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May 4, 2008 A. Yener, ITW 1
Student Committee Report
Aylin Yener, Penn State
Presented at the BoG meeting, Porto, Portugal
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Outline
• Previous Events:– CISS 2008
• Upcoming Events:– ISIT 2008
• Initiatives– The new web-site
• First Annual School of Information Theory Update
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Events since Allerton 07: CISS 2008, Princeton NJ
• March 20, 2008: we organized a research discussion round table event for all participating students.
• About 90 students attended the lunch event held at the Friend Center convocation room at Princeton.
• Lalitha Sankar led the organization. 6 research topics discussed and led by the student volunteers. – “MIMO Channels”, leader: Jimmy Chui, Princeton.– “Network Coding” leader: Anna Pantelidou, UMD.– “Sparse Representations and Compressed
Sensing”, leader: Eugene Brevdo, Princeton.– “Ad-hoc Networks” leader: Sharon Betz, Princeton– “Network and Information Security”, leaders:
Lifeng Lai, Ruoheng Liu, Princeton, and Prasanth Ananthapadmanabhan, UMD.
– “Network Optimization”, leaders: Chee Wei Tan, Princeton, Joydeep Acharya, WINLAB, Rutgers.
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Upcoming Events:ISIT 2008, Toronto
• Two lunch time events planned• Monday: Round table research
discussion• Thursday: Panel• Free T-shirt as is done every year• In collaboration with the local
organization of ISIT (R. Adve, T.J. Lim)
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New Initiatives:Student Committee Web-site
• The student committee web-site has been static html and was maintained by a volunteer student. – We feel that a content based architecture
will be much more useful:– Uploads/interaction takes place without
delay.– Students can upload material– We can make available detailed records of
past events.
• Preparations are currently underway to switch to Plone (Ack: Our “new” webmaster Anand Sarwate)
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New Initiatives: Volunteers
• We need to reach out to more volunteers to actively participate.
• Potential new student chairs will be
sought as the current ones transition to post-student life.
• Action item: posts within the
committee for better defined tasks of the committee.
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Organizing Committee for 2008
• Program Chairs:– Aylin Yener, Penn State– Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs
• Student Applications:– Sennur Ulukus, UMD– Ivana Maric, Stanford
• Publicity&Web:– Nick Laneman, Notre Dame– Lalitha Sankar, Princeton– Brooke Shrader, UMD
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From the proposal (Sept 07) School of Information Theory:Our way to pay it forward to our society’s future generations
• Lectures by renowned members of our society.
• Students interact with their peers.• Students interact with senior
scientists and get feedback on their work.
• Students get exposed to contextand “big picture” early on.
• The school will help foster friendships and collaboration for future academic and industrial scientists and promote IT.
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From the proposal (Sept 07): Who will attend?
• Any graduate student or post-doc eligible to apply
• Students apply for the school with their cvs and presentation/poster title
• Students will each give a 10min talk and present a poster on the same topic for longer more detailed interactions.
• Cap:100 students (plan for 50-60)• No registration Fee • Ideally: NO COST to attendees• Reality: Travel grants as much as
budget allows
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Calendar, Location for 2008
The inaugural school of Information Theory will take place June 1, Sunday – June 5, Thursday 2008 at the University Park Campus, Penn State, State College, PA.
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Instructors
• Vince Poor: Keynote• Toby Berger: TBA• Muriel Medard: Network Coding• David Tse: IT of Wireless
Networks: Breaking the log-jam
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Response• The response to the school
has been above and beyond all our expectations: We received over 150 applications!
• Original organization, preparations and budget was envisioning 60 attendees.
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Organization• We have made new
arrangements to be able to accommodate 120 students and a total of 135 attendees.
• Given the budget constraints and the large number of attendees, we had to first verify from applicants whether they could attend without travel support.
• To accommodate 120 students, we will have a mix of 10min talks and poster sessions (as opposed to both per student).
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New 2008 Schedule • For a total of 135 attendees: 120
students, instructors, keynote speaker, organizers, other academics
• June 1: Evening Reception 6-8pm• June 2 and 3: 4.5h instruction; 2h
student presentations• June 4: 3h instruction, 1h panel, 2.5h
student presentations, evening banquet
• June 5: 1h keynote; 5.5h student presentations
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2008 Schedule June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5
BFOpening remarks 3X90min Lectures Muriel Medard: “Network Coding”
(2 breaks, lunch)
BF3X90min Lectures David Tse: “Information Theory of Wireless Networks: Breaking the logjam”
(2 breaks, lunch)
2X90 Lectures: Toby Berger: TBAPanel:TBAStudent Presentations 3:30-6pm
Banquet 7-9:30
Keynote: Vince Poor: TBA
Student presentations 10:30-6pm
Student presentations4-6pm
Student presentations4-6pm
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2008 Budget• The lectures and presentations will be held in Penn State classrooms.• Classrooms: free of charge. • Breaks: in the vicinity of classrooms.• Reception, Banquet: at the campus
hotel (NLI)• We have made every effort to keep
the misc expenses as well as food/breaks break costs down.
• The numbers we currently have are given in the next page in detail.
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2008 Budget (min total: $35800)• Banquet dinner $ 5700• Reception $ 2800• Lunches total: $ 7000• Breaks total: $ 7000• Breakfasts total: $ 4300• Food total $26800• Other (easels,poster boards,• badges, registration packets) $ 2300• Multimedia (pics etc) and contingency $3000• Instructor travel support $2700• Not including student travel grants.
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Funding Status for 2008 so far• Society: 10k commitment
(Sept 07)• Penn State Networking and
Security Research Center (CSE) 3k
• Princeton University EE: 3k• Penn State EE: 3k• DARPA: 10k (incoming)• NSF: Proposal in submission
stage (likely will result in10k travel support)
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Funding Status for 2008 summary• 32k+ in non-travel support
expenses• 29k committed to general
expenses• Likely 10k from NSF but
likely for travel grants only.• We request an additional
$10k from the society to cover the expenses properly and provide travel grants.