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This report provides an update on the events and activities of the 2010 North American School of Information Theory, including student committee updates, event details, and logistics. It also includes information about the attendance and fundraising efforts for the school.
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Student Committee Report and Update on the 2010 North American School of Information Theory Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the BoG meeting, ISIT10 June 13, 2010, Austin TX
Past Event at CISS 2010 This year, we introduced a new networking event at CISS 2010. The event was geared towards graduating students looking for postdoc and industry positions. Pizza lunch was served. About 100 students attended.
ISIT 2010 Event 1 June 14, 2010 (tomorrow), 12:50-2:30, Room 400/402:round table research discussion Topics: Feedback for Multi-User Channels; Complexity and Energy; Interference Alignment; Capacity Scaling of Ad Hoc Networks; Networking/Delay; Distributed Storage; Polar Codes; Secrecy; Joint Source Channel Coding; Security and Networking; Deterministic Models; Game Dynamics on Networks Lunch will be provided T-shirts will be distributed to students
ISIT 2010 Event 2 June 17, 2010 (Thursday), 12:50-2:30,Room 400/402: Panel discussion “Recipes for a good talk” Panelists: Massimo Franceschetti Emina Soljanin Emre Telatar Venu Veeravalli Aaron Wagner Lunch will be provided
Student Members Existing: Bobak Nazer Salim ElRouayeb Rui Costa New: Ravi Tandon Ye Tian If you get the chance, pleasetake the opportunity to thank theseyoung volunteers for their service
Call for volunteers: The student committee needsmore members to help organize events and outreach programs Event attendance has grown significantly in the past three years. We need more volunteers for studentleadership as our membership grows,and as the current volunteers transitionto post-student life. Please encourage students that youfeel are potential leaders and askthem to contact Aylin.
Update on the 2010 North American School of Information TheoryAylin Yener & Gerhard Kramer 7
Logistics 2010 School to be at USC in Los Angeles, Thu-Sun, Aug 5-8, 2010 Applications due: April 30 Confirmation due: June 10 Web site:http://www.itsoc.org/school 8
Organizing Committee General Chairs:Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer Program and Applications: Michelle Effros and Tracey Ho Local Arrangements: Mike Neely and Alex Dimakis Web Site: Matthieu Bloch Treasurer: Sriram Viswanath 9
In 2008 and 2009 • Format: 3 lectures, 4.5 hours each • Attendance was 140+ students in 2009 • Most students stayed in NW dorms in 2009 10
New in 2010 New format: Six 2-hour lectures by 6 speakers Motivation:- Increase instructor-to-student ratio- Expand number of topics- New format will be easier on theinstructors and students School was registered with IEEE asa “conference” and the ITSOCconfirmed sponsorship. 11
Instructors Emmanuel Candes Andrea Goldsmith Alon Orlitsky Rudy Urbanke Sergio Verdu Jack Wolf [Padovani Lecturer] 12 12
Attendees 2010 • We received 232 student applications!This is a ≈50% increase over 2009, which itself had a 40% increase in attendees as compared to 2008 • We decided to “go for it” andaccommodate all applicants • Many international applicants • 22 Canada • 9 Brazil / China / Germany /India / Israel / Italy / Japan /Luxembourg / Saudi Arabia
Attendees 2010 (status 6/11/10) • Number of Applicants: 232 students • Confirmed: 192 • Housing: 137 (≈135 in 2009) • No Housing: 47 • Will Attend: 8 • Cancellations: 26 • Undecided (5)/no response (9): 14 • Others: 6 instructors, 8 organizers,10 junior faculty • Total: ≈ 220 people
Estimated Budget USC housing: $27k $50/person/night x 4 nights x 135 Food: 4 days, 220 attendees ≈ $30k Instructor/organizer travel = $6k Materials = $5k Incidentals = $2k Total: $70k 15
Fundraising • Housing fee: $120/student x 135 students ≈$16k • ITSOC: $20k • ARL/ARO: proposal for $15k (likely: ≥ $10k ) • NSF: proposal for $25k (hope: ≥ $10k) • Individual school contributions: • Rice: $2k • Penn State (NSRC): $1k • UT Austin (WNCG): $1k • Princeton: $0.5k • Texas A&M, USC: to be determined • Caltech, MIT, Notre Dame, Stanford:contacted 16
Summary and Outlook 2010 School received a record 232 applications. Things are on track. Enthusiasm about the School has spread! We have volunteers lined up to organizethe 2011, 2012, 2013 schools: 2011: UT Austin (Sriram Vishwanath) 2012: Cornell (Aaron Wagnerand Salman Avestimehr) 2013: Banff (Christian Schlegel) 17 17