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Student Committee Report and Update on the Second Annual North American Information Theory School
Aylin Yener, Penn StatePresented at the BoG meeting, ISIT09
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Outline
1. Upcoming Events:• ISIT 2009
2. General info and Outlook
3. School Update
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ISIT 2009 Event 1
• June 29, 2009 (tomorrow), 12:50-2:30, COEX 105: Panel discussion “When does conversation become collaboration?”
• Panelist: – Michelle Effros (Caltech)– Nihar Jindal (UMinn) – Gerhard Kramer (USC) – Daniela Tuninetti (UIC)– Jack Wolf (UCSD)
• Lunch will be provided
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ISIT 2009 Event 2 • July 2, 2009, 12:50-2:30, COEX 105: round
table research discussion • Lunch will be provided• Topics:
– Secrecy – Network Coding – Energy Efficiency – Feedback in Communication Systems– Achievability techniques for network co
mmunication– Biometric Security – Scaling laws – Compressed sensing– Interference Channel– Sparse graph code– Experimental Information Theory– Coding strategies for relay networks
• T-shirts will be distributed to students at the end
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ISIT 2009 Events- CostPanel Discussion and Meeting• Room Charge: KRW1,320,000 (including 10%
tax)• Food:• - Sandwich: KRW15,400 (including 10% tax) X 140
persons = KRW 2,156,000• - Orange Juice: KRW1,100 (including 10% tax) X
140 persons = KRW 154,000
Round Table Research Discussion• Room Charge: KRW 1,320,000 (including 10%
tax)• Food:• - Sandwich: KRW15,400 (including 10% tax) X 140
persons = KRW 2,156,000• - Orange Juice: KRW1,100 (including 10% tax) X
140 persons = KRW 154,000• T-shirts: KRW6,000 X 140 EA = KRW 840,000
TOTAL= KRW 8100,000 ~ = $6500
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Upcoming Events
• Allerton: Possibly a panel discussion and/or a graduating student poster event
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Membership Update• Current members: Student co-
chairs: Ivana Maric (Stanford), Krish Eswaran (UCB); members: Deniz Gunduz (Princeton/Stanford), Xiang He (Penn State); Web: Matthieu Bloch (Notre Dame)
• New member: Salim ElRouayheb (Texas A&M)
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Forward look:
• Volunteers– We need to reach out to more
volunteers for student leadership as our membership rapidly grows.
– Student leaders: Potential new members need to be sought as the current ones transition to post-student life.
– Please encourage your students and have them contact Aylin.
• Web– The new ITSoc web-site is great!
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Update: Second Annual North American School of Information Theory
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The Second Annual North American School of Information Theory will take place August 10–13, 2009 at the Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL.
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Organizing Committee for 2009• General Chairs:
– Aylin Yener, Penn State– Gerhard Kramer, USC
• Program and Local Arrangements:
– Randy Berry, Northwestern– Dongning Guo, Northwestern
• Applications:
– Daniela Tuninetti, UIC– Natasha Devroye, UIC
• Web and publicity:
– Matthieu Bloch, GATech– Yalin Sagduyu, Northwestern
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Keynote and Instructors
• Keynote: Robert Gallager, MIT
• Instructors:– Abbas El Gamal, Stanford– Bruce Hajek, UIUC– Dan Costello, Notre Dame
• Abbas El Gamal is the first Padovani Lecturer.
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Basics• Any graduate student or post-
doc eligible to apply for the school with their presentation/poster title.
• Students will each give a 10min talk or present a poster.
• No registration Fee. • Ideally: NO COST to attendees.• Reality: As allowed by the support
we have.• New for 2009: Lodging in the
dorms which we subsidize.
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Applications• Deadline was April 21,
2009.• Applications were collected
online • Site was open less than three
weeks• Earlier projected cap was:
100 students (2008 stats: final student count attending was 101).
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Applications• Number of (non-local) applicants:
162• NW and UIC students participating
(not included above): ~12• In addition a number of junior faculty
asked to participate.• The numbers required us to rethink
and organize accordingly.X Option 1: Define criteria under
more than 40% applicants can be turned down
Option 2: Be optimistic and find a way to accommodate everyone.
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Organization Update• We resolved the space
problem by switching to a classroom that can accommodate up to 300 (earlier we had a classroom for 120).
• We made a deal to get the entire dorm to ourselves during the school.
• We decided to subsidize the cost of the dorm.
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School Accommodations • Agreement is signed with
Slivka Residential College on Northwestern's Campus (5min walking distance to the classroom)
• We guaranteed 130 beds to be filled at $55/night for 4 nights.
• We decided to subsidize $30/night/student, and to collect $25/night=$100/student for the dorm.
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Attendance • We informed the students on June 2, and
asked them to confirm their attendance and provide $25/night=$100/student for the dorm. (Note: Each student had to create an account on itsoc.org first )
• 126 non-local students are confirmed so far (can go up by 10)
• Additionally we will have:– 12 local students– 8 organizers – 10 or so invited guests (faculty, sponsors)– 4 speakers
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Attendance 2009• Expected total number of attendees: 160-170
• Student attendees have grown by 40% since last year!
• 101 in 2008 versus 138-148 in 2009
• Budget will be tight. – More students=more food– Dorm subsidy also a big ticket item
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Estimated 2009 Budget• Lunches: $ 8000• Picnic/Bonfire: $ 3500• Breakfasts: $ 4500• Materials etc $ 4000• Instructor Travel $ 2500• Contingency $ 2900• Dorm $28600
$54000
+
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Funding Status
• Society: 20k• DARPA+ARL/ARO: 5-15k
(amount not finalized yet)• Northwestern: 5k• USC: 2k• Dorm contribution from
students: 12.6k• No response from NSF yet.• Total: 44.6k - 54.6k
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Summary• Preparations are going well.• The demand for the school
has grown by 40% since 2008.• We are trying our best to
accommodate all with a tight budget.