ITSoc Newsletter September 2016 issue now online

ITSoc Newsletter September 2016 issue now online

New York University Department of Physics announces open faculty positions in quantum information: http://physics.as.nyu.edu/object/physics.facultypositions

A full PhD scholarship on information theory and index coding at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

The Online Committee is pleased to announce the new ITSOC.org site.

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

The IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. This author must be a registered student of an educational institution at the time of paper submission to be eligible.

The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.

ISITA2016 will feature a recent results poster session. Interested authors are encouraged to submit their latest results. A one-page abstract is due July 31, 2016. http://www.isita2016.org/

The IEEE Information Theory Society Outreach Subcommittee Presents a New ISIT Event:

New contributed announcements over the weekend may not be reflected in the new site.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of IEEE Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2015 Best Paper Award and the 2015 Best Student Paper Award

Slides from some of the talks given through the ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) are available.

All IEEE journals require an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) for all authors. ORCIDs enable accurate attribution and improved discoverability of an author’s published work. The author will need a registered ORCID in order to submit a manuscript or review a proof in this journal.

Kartik Venkat, Stanford University, PhD. is announced as the recipient of the Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for 2016, from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for his dissertation obtained under the direction of Professor Tsachy Weissman in the Information Systems Lab of the Stanford Electrical Engineering Department.

Information about the ITSOC Distinguished Lecturer Program is now posted more prominently on the site.

The 2016 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars is awarded to Professor Andrea Montanari of Stanford University. The 2016 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded to Kartik Venkat of Stanford University. The 2016 Angel Lozano, Robert W. Heath, Jr., and Jeffrey G. Andrews, Fundamental Limits of Cooperation.