CWIT 2011 - 2011 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT)

Website cwit2011.ok.ubc.ca | Edit Freely

Category CWIT 2011

Deadline: January 15, 2011 | Date: May 17, 2011-May 20, 2011

Venue/Country: Kelowna, Canada

Updated: 2011-02-26 14:11:01 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

May 17-20, 2011

Second Call For Papers

The 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held on the campus of the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia in the scenic Okanagan Valley from Tuesday May 17 to Friday May 20, 2011. Papers in (but not exclusive to) the following fields of research are solicited:

Shannon Theory

Application of Information Theory

Multiuser Information Theory

Quantum Information Processing

Coding Theory and Practice

Coded Modulation

Data Compression and Source Coding

Communication Systems

Cooperative Communication

Cryptology and Data Security

Information Theory and Statistics

Signal Processing

Pattern Recognition and Learning

Sequences and Complexity

Multi-terminal Information Theory

Data Networks

Detection and Estimation

Cognitive Radio

Authors wishing to have papers considered for the workshop should electronically submit their full papers (maximum four pages) in PDF format by January 15, 2011 through EDAS (http://edas.info/index.php) using the standard IEEE two-column format. Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore website and in the proceedings of the workshop. Paper acceptance will be announced on March 15, 2011. Authors of papers accepted for the workshop will be requested to submit a four-page camera-ready paper no later than April 1, 2011.

The plenary speakers for CWIT 2011 will be Profs. Frank Kschischang (Toronto), Vahid Tarokh Harvard), and David Tse (UC Berkeley).

On May 17, 2011, Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) will sponsor a day-long School of

Information Theory. Profs. Mung Chiang (Princeton) and Syed Ali Jafar (UC Irvine) have agreed to be

the inaugural instructors for the first Canadian School of Information Theory. CSIT will provide

Conference inquiries regarding the workshop should be addressed to either of two workshop co-chairs:

Dr. Robert Schober

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of British Columbia

Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4

Phone: 604-822-3515

Fax: 604-822-5949

Email: rschoberece.ubc.ca

Dr. Julian Cheng

School of Engineering

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Kelowna BC V1V 1V7

Tel: 250-807-8808

Fax: 250-807-9850

Email: julian.chengubc.ca