The 2011 North American School of Information Theory was held from Friday   May 27th 8:00am to  Monday May 30th 2011 5:00pm, at the University of Texas at Austin. The school offered graduate students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to learn from leading experts in information theory through short courses and talks as well as the chance to present their own work.

This year's lecturers were Rich Baraniuk, Bob Gray, Sanjoy Mitter, Emina Soljanin, and Emre Telatar. Rich Baraniuk will be the third Padovani Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society  and will give his lecture at the School. The Padovani Lecture is sponsored by a generous gift of Roberto Padovani.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in North America working on problems of information theory in a broad sense were encouraged to apply with the title and a short (less than 250 words) abstract of a poster they would like to present.

The application deadline for the school was extended to March18th 2011 and notifications were be sent by March 20th 2011. The online application form was available here.

Videos

Videos of the lectures are available on the ITSOC YouTube Channel.

• Emre Telatar: Polar Codes [Part 1][Part 2]
• Sanjoy Mitter: Control with Communication Constraints
• Robert Gray: Stationary Codes: Shannon meets Ornstein
• Richard Baraniuk: Compressive Sensing: A New Framework for Sparse Signal Acquisition and Processing
• Emina Soljanin: Urns & Balls and Communications

General Chairs

Sriram Vishwanath

Tie Liu

Program and Applications

Elza Erkip

Robert Cui

Aaron Wagner

Local  Arrangements

Jean-Francois Chamberland

Henry Pfister

Web

Matthieu Bloch

Advisors

Aylin Yener

Gerhard Kramer