In honor of Claude Shannon’s centennial: We are pleased to announce a Special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications on Biological Applications of Information Theory Submission deadline April 30, 2016

Registration is now open for the Claude E. Shannon 100th Birthday Celebration in Paderborn, Germany, on May 3-4

Submit your papers to IEEE JSAC Issue on Channel Modeling, Coding and Signal Processing for Novel Physical Memory Devices and Systems. Submission deadline April 15, 2016. Full CFP at http://committees.comsoc.org/dstc/index.php?page=cfp-jsac2016

Special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications on Biological Applications of Information Theory, in honour of the Shannon Centennial

Radarconf16 is in Philadelphia May 2-6. "Enabling Technologies for Advances in Radar." Technical sessions will be held May 3, 4, and 5. Split between May 2 and May 6, 24 tutorials are scheduled also.

A postdoctoral position is available at the University of Cambridge, starting July 2016.

Multiple PhD positions to start in the Fall 2016 at the University of Texas, Dallas, in the broad area of Information Theory with emphasis in Wireless Communication, Error Control Coding, or Physical Layer Security.

Postdoctoral Position in theoretical analysis of spectrum sharing between communications and radar systems at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ph.D. studentship at the National University of Singapore in Information Theory

Bell Labs is celebrating Shannon’s 100th birthday at Bell Labs on April 28-29, and as part of the celebration we are hosting the Shannon Centennial Student Award in the area of Information Theory and Its Application.

Postdoctoral opening in Prof. Besma Smida’s group - See more at: http://smida.people.uic.edu/interests.html

European school of information theory (ESIT)

Videos of the ISIT 2015 Shannon Lecture by Robert Calderbank and plenary talks by Bin Yu, Madhu Sudan, Terrence Sejnowski, and Ruediger Urbanke are available for streaming on the ITSOC Vimeo page.

Call for ITSoc newsletter contributions

A PhD position in information and communication theory in fiber-optical communication at DTU Fotonik

The call for participation for ESIT 2016 is now available for download. Please distribute it to potentially interested Ph.D./post-doctoral students in your department.