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Student Committee Report

Detailed report on past and upcoming events organized by the Student Committee, including guest speakers, panel discussions, and future plans.

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Student Committee Report

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  1. Student Committee Report Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the Officers meeting, ITA, UCSD A. Yener

  2. Outline • Previous Events: • ISIT 2008 • Allerton 2008 • Upcoming Events: • CISS 2009, ISIT 2009 • Forward look • Second Annual School of Information Theory Update A. Yener

  3. ISIT 2008, Toronto • July 7, 2008: we organized a research discussion round table event for all participating students. • 130+ students attended the lunch event. Discussion leaders were: • Graphical models - Alex Dimakis (UC Berkeley) • Source coding - Krish Eswaran (UC Berkeley) • Feedback - Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Michigan) • Interference and Secrecy - Xiang He (Penn State) • Relaying - Bobak Nazer (UC Berkeley) • Distributed detection and estimation - Anima Anandkumar (Cornell) • Scaling laws - Awlok Josan (University of Michigan) • Zero-error Information Theory - Salim El Rouayheb (Texas A&M) • Optimization - Chee Wei Tan (Princeton) A. Yener

  4. ISIT 2008, Toronto (2) • July 10, 2008: we organized a panel discussion titled “What Makes a Great Researcher?” • Panelist were: Tom Cover and Andrea Goldsmith of Stanford, Sergio Verdu of Princeton University, Alon Orlitsky of UCSD and Alexander Barg of University of Maryland. • 130+ attendees. Lunch provided; free IT student committee T-shirts were distributed to the participants. A. Yener

  5. Allerton 2008 • Joint event with the Outreach Committee • Panel on Mentoring at Allerton library. • Panelist were: Todd Coleman (UIUC), Elza Erkip (Poly), Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC), Roy Yates (Rutgers), and Aylin Yener (Penn State). • It was a good and interactive discussion. A. Yener

  6. Upcoming Events • CISS 09, probably a round table research event • ISIT 09, round table, panel • ? A. Yener

  7. Membership Update • Retired members: Brooke Shrader, Lalitha Sankar, Nan Liu • New members: Student co-chair: Krish Eswaran (UCB); member: Deniz Gunduz (Princeton/Stanford), Xiang He (Penn State); Web: Matthieu Bloch (Notre Dame) A. Yener

  8. Forward look: • Volunteers • We need to reach out to more volunteers to actively participate. • Potential new members need to be sought as the current ones transition to post-student life. • Web • Integration to the new ITSoc site. A. Yener

  9. Update: Second Annual School of Information Theory A. Yener

  10. Organizing Committee for 2009 • Aylin Yener, Penn State • Gerhard Kramer, USC • Daniela Tuninetti, UIC • Randy Berry, Northwestern • Dongning Guo, Northwestern • Natasha Devroye, UIC • Yalin Sagduyu, Northwestern • Matthieu Bloch, Notre Dame A. Yener

  11. Goals and Procedure: same as 2008! • Any graduate student or post-doc eligible to apply. • Students apply for the school with their presentation/poster title. • Students will each give a 10min talk or present a poster. • Cap:100 students. • No registration Fee. • Ideally: NO COST to attendees. • Reality: As allowed by travel grants. • New for 2009: Lodging available in the dorms. A. Yener

  12. Organization Update • Northwestern classrooms will be used. • Instructor list almost complete. • Application deadline set. • Fundraising: 10k from ITSoc; otherwise: lots of effort, no outcome yet  A. Yener

  13. Calendar, Location for 2009 The Second Annual School of Information Theory will take place August 10– August 13, Thursday 2009 at the Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL. A. Yener

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  15. Keynote and Instructors • Keynote: Robert Gallager • Instructors: • Bruce Hajek • Dan Costello • ? (perhaps) A. Yener

  16. 2009 Budget (100 students, 4 days) • Lunches total: $ 8000 • Wednesday Barbecue: $ 3500 • Breaks total: $ 4000 • Breakfasts total: $ 4500 • Easels, poster boards, badges, registration packets, mutimedia, … $ 4000 • Instructor travel support $ 3500 • Contingency $ 2500 • TOTAL 30k, not including student travel grants. • Most expensive item: food (as in 2008). • Students pay for lodging and dinners. + A. Yener

  17. Funding Status • Society: 10k commitment (Sept 08) • NSF might come through for travel support. • Motion: We request (upto 10k) more commitment from the society at this time. A. Yener

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