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Proposal: Second Annual School of Information Theory

The Second Annual School of Information Theory will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. The school aims to foster collaboration and promote information theory through lectures, student presentations, and interactions with renowned members of the society.

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Proposal: Second Annual School of Information Theory

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  1. Proposal: Second Annual School of Information Theory Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the BoG meeting, UIUC A. Yener

  2. School took place in the firstweek of June 2008 Background: First Annual School of Information Theory • European Winter School in Coding & Information Theory has existed since the early 1990s • Purpose: an event where students can get to know each other outside of “large” events • The idea of having a School inNorth America began in late 2006 • IEEE Information Theory SocietyBoG supported the idea • Preparations for the Penn StateUniversity event began in Sept. 2007 A. Yener

  3. Attendance Statistics for 2008 • Over 150 student applicants • Student Attendance: 101 • Senior attendees (includinginstructors): 13 • IT Society: 20k • DARPA: 10k • Penn State (total): 6k • Princeton: 3k Support for 2008 A. Yener

  4. Budget Details for 2008 • 114 total attendees, no registration fee. • Classrooms: free of charge. • Remainder of 39k dispersed as travel grants. + A. Yener

  5. Next Stop is… • Chicago Central US, Easily reachable A. Yener

  6. Organizing Committee for 2009 • Aylin Yener, Penn State • Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs (USC) • Daniela Tuninetti, UIC • Randy Berry Northwestern • Dongning Guo, Northwestern • Yalin Sagduyu, Northwestern • Matthieu Bloch, Notre Dame • TBA • TBA • TBA A. Yener

  7. From the proposal (Sept 07) School of Information Theory:Our way to pay it forward to our society’s future generations • Lectures by renowned members of our society. • Students interact with their peers. • Students interact with senior scientists and get feedback on their work. • Students get exposed to contextand “big picture” early on. • The school will help foster friendships and collaboration for future academic and industrial scientists and promote IT. A. Yener

  8. Observations from the First Annual School of Information Theory: • Lectures generated much excitement, and plenty of questions. • Students interacted with their peers and with the senior attendees extensively. • Student presentations were well prepared and enthusiastically delivered. • Exit survey ratings were great • We are confident that the school helps foster friendships and collaboration for future academic and industrial scientists and promote IT. • Bottomline: Model is working well. A. Yener

  9. Goals and Procedure: same as 2008! • Any graduate student or post-doc eligible to apply • Students apply for the school with their presentation/poster title • Students will each give a 10min talk or present a poster. • Cap:100 students • No registration Fee • Ideally: NO COST to attendees • Reality: As allowed by travel grants • New for 2009: Lodging available in the dorms. A. Yener

  10. Calendar, Location for 2009 The Second Annual School of Information Theory is planned to take place August 2, Sunday – August 6, Thursday 2009 at the Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL. A. Yener

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  12. Northwestern University • Located in Evanston, the first suburb north of Chicago (about 30 minutes to downtown Chicago). • 240-acre campus on Lake Michigan. • Easy access to public transportation and 30 minute cab ride from O’hare International Airport. • Classrooms available for free. A. Yener

  13. Northwestern University- Lodging Options • Room and board packages from NWU dorms available: $100/day including all three meals • Hotel rates in the vicinity runs about $120-200/day for August 2-7, 2009(2-3 students can share the room) A. Yener

  14. Useful points summary • Dorm rooms, including meals, and reasonable hotels available on or close to campus. • Classrooms/auditoriums for free. • We’ll make every effort to keep the misc expenses as well as food/break costs down. • Limit the number of students to 100. • Instructors (TBA): We’ll use exit survey data from 2008 (suggested instructors) • Topics: TBA (sufficiently different from 08): potential examples: source coding, networking. A. Yener

  15. 2009 Schedule A. Yener

  16. 2009 Budget (100 students) • Lunches total: $ 8000 • Wednesday Barbecue $ 3500 (with lots of veggie options  ) • Breaks: $ 4000 • Breakfasts total: $ 4500 • Food total $20000 • Easels,poster boards,badges, registration packets, mutimedia… $ 4000 • Instructor travel support $ 3500 • Contingency $ 2500 • $ 30000 • Not including student travel grants. • Students pay for lodging and dinners. + A. Yener

  17. Potential Sponsors for 2009 • Society. • NSF for student travel grants. • Local IEEE chapter. • Motorola. A. Yener

  18. Second Annual School of Information Theory (2009) • We request $20k from the society to cover the expenses and provide travel grants with the remaining funds if any. A. Yener

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