1. 2013 SCHOOL OF INFORMATION THEORY PURDUE UNIVERSITY – CENTER FOR SCIENCE OF INFORMATION

2. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair: Wojciech Szpankowski Program Committee: Andrea Goldsmith, Sergio Verdu, Deepak Kumar, Olgica Milenkovic, Todd Coleman, Mark D. Ward Local Arrangements: Brent Ladd, Barbara Gibson Publicity and Web: Mike Atwell Advisors: Gerhard Kramer, Aylin Yener, Abbas El Gamal

3. LOGISTICS 2013 School proposed to be hosted in West Lafayette on Purdue campus Organized by Center for the Science of Information (http://soihub.org )http://soihub.org Dates: June 4-7, 2013 Applications due: March 15 th 2013 Decisions: March 22 nd 2013 Registration by April 15 th 2013 Website: http://www.itsoc.org/school2013

4. FORMAT IN 2013 Theme: Towards integrating time, space, structure, and semantics in the flow of information.  2 days Core IT  2 days Interdisciplinary topics that bridge information theory with biology, knowledge extraction, and quantum information theory  Diversity workshop Padovani Lecturer: TBD Other Speakers: TBD Ask that School be registered with IEEE as a conference Purdue Dorms  Dorms will act like hotel registration:  Students register with dorm and provide credit card backup.  If no show (15-day cancellation), student is fined.  Students post-billed once checkout.

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6. FUNDRAISING In previous years:  2008: $39k (ITSOC, DARPA, Univ.; 101 students)  2009: $58K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 141 students)  2010: $61K (ITSOC, DARPA/ARO, NSF, Univ.; 178 students)  2011: $62K (ITSOC, NSF, Univ., CSoI, ARO/ARL: 180 students)  2012: $44K (ITSOC, NSF, Univ., CSoI, IBM, Cornell, ARO/ARL; 111 students) Estimate the school budget for 2013 will be $65K Will approach NSF & ARO/ARL as in past years, IBM, etc– assistance appreciated

7. REQUEST FOR FUNDS We respectfully ask for $25K from the ITSOC Motion: that the ITSOC support the 2013 School of Information Theory with a grant of $25k