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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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!

7. 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: 7 7

8. 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

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

10. 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