Student Committee Report Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the BoG meeting, ITA’11 February 6, 2011, San Diego, CA

ISIT 2010 Event 1 (Roundtable Research Discussion) June 14, 2010 Thanks to our student discussion leaders: Viveck Cadambe: Interference Alignment Satashu Goel: Security and Networking Pulkit Grover: Complexity and Energy Yashodhan Kanoria: Game Dynamics on Networks Oliver Kosut: Secrecy Paolo Minero: Capacity Scaling of Ad Hoc Networks Parimal Parag: Networking/Delay Eren Sasoglu: Polar Codes Rajiv Soundararajan: Joint Source Channel Coding Changho Suh: Distributed Storage Ravi Tandon: Feedback for Multi-User Channels Ye Tian: Deterministic Models Lunch was provided T-shirts were distributed to students.

ISIT 2010 Event 2 (Panel) June 17, 2010 Panel discussion: “Recipes for a good talk” Thanks to our Panelists: Massimo Franceschetti                Emina Soljanin                       Emre Telatar           Venu Veeravalli                  Aaron Wagner        Lunch was provided

Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer ISIT events Each event was attended by 120 students. This was the maximum the hotel was able to accommodate. About 40 students could not get in in the first event. In order for this not to repeat, we have taken pro-active steps and communicated our concern to future chairs of: ISIT 2011: we will have a large enough room (lunch included in reg.) ISIT 2013 11/10/2018October 13, 2009 Aylin Yener and Gerhard Kramer

Allerton 2010 A new event was introduced. Information Theory Jeopardy! Categories: “Capacity Regions”, “Shannon Lecturers”, “Codes”, “IT Paper Awards”, and “ISIT Locations”. Questions were prepared by members of student committee. About 25 in attendance. Worth trying again (at ISIT?), with participation from faculty.

Student Members A big Thanks to Bobak Nazer for his service who recently started a tenure-track position in BU. Student attendance at ISIT etc and our events call for more volunteers. For a list of members (co-chairs, and event volunteers, see the student committee web page. Call for volunteers: Please encourage your students to participate in the student committee!

Brief Update on the Annual North American School of Information Theory 2011 School to be at University of Texas, Austin, over the memorial day weekend. Web site: http://www.itsoc.org/school 7 7

Organizing Committee Chairs: Sriram Vishwanath (UT) and Tie Liu Texas A&M) Robert Cui, Jean-Francois Chamberland, Henry Pfister (Texas A&M); Elza Erkip (Poly), Aaron Wagner (Cornell) Web: Matthieu Bloch (GaTech) “Advisors”: Gerhard Kramer and Aylin Yener 8

Instructors Rich Baranuik [Padovani Lecturer] Bob Gray Sanjoy Mitter Emre Telatar 9 9

Summary and Outlook 2011: Things are on track. Fund raising in progress. Enthusiasm about the School is continuing to spread  Volunteers to organize future schools in North America: Cornell, Banff, Purdue… New school initiatives in other parts of the world, e.g. the week before ISIT 2011 in Oulu, Finland (Instructors: Gerhard Kramer, Bobak Nazer, Sennur Ulukus, Aylin Yener) 2011 European Winter School (March); next 2013. 10 10