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A summer school with two mini-courses in "Statistical Physics Methods in Coding and Information Theory" and "The Middle Path to Understand Complex Systems: A Mesoscopic Perspective on Network Dynamics" from June 16-19 at IIT Madras.

The paper submission deadline is 4 May 2014. See http://itw2014.jaist.ac.jp for details.

Registration for ISIT 2014 is now open at https://www2.securecms.com/ISIT2014/Registration.asp

The ����logo Awards Board seeks new volunteers to serve on its award selection committees and Awards Board standing committees.

Nominations are due 1 July 2014 for the 2015 ����logo Medals and Recognitions.

Hamed Hassani named recipient of the 2014 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for his dissertation, Polarization and Spatial Coupling: Two Techniques to Boost Performance.

Bruce Hajek named recipient of the 2014 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award for his longstanding contributions to the society.

ISITA2014 - the International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications - will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 26 to 29 October 2014. The submission deadline is April 6 (firm). For more details: http://www.isita2014.org/

The ����logo Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) is a recently launched flagship conference of the ����logo Signal Processing Society. It is made up of a series of symposia and workshops. GlobalSIP 2014 will focus broadly on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes.

The ����logo North American School of Information Theory is accepting applications.

The submission deadline for the 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, which will be held August 18 - 22 in Bremen, Germany, has been extended to April 6.

Paper submission is now open for ISITA 2014 in Melbourne, Australia from 26 to 29 October. The submission deadline is April 6. For more details: http://www.isita2014.org/

The deadline for poster submission is extended to March 10, 2014.

Due to many requests, we have decided to further extend the submission deadline for the JSAC special issue entitled "Wireless Communications Powered by Energy Harvesting and Wireless Energy Transfer” to be Apr. 1st, 2014. This is a hard deadline and no more extension will be given.

The Data Storage Technical Committee of ����logo Communications Society invites you to nominate or self-nominate papers for the 2013 Best Paper Award and the 2013 Best Student Paper Award.

The ����logo Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the ����logo IT Paper Award and the ����logo Joint Comsoc/IT Paper Award.

ITE is a recently released free and open source, multi-platform, Matlab/Octave toolbox that is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities, and kernels on distributions.

The 15th ����logo International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2014), which will be held in Toronto, Canada, June 22-25, 2014. The workshop is devoted to recent advances in signal processing for wireless communications, networking, and information theory. The technical program features plenary talks as well as invited and contributed poster papers. This year's SPAWC will also be co-located with North American School on Information Theory, June 18-21, 2014, which is a great opportunity for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Stanford Professor A.J. Paulraj Wins the 2014 Marconi Prize for his pioneering contributions to developing the theory and applications of MIMO antennas.