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Proposal: Second Annual School of Information Theory. Aylin Yener, Penn State Presented at the BoG meeting, UIUC. School took place in the first week of June 2008. Background: First Annual School of Information Theory. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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September 23, 2008 A. Yener 1
Proposal: Second Annual School of Information Theory
Aylin Yener, Penn State
Presented at the BoG meeting, UIUC
September 23, 2008 A. Yener 2
School took place in the firstweek of June 2008
Background: First Annual School of Information Theory
• European Winter School in Coding & Information Theory has existed since the early 1990s
• Purpose: an event where students can get to know each other outside of “large” events
• The idea of having a School inNorth America began in late 2006
• IEEE Information Theory SocietyBoG supported the idea
• Preparations for the Penn StateUniversity event began in Sept. 2007
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Attendance Statistics for 2008
• Over 150 student applicants • Student Attendance: 101 • Senior attendees (including
instructors): 13
• IT Society: 20k• DARPA: 10k• Penn State (total): 6k• Princeton: 3k
Support for 2008
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Budget Details for 2008
• 114 total attendees, no registration fee.
• Classrooms: free of charge.• Remainder of 39k dispersed as travel
grants.
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Food total $13,094Banquet dinner $ 4,213
Reception $ 2,199Misc. expenses (posters, photos, tapes,...)
$ 4,000
Instructor lodging $ 955Instructor transportation $ 2,300Travel grants $12,239Total $39,000
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Next Stop is…• Chicago
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Organizing Committee for 2009
• Aylin Yener, Penn State• Gerhard Kramer, Bell Labs (USC)• Daniela Tuninetti, UIC• Randy Berry Northwestern• Dongning Guo, Northwestern• Yalin Sagduyu, Northwestern• Matthieu Bloch, Notre Dame• TBA• TBA• TBA
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From the proposal (Sept 07) School of Information Theory:Our way to pay it forward to our society’s future generations
• Lectures by renowned members of our society.
• Students interact with their peers.• Students interact with senior
scientists and get feedback on their work.
• Students get exposed to contextand “big picture” early on.
• The school will help foster friendships and collaboration for future academic and industrial scientists and promote IT.
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Observations from the First Annual School of Information Theory:
• Lectures generated much excitement, and plenty of questions.
• Students interacted with their peers and with the senior attendees extensively.
• Student presentations were well prepared and enthusiastically delivered.
• Exit survey ratings were great• We are confident that the school
helps foster friendships and collaboration for future academic and industrial scientists and promote IT.
• Bottomline: Model is working well.
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Goals and Procedure: same as 2008!
• Any graduate student or post-doc eligible to apply
• Students apply for the school with their presentation/poster title
• Students will each give a 10min talk or present a poster.
• Cap:100 students • No registration Fee • Ideally: NO COST to attendees• Reality: As allowed by travel grants• New for 2009: Lodging available in
the dorms.
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Calendar, Location for 2009
The Second Annual School of Information Theory is planned to take place August 2, Sunday – August 6, Thursday 2009 at the Northwestern University Campus, Evanston IL.
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Northwestern University• Located in Evanston, the first suburb
north of Chicago (about 30 minutes to downtown Chicago).
• 240-acre campus on Lake Michigan.• Easy access to public transportation
and 30 minute cab ride from O’hare International Airport.
• Classrooms available for free.
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Northwestern University- Lodging Options• Room and board packages
from NWU dorms available: $100/day including all three meals
• Hotel rates in the vicinity runs about $120-200/day for August 2-7, 2009(2-3 students can share the room)
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Useful points summary• Dorm rooms, including meals, and
reasonable hotels available on or close to campus.
• Classrooms/auditoriums for free.• We’ll make every effort to keep the
misc expenses as well as food/break costs down.
• Limit the number of students to 100.
• Instructors (TBA): We’ll use exit survey data from 2008 (suggested instructors)
• Topics: TBA (sufficiently different from 08): potential examples: source coding, networking.
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2009 Schedule August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6
Opening remarks 3X90min Lectures TBA
(2 breaks, lunch)
3X90min Lectures TBA
(2 breaks, lunch)
Keynote: TBA Student presentations 10:00-12:00
Panel:TBA
Student Presentations 3:30-6pm
Barbecue 7-9:00pm
2X90 Lectures: TBA(1break, lunch)Student presentations 1pm-6pm
Student presentations4-6pm
Student presentations4-6pm
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2009 Budget (100 students) • Lunches total: $ 8000• Wednesday Barbecue $ 3500 (with lots of veggie options )• Breaks: $ 4000• Breakfasts total: $ 4500• Food total $20000• Easels,poster boards,badges, registration packets,
mutimedia… $ 4000• Instructor travel support $ 3500• Contingency $ 2500• $ 30000
• Not including student travel grants.• Students pay for lodging and dinners.
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Potential Sponsors for 2009
• Society.• NSF for student travel
grants.• Local IEEE chapter.• Motorola.
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Second Annual School of Information Theory (2009)
• We request $20k from the society to cover the expenses and provide travel grants with the remaining funds if any.