• Location: COEX, Seoul, Korea

• Dates: June 28 (Sun.) – July 3 (Fri.), 2009

• Some Key Organizers:

– General Chairs: Jong-Seon No & Vince Poor

– Program Chairs: Rob Calderbank, Habong Chung & Alon

Orlitsky

– Finance Chairs: Mung Chiang & Jun Heo

• Conference loan of US$40,000 from the IT Society,

Nov. 20, 2007

• Contract with PCO, March 5, 2008. (US$ 50,000)

• Deadline for advance registration: April 30, 2009

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• Signed contract with COEX for ISIT 2009, April 18, 2008

(US$ 70,000)

• Established website of ISIT2009 at www.isit2009.info, by

PCO, April 2008

• Paper submissions: 964 papers (deadline: Jan. 17, 2009)

(accepted 603 papers out of 993 submissions for ISIT2008)

• Authors notified by March 31, 2009 (TPC meeting @ CISS)

• Upload of accepted papers by April 30, 2009

• At least, one author per paper must register by April 30,

2009 and each author registration covers up to two papers.

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• Shannon Lecturer

– Jorma Rissanen (Tampere University of Technology)

• Plenary Speakers

– Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)

– David Tse (UC Berkeley)

– Raymond Yeung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

– Nago Alon (Tel Aviv University)

• Tutorials

– Emmanuel J. Candes (CIT); Recovering the Unseen: Old and New

– Amin Shokrollahi (EPFL); Fountain Codes

– Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University); Writing on a Clean Slate

– David Tse (UC Berkeley); Interference Management; An Information

Theoretic View

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• Outside Funding

– Very difficult to get financial support from

companies in Korea due to severe economic crisis

– But the high exchange rate of Korean won to US

dollars helps a lot in balancing the budget

– Thus we can expect a small budget surplus without

financial support from the companies in Korea.

– We are still seeking financial support from US and

Korean companies and government agencies (NSF, ONR,

etc.).

– Financial support from HP in US of around 3000US$.

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ISIT2009 ISIT2009 Budget Details Budget Details

Meeting Rooms with Tax $67,958

A/V Equipments $20,000

Banquet 600 x $120 =  $72,000

Luncheon 600 x $70 =  $42,000

Reception 350 x $40 =  $14,000

Coffee 600 x $60 =  $36,000

Gift 700 x $20 =  $14,000

Promotion (CFP, Program) $20,000

Proceedings $20,000

Travel $10,000

Conference Administration (PCO) $50,000

Committee $12,000

Credit card fee and Audit fee $10,916

Miscellany $20,000

Total  $408,874

• Income: USD432,300 (Not including financial support from government and private sources.)

• Expenses: USD408,874 ( Surplus: USD23,426 )

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• Registration Fee

• Number of Registrations

    2006(USD) 2007(USD) 2008(CD) 2009(USD)

 Member Advance 575 754 675 700

 On-Site 674 867 775 850

 Nonmember Advance 700 881 825 800

 On-Site 800 1041 925 950

 Student Advance 250 413 375 350

 On-Site 350 494 425 420

     2005 2007 2008 2009

 Member Advance  267 368 331 300

 On-Site  70 37 90 90

 Nonmember Advance  64 54 66 50

 On-Site 27 12 14 20

 Student Advance  117 290 318 200

 On-Site  25 26 61 40

 Total    630 787 880 700

• Registration Fee for Attendees from Korea

– There is a severe economic crisis in Korea, even relative to US

– High exchange rate of Korean won to US dollars; it changed

from 950Kwon/1USD, 2008 to 1550Kwon/1USD, today.

– Very difficult for attendees from Korea to register for ISIT2009.

– We would like to post the registration fee for attendees from

Korea in Korean won at an exchange rate of 1350Kwon/1USD.

– Gives an advance registration fee for IEEE members of 945,000Kwon.

– We could post this information in Korean for Korean attendees.

– If the exchange rate goes down, we can adjust accordingly.

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