Student Committee Report Aylin Yener Penn State Presented
![Instructors • • Rich Baranuik [Padovani Lecturer] Bob Gray Sanjoy Mitter Emre Telatar 9](https://slidetodoc.com/presentation_image/94105b5f680c4ae8db4f24fdc47ee9e5/image-9.jpg "Instructors • • Rich Baranuik [Padovani Lecturer] Bob Gray Sanjoy Mitter Emre Telatar 9")
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Student Committee Report Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the Bo. G meeting, ITA’ 11 February 6, 2011, San Diego, CA
ISIT 2010 Event 1 (Roundtable Research Discussion) June 14, 2010 • Thanks to our student discussion leaders: – – – Viveck Cadambe: Interference Alignment Satashu Goel: Security and Networking Pulkit Grover: Complexity and Energy Yashodhan Kanoria: Game Dynamics on Networks Oliver Kosut: Secrecy Paolo Minero: Capacity Scaling of Ad Hoc Networks Parimal Parag: Networking/Delay Eren Sasoglu: Polar Codes Rajiv Soundararajan: Joint Source Channel Coding Changho Suh: Distributed Storage Ravi Tandon: Feedback for Multi-User Channels Ye Tian: Deterministic Models • Lunch was provided • T-shirts were distributed to students.
ISIT 2010 Event 2 (Panel) June 17, 2010 • Panel discussion: “Recipes for a good talk” • Thanks to our Panelists: – – – Massimo Franceschetti Emina Soljanin Emre Telatar Venu Veeravalli Aaron Wagner • Lunch was provided
ISIT events • Each event was attended by 120 students. • This was the maximum the hotel was able to accommodate. • About 40 students could not get in in the first event. • In order for this not to repeat, we have taken pro-active steps and communicated our concern to future chairs of: • ISIT 2011: we will have a large enough room (lunch included in reg. ) • ISIT 2013 9/26/2020 October 13, 2009 Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer 4
Allerton 2010 • A new event was introduced. • Information Theory Jeopardy! • Categories: “Capacity Regions”, “Shannon Lecturers”, “Codes”, “IT Paper Awards”, and “ISIT Locations”. • Questions were prepared by members of student committee. • About 25 in attendance. • Worth trying again (at ISIT? ), with participation from faculty.
Student Members • A big Thanks to Bobak Nazer for his service who recently started a tenuretrack position in BU. • Student attendance at ISIT etc and our events call for more volunteers. • For a list of members (co-chairs, and event volunteers, see the student committee web page. Call for volunteers: Please encourage your students to participate in the student committee!
Brief Update on the Annual North American School of Information Theory • 2011 School to be at University of Texas, Austin, over the memorial day weekend. • Web site: http: //www. itsoc. org/school 7
Organizing Committee • Chairs: Sriram Vishwanath (UT) and Tie Liu Texas A&M) • Robert Cui, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Henry Pfister (Texas A&M); Elza Erkip (Poly), Aaron Wagner (Cornell) • Web: Matthieu Bloch (Ga. Tech) • “Advisors”: Gerhard Kramer and Aylin Yener 8
Instructors • • Rich Baranuik [Padovani Lecturer] Bob Gray Sanjoy Mitter Emre Telatar 9
Summary and Outlook • • • 2011: Things are on track. Fund raising in progress. Enthusiasm about the School is continuing to spread • Volunteers to organize future schools in North America: Cornell, Banff, Purdue… • New school initiatives in other parts of the world, e. g. the week before ISIT 2011 in Oulu, Finland (Instructors: Gerhard Kramer, Bobak Nazer, Sennur Ulukus, Aylin Yener) • 2011 European Winter School (March); next 2013. 10
