Dear Friends and Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the  IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2019  which will be held in Visby, Gotland, Sweden, from the 25th to the 28th of August 2019.

The Hanseatic city Visby is located on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea. It is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Scandinavia with its 3.4km long town wall and several church ruins in the old city center. Visby is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995 and Gotland is a very popular summer vacation destination for Scandinavians.

We seek original, unpublished contributions in  all areas of information theory , including but not limited to the focus topics listed below.

1. Modern Coding Theory

• Graph based codes and iterative decoding
• Spatially coupled codes
• Polar codes

In addition, papers that broaden the reach of information theory, including emerging fields and novel applications of information theory, are encouraged.

The workshop features  six keynotes  given by world leading researchers in the field:

• Ilya Dumer  (University of California Riverside, USA)
• Syed A. Jafar  (University of California Irvine, USA)
• Olgica Milenkovic (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Angelia Nedich (Arizona State University, USA)
• Anant Sahai (University of California Berkeley, USA)
• Aylin Yener (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Important Dates

Date of submission:  April 10, 2019
Date of notification: June 10, 2019
Camera ready paper due: July 1, 2019

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Visby!
The organization committee