1. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily San Domenico Palace Hotel***** 11-16 October 2009

2. Organization General co-chairs: Ezio Biglieri and Emanuele Viterbo TPC co-chairs: Dan Costello and Alex Grant Finance chair: Giorgio Taricco Pubblications chair: Elza Erkip Local arrangements: Gianluca Aloi Publicity chair: Yi Hong Secretariat: Stilema

3. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily San Domenico Palace Hotel

4. Technical program (TBD) Source coding (lossless and lossy compression, universal coding) Distributed source and channel coding Joint source-channel coding Coding for wireless systems Coding for sensor and ad-hoc networks Coding and biology MIMO and Space-Time coding Graph codes and iterative decoding Cooperation in wireless Sequences and coding Cryptography Compressed sensing Other applications of coding

5. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily San Domenico Palace Hotel

6. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily

7. Preliminary Budget Early Registration: 540 EU Late Registration: 660 EU Students: 220 EU Target number of participants: 120 Including: –Welcome Party + Banquet + Coffee breaks –CD Proceedings + bag etc. –Secretariat: Registration+hotel management

8. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily

9. San Domenico Palace Hotel

10. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily San Domenico Palace Hotel

11. Hotel approximate prices San Domenico Hotel*****: 350/260/180 EU Hotel Villa Paradiso****: 148/135/- EU Bristol Park Hotel****: 113/82/- EU Hotel Monte Tauro****: 225/-/- EU Teodomus Hotel***: 119/-/- EU Hotel Isabella***: 113/82/- EU Hotel Vello d’Oro***: 110/-/- EU Hotel Condor**: 80/-/- EU Hotel Soleado**: 69/-/- EU (Double room for two / Double room for one / Single room)

12. ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily