Tie Liu amp Sriram Vishwanath On UT Austin campus Memorial day weekend Organizing Committee General Chairs Tie Liu and Sriram Vishwanath Program Chairs Robert Cui Elza Erkip Aaron Wagner ID: 789973
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Slide1
2011 School of Information Theory
Tie Liu &
Sriram
Vishwanath
Slide2On UT Austin campus
Memorial day weekend
Slide3Slide4Organizing Committee
General Chairs: Tie Liu and 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 and
Aylin
Yener
Slide55
Program Overview
May 27
Friday
May 28
Saturday
May 29
Sunday
May 30
Monday
Opening remarks
2X90min Lectures Emre Telatar2X60min Lectures Sanjoy Mitter2X90min Lectures Emina SoljaninStudent Presentations1:30-3:30pm2X90min Lectures Robert GrayPadovani LectureRich BaraniukRudi and Alon DayThe IT Wiki9am-5 pmStudent Presentations4-6 pmPool Party! Gregory Gym 6:45 pmStudent Presentations4-6 pmGroup Photo+ Movie Night! 6:45 pmStudent Presentations4-6 pmBowling Night! Texas Underground 6:45 pmSchool Ended at 5 pm
Lecture materials
available
online at:
www.itsoc.org/school
Slide6School Numbers
Total attendees = 122 (students +
postdocs
)
Total cancellations = 14 (mainly visa issues)
2010 we had 178 attendees
Bottom Line
L
ate June – August better time for more attendees
But we should consider limiting registration to curb costs and to keep quality high
Disadvantage
AdvantageFewer people benefittedBudget more reasonableEasier logisticsBetter student-teacher ratio
Slide7Budget
IEEE IT Society = 25K
Army Research Office (ARO) = 15K
Texas A&M (5k), UT Austin
(
5K), Rice (2K), Princeton (0.5K)
NSF Science of Information Center = 2.6K
Total = 55K
We were able to support the School
(including
ITWiki
day) thanks to these generous sponsors
Slide8More Thank you’s!
Sponsors:
ITSoc
BoG
, Bob
Ulman
&
Ananthram
Swami, Brent Ladd (
SoI
center), Costas Georghiades, Behnaam Aazhang, Vince Poor, Jeff AndrewsThe IT school organizing committeeVolunteers: Jubin Jose, Rajiv Soundararajan, Harpreet Dhillon, Abhik Das, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Hongbo Si, Zrinka Pulij, Aneesh Reddy
Slide9Notes
Difference #1: IT school in May
Difference #2:
S
tudents provided credit card for dorm
Charged roughly 3 weeks prior to event
Many
fewer cancellations than previous years
Much easier on the staff
Difference #3: Staff support minimal
during
eventBad idea. Critical to have building and custodial staff present.