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