Aylin Yener Penn State Presented at the BoG meeting ITA11 February 6 2011 San Diego CA ISIT 2010 Event 1 Roundtable Research Discussion June 14 2010 Thanks to our student discussion leaders ID: 796206
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Student Committee Report
Aylin Yener, Penn StatePresented at the BoG meeting, ITA’11February 6, 2011, San Diego, CA
Slide2ISIT 2010 Event 1 (Roundtable Research Discussion) June 14, 2010
Thanks to our student discussion leaders:Viveck Cadambe: Interference AlignmentSatashu Goel: Security and NetworkingPulkit Grover: Complexity and EnergyYashodhan 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.
Slide3ISIT 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
Slide4ISIT eventsEach 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 2/6/2011October 13, 2009Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer
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Slide5Allerton 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.
Slide6Student Members
A big Thanks to Bobak Nazer for his service who recently started a tenure-track position in BU. Student attendance at ISIT etc and our events call for more volunteers.For a list of members (co-chairs, andevent volunteers, see the student committee web page. Call for volunteers: Please encourage your
students to participate in the student committee!
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7Brief 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
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8Organizing CommitteeChairs: 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 (
GaTech
)
“Advisors”: Gerhard Kramer and
Aylin Yener
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9InstructorsRich Baranuik
[
Padovani
Lecturer]
Bob Gray
Sanjoy
Mitter
Emre
Telatar
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10Summary 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.