Photos

Some photos of the Workshop have been published here.

Welcome

The 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2006), organized by Facultad de Ingeniería-Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and the IEEE Information Theory Society, will take place from the evening of Monday, March 13, through Friday, March 17, 2006, at the Conrad Resort and Casino in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

The workshop is immediately followed by Latin'06, which will be held on the week of March 20-24 in Valdivia, Chile.

Keynote Speakers

The workshop will include keynote lectures and thematic sessions. We are pleased to announce that keynote lectures will be given by

• Elwyn Berlekamp, University of California, Berkeley
• Jorma Rissanen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

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Topics

The sessions of the workshop will cover the following topics:

• Algebraic and combinatorial coding theory
• Algorithms in finite fields
• Analysis of algorithms in information theory
• Application of coding theory in computer science
• Coding techniques for storage
• Communication complexity
• Cryptography and data security
• Data compression algorithms and source coding
• Data networks
• Detection
• Information theory and statistics
• LDPC codes, turbo codes, and iterative decoding
• Multi-user information theory
• Pattern recognition and learning
• Shannon theory
• Universal prediction and on-line algorithms

Sessions will consist mainly of invited talks, but will also include slots for contributed papers. Submission of papers on the above topics is hereby solicited. The deadline for submission is November 10, 2005. Authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by December 23, 2005. The final versions of all contributions, to be published in the workshop proceedings CD, will be due by January 15, 2006.

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Call For Papers

Click [here] to download the Call For Papers of the event.

Thanks

We gratefully acknowledge the support of

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IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2006) - March 13-17, 2006, Punta del Este, Uruguay
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