There is a postdoctoral researcher and a doctoral student position open at University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland), Department of Communications Engineering (DCE) and Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC). More information and link to the application system available at http://www.oulu.fi/dce/node/28680

Two page extended abstracts are solicited for the first round of reviews of the Special Issue on the Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2015

Coding theory, cryptogrology, information theory.

The 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop will take place in Jeju Island, Korea, from October 11 to October 15, 2015. Interested authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions in all areas of information theory.

The 2015 International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod 2015) will be held in Sydney, Australia from 22 June to 24 June, 2015. We invite original, previously unpublished papers in the area of network coding.

The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015

Two Post-Doc positions are offered at the Mathematics Department, at University of Campinas – Unicamp, Brazil, for young researchers in Coding Theory and Discrete Geometries.

A toolbox for the computation of achievability and converse bound in finite blocklength information theory

We invite original contributions for the IEEE JSAC special issue on Recent Advances in Capacity Approaching Codes.

Imre Csiszár has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. Richard Baraniuk has been named the recipient of the 2015 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal

2014 Bell Labs Prize awarded to Emmanuel Abbe to investigate fundamental limits of social networks.

Registration for the 2015 European School of Information Theory (ESIT 2015) has opened.

The 14th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, from Monday, July 6 to Thursday, July 9, 2015.

The Claude E. Shannon Award honors consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon

The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award, formerly known as IT Society Distinguished Service Award, honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society and appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years.

The Joint Communications Society/Information Theory Society Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Information Theory Society

The deadline for submission to the conference track has been extended by one week until November 28