Information Theory Society Student Committee Meeting ISIT 2006 Seattle, WA

Committee Overview Formed in summer 2005 to make the society of more benefit to its student members Structure Chair: Andrea Goldsmith Student Chairs: Ivana Maric and Brooke Shrader Volunteer Coordinator: Lalitha Sankar Website: Sergio Servetto, Cong Shen, Amin Mobasher Advisory committee of regular members Other volunteers for outreach, website development, contests, and other activities

Website: http://itsoc-students.ece.cornell.edu/ Website Links (~1000 hits since April) Committee panels (audio tape) Getting started on research: book/paper links, etc. Dissertation abstracts Job opportunities Upcoming conferences and events Linked to other useful sites (e.g. UCSD IT tutorials) Would like to post Shannon lectures/plenary talks Working to make it more interactive Ease student postings, research discussions, etc. Volunteers: amin@cst.uwaterloo.ca

Mailing List: itsoc-students-L@cornell.edu. Subscription-based (anyone can join) Used to make announcements, solicit ideas, generate discussions, etc. Participation from many countries (e.g. North America, Europe, India, and Iran) Would like to make it more interactive and informative

Committee Activities To Date Regular meetings at ISIT, CISS, and Allerton Committee update, panel sessions, and other events. ISIT’05: Q&A with IT BOG Allerton’05: “What's Hot, What's Not, What's Changed" with El Gamal, Kumar, Mitter, Javidi, Franceschetti, and Ziv. CISS’06: “Academic vs. Research Jobs: Tales from the front lines” with Galli, Poor, Rose, Soljanin IT Newsletter Articles Student Questionnaire Outreach/University Interface T-Shirt Design Contest (Winner: Ivana Maric)

Two Events at ISIT’06 Round Table Research Lunch (Monday) 6 “hot” research topics at 6 tables MIMO BC capacity and ST coding; Capacity with Feedback; Cooperation and Relaying; Network Coding; and Secrecy System Capacity. Student-leaders to facilitate discussion Relevant papers posted in advance Yahoo discussion group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/itsoc Committee Meeting and Panel (Now) Free lunch/T-shirts to all attendees and panelists HOT!

New Initiatives ISIT Best Student Paper Award Free ISIT Tutorials to IT Student Members Reduced ISIT Registration for Local Students Reduced IT Membership for ISIT attendees BOG: Elliott Bay Room, 1:30 Other Ideas???

We Need You!!!! Your time, your energy, and your bright ideas! General: andrea@ee.stanford.edu Volunteer: lalitha@winmain.rutgers.edu

“How to find, formulate, and Today’s Panel: “How to find, formulate, and solve an IT problem” Rob Calderbank Tom Cover Michelle Effros Tony Ephremides Ralf Koetter Alon Orlitsky

New ideas WikipediaIT: steal and/or create Wikipedia for IT topics. Research forum: chat groups for discussions on particular topics.