment + poster stands: 2500-2700

EUR• Invited speaker + foreign organizer travel: 4600 EUR• Invited speaker + organizer rooms: 6500 EUR • Consumables: 2500 EUR (memory sticks, T-shirts, bags,

badges)• Other local expenses: 2000 EUR (local organizer travel,

speaker dinner, unexpected)• Lunches + coffee breaks: ~125 EUR per person• Excursion: 700 EUR

Management of registrations is done by Tallinn University Conference Center (different university)• Their fees: 1200-1500 EUR (estimated)• Credit card charges: 800 EUR (5%)

Other: we plan to cover attendance of 5-10 local students and post-docsRemaining funds: will be returned

Registration so far• 48 students and early-stage researchers• 17 countries

… registration is still open…