2013 SCHOOL OF INFORMATION THEORY

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: Wojciech Szpankowski

Program Committee: Andrea Goldsmith, Sergio Verdu, Deepak Kumar, Olgica Milenkovic, Todd Coleman, Mark D. Ward

Local Arrangements: Brent Ladd, Barbara Gibson

Publicity and Web: Mike Atwell

Advisors: Gerhard Kramer, Aylin Yener, Abbas El Gamal

LOGISTICS

2013 School proposed to be hosted in West Lafayette on Purdue campus

Organized by Center for the Science of Information (http://soihub.org )

Dates: June 4-7, 2013

Applications due: March 15th 2013

Decisions: March 22nd 2013

Registration by April 15th 2013

Website: http://www.itsoc.org/school2013

FORMAT IN 2013Theme: Towards integrating time, space, structure, and semantics in the

flow of information. 2 days Core IT 2 days Interdisciplinary topics that bridge information theory with biology,

knowledge extraction, and quantum information theory Diversity workshop

Padovani Lecturer: TBDOther Speakers: TBD

Ask that School be registered with IEEE as a conference

Purdue Dorms Dorms will act like hotel registration: Students register with dorm and provide credit card backup. If no show (15-day cancellation), student is fined. Students post-billed once checkout.

Purdue Engineering Mall

FUNDRAISING

In previous years: 2008: $39k (ITSOC, DARPA, Univ.; 101 students) 2009: $58K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 141 students) 2010: $61K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 178 students) 2011: $62K (ITSOC, NSF, Univ., CSoI, ARO/ARL: 180 students) 2012: $44K (ITSOC, NSF, Univ., CSoI, IBM, Cornell, ARO/ARL; 111

students)

Estimate the school budget for 2013 will be $65K

Will approach NSF & ARO/ARL as in past years , IBM, etc– assistance appreciated

REQUEST FOR FUNDS

We respectfully ask for $25K from the ITSOC

Motion: that the ITSOC support the 2013 School of Information Theory with a grant of $25k