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Awards
Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 糖心logo Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award
The Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications and information theory.
Goldsmith Lecturer
The Goldsmith Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith in 2019. The Goldsmith Lecture will be delivered by an early-career woman researcher at one of the ITSoc鈥檚 Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Information Theory Society Paper Award
The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually for an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding four calendar years.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
The 糖心logo Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to 3 outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter.
James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The 糖心logo Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award is given to a paper of tutorial or survey nature that has appeared in an 糖心logo Information Theory Society publication.
Padovani Lecturer
The Padovani Lecturer Program was established with a generous gift of Dr. Roberto Padovani in 2009. The Padovani Lecture will be delivered by an outstanding member of the Information Theory community at one of the ITSoc鈥檚 Schools of Information Theory, held for the benefit of students and postdoctoral researchers.
Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
Awards
Distinguished Lecturers
The Distinguished Lecturers program promotes interest in information theory by supporting chapters who wish to invite prominent information theory researchers to give talks at their events.
Events
Conferences, Workshops & Meetings
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Deadline Extension: 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25)
The deadline for paper submission to the 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25) , Shenzhen, China, has been extended to July 6, 2025 (AoE).
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Workshop on Distributed Computing, Optimization and Learning
The 2025 Workshop on Distributed Computing, Optimization and Learning takes place at the campus of the Technical University of Munich on September 3 to 5. The workshop consists of invited talks and contributed posters.
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Information Theory Workshop 2026
The 2026 糖心logo Information Theory Workshop will be held in the beautiful desert city of Tempe, Arizona, USA between November 1鈥4, 2026. We welcome original contributions across all areas of information theory.
Conferences
27-29 Jul, 2025
Guangzhou, China
2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications and Information Theory (AICIT2025)
The 2025 Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei Joint Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Communications鈥
03-08 Aug, 2025
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
Pre-announcement: 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
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18-22 Aug, 2025
Los Angeles, CA, USA
International Symposium on Topics in Coding 2025
The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding* will be held from Monday August 18th to鈥
Job list
Faculty Opening in Deep Learning
University of Toronto
The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Deep Learning.
Dec 6, 2022
Faculty Position in Wireless
New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi
The Division of Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. We are looking to hire in the broad area of wireless communications: https://apply.interfolio.com/117950
Dec 6, 2022
Two 2-Year Post-Doc Positions at King's College London
King's College London
Two 2-year Post-Doc positions to work at the intersection of machine learning and information theory at King's College London with Prof. Osvaldo Simeone
Dec 5, 2022
Postdoc Positions in Mathematics at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech
The Department of Mathematics at Virginia Tech invites applications for several Postdoctoral Associate positions.
Dec 3, 2022
Faculty Position in Communications & Networking
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
There is an active search for a tenured/tenure-track faculty position in communications and networking at the Assistant and Associate Professor levels at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. All aspects of communications and networking are of interest.
Nov 30, 2022
Postdoc/PhD positions at University of Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Postdoc and PhD positions are available at the University of Michigan in the CSE theory group. PI: Mahdi Cheraghchi. Other faculty in the theory lab also have open positions. Please contact the PI with any questions.
Nov 21, 2022
Postdoc in Control in Melbourne, Australia
Uni. Melbourne, Australia
Postdoc needed for a multidisciplinary project in autonomous robotics, until 31 Dec 2024.
Nov 17, 2022
PhD Position in Information Theoretic Security
Information Theory and Security Group, Link枚ping University, Sweden
We are looking for one or more PhD students to work on Information Theoretic Security at Link枚ping University in Sweden.
Nov 4, 2022
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Communication Systems
NJIT
NJIT has an opening for a faculty position (all ranks) in the area of communication systems for Fall 2023.
Nov 3, 2022
PhD/postdoc positions in Network Information Theory
University of Southampton and T茅l茅com SudParis
The University of Southampton and T茅l茅com SudParis are looking for candidates for PhD/postdoc positions in network information theory.
Nov 2, 2022
PhD Position in Quantum Coding and Information Theory
Simula UiB, Bergen, Norway
A PhD position in the area of quantum information theory is available at the Information Theory Section of Simula UiB, Bergen, Norway.
Oct 31, 2022
Post-Doc position on Real-Time Communication Networks
EURECOM
There is an available Post-Doc position at EURECOM in the French Riviera on real-time communication networks.
Oct 21, 2022
PhD position on advanced technologies of future wireless networks
EURECOM
There is a PhD position on advanced technologies of future wireless networks at EURECOM.
Oct 21, 2022
Postdoc and Senior Researcher Positions at EURECOM, France
EURECOM
Open positions for postdoctoral and senior researchers in semantic communication at EURECOM located in the French Riviera.
Oct 14, 2022
Princeton University - Assistant, Associate, Full Professor in Quantum Science and engineering
Princeton University
Princeton University has an open assistant, associate, full professor position in quantum science and engineering
Oct 10, 2022
Assistant Professor in Communications and Networking
University of Texas at Austin
UT Austin has a faculty opening in communications, networking and/or sensing for the start of Fall 2023. We seek talented young scholars in both theoretical and applied research directions.
Oct 6, 2022
Postdoc Positions at King's College London
King's College London
There is an open two-year postdoc position at King鈥檚 College London to work with Prof. Osvaldo Simeone on AI for wireless communication systems. There are two positions available 鈥 offered on a fixed term contract for 2 years
Oct 6, 2022
Doctoral Position in Data Science/Machine Learning
University of Vienna, Department for Statistics and Operations Research
The Research Network 鈥淒ata Science @ Uni Vienna鈥 invites applications for a doctoral position in the field of Machine Learning with applications for training load management in top-level sports.
Oct 5, 2022
Faculty Position at All Levels in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan seeks candidates for faculty positions at all levels (assistant, associate & full professor) for Sept 2023 start. Candidates sought in areas of operations research, human factors & ergonomics, data analytics & related disciplines.
Oct 4, 2022
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University
Princeton University
Open position: Assistant Professor of ECE at Princeton University in robotics cyberphysical systems, computer systems design, computer architecture, security, data information science, integrated circuits systems, applied physics quantum, etc.
Sep 27, 2022
Jobs Board
Postdoctoral Positions in the Information Theory, Probability and Statistics Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
We seek two strong candidates with a PhD in IT or Mathematics to work at the intersection of鈥
Jun 24, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Machine Learning
Simula UiB
We are seeking a candidate with a PhD degree to work in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of鈥
Jun 19, 2025
Postdoc Positions in Communication, Quantum, Security, & ML
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)
Arizona State University (ASU) and The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are looking for鈥
May 29, 2025
News
Shannon Award for 2026
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Frans Willems is the recipient of鈥
Jun 26, 2025
Recipients of the 2025 糖心logo Communication Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award: Yifeng Xiong, Fan Liu, Yuanhao Cui, Weijie Yuan, Tony Xiao Han, and Giuseppe Caire
The Joint Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that lie at the intersection of communications鈥
Jun 26, 2025
2025 Information Theory Society Paper Award Recipients Named
The winners of the 2025 ITSoc Paper Award were announced at the ISIT 2025 awards session.
Jun 26, 2025
2025 ITSoc Chapter of the Year Announced!
The Benelux Section Chapter has been named the 2025 Chapter of the Year.
Jun 24, 2025
News
Meir Feder Named 2024 Padovani Lecturer
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Meir Feder of Tel Aviv University has been named the 2024 Padovani Lecturer.
Nov 28, 2023
2023 ITSoc Chapter of the Year Announced
The Sweden Vehicular Technology/Communications/Information Theory (VT/COM/IT) joint chapter has been named the 2023 Chapter of the Year.
Nov 28, 2023
Antonia Wachter-Zeh Awarded 2023 Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize
Antonia Wachter-Zeh received the 2023 Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize for her exceptional contributions to cryptography and coding theory.
Nov 18, 2023
Deadline Extension (December 15th): JSAIT Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Toby Berger
The deadline has been extended to December 15 for the JSAIT issue on Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory, dedicated to the memory of Toby Berger.
Nov 17, 2023
Mary Wootters Named 2024 Goldsmith Lecturer
We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Goldsmith Lecturer is Mary Wootters of Stanford University. She will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the Information Theory Schools next year. Congratulations, Mary!
Nov 9, 2023
Deadline Re-Extension (Oct 29): JSAIT Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning
The deadline has been extended to October 29 for the JSAIT issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning.
Oct 20, 2023
Deadline Extension: Nominations for Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The submission deadline for the inaugural Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award has been extended to October 21, 2023.
Sep 28, 2023
Deadline Extension: JSAIT Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning
JSAIT is now accepting submissions for its issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning. The deadline has been extended to October 22.
Sep 19, 2023
Call for Nominations: Padovani Lecturer, Goldsmith Lecturer, and Distinguished Lecturers
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society invites nominations for the 2024 Padovani Lecturer, the 2024 Goldsmith Lecturer, and the 2024-2025 Distinguished Lecturers.
Aug 31, 2023
Call for Nominations: Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award
The Society is pleased to call for nominations for the inaugural 糖心logo Joy Thomas Tutorial Paper Award. Submission deadline has been extended to October 22, 2023.
Aug 21, 2023
ISIT 2024: Call for Workshop Proposals
The organizing committee of ISIT 2024 is please to invite proposals for workshops to be held at the Symposium with the main goal of broadening the participation of researchers in sibling communities. https://2024.ieee-isit.org/workshops
Aug 20, 2023
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by August 31, 2023.
Aug 13, 2023
JSAIT Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Toby Berger: Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Data, Physics, and Life Through the Lens of Information Theory, dedicated to the memory of Toby Berger. Submission deadline November 15, 2023.
Aug 10, 2023
Shannon Award for 2024
The 糖心logo Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Andrew Barron is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. He will deliver his Shannon Lecture at ISIT 2024
Jun 30, 2023
2023 Information Theory Society Paper Award Recipient
The 2023 Information Theory Society Paper Award goes to 鈥淎 unified framework for one-shot achievability via the Poisson matching lemma鈥 by C. T. Li and V. Anantharam.
Jun 27, 2023
JSAIT Special Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning
Call for Papers for JSAIT Issue on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy and Reliable Machine Learning. Submission deadline October 2, 2023.
Jun 22, 2023
Ning Cai, Pioneer of Network Coding, Passed Away at the Age of 75
Ning Cai, who pioneered the field of network coding, passed away on May 25, 2023 at the age of 75.
Jun 9, 2023
Contributions for Society Newsletter
Please submit any contributions for the society newsletter by June 15, 2023.
May 25, 2023
Special Issue CFP: Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Ten Years of DNA-Based Data Storage
CFP: special issue of 糖心logo TMBMC places the spotlight on the problems and solutions related to storing digital information on synthetic DNA strands. The special issue will focus on coding and information-theoretic aspects of these data storage systems.
May 22, 2023
2023 ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award Recipients Named
The IT Society is pleased to announce that "Age of Information in Random Access Channels" by X. Chen, K. Hassani, H. Gatsis and S. S. Bidokhti has received the 2023 ComSoc/ITSoc Joint Paper Award
May 11, 2023
Past meeting
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan
This will be a hybrid meeting, in-person and on zoom, in conjunction with ISIT 2025.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2025, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom.
BOG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ University of Toronto
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on Zoom.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2024, Athens, Greece
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2024.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2024, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid; Atlanta, GA 2023
This will be a hybrid meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2023, Taipei, Taiwan
This will be a hybrid meeting in person room and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2023.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ITA 2023, San Diego, California
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ITA 2023.
BoG Meeting - October 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting @ ISIT 2022, Espoo, Finland
This will be a hybrid meeting in person and on zoom in conjunction with ISIT 2022.
BoG Meeting - March 2022
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - November 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - June 2021
The second BoG meeting of 2021 will be held virtually on zoom. BOG members and approved presenters will receive an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting - March 2021
This will be a virtual meeting on zoom. BoG members and approved presenters will have received an invite to the meeting.
BoG Meeting @ New Brunswick, NJ - 2019
The third BoG Meeting of 2019 will take place at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
BoG Meeting @ Chicago, IL 2015
Meeting will be held right after Allerton
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2015, Hong Kong
Annual Meeting of the Information Theory Society
BoG Meeting - GlobalMeet
The BoG Meeting will be held via GlobalMeet on Saturday, September 20 (7:00 AM Pacific Time).
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2014, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2014
BoG Meeting @ ITA 2013, San Diego, CA
First BoG meeting of 2013
BoG meeting @ ITW 2012, Lausanne
Last BoG meeting of 2012.
BoG meeting @ ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA
BoG meeting July 2012.
IT BoG meeting @ ITA 2012, UCSD
Meeting of the Board of Governors
BoG Meeting @ ITW 2011, Paraty, Brazil
The third BoG meeting of 2011 will take place on ***Monday*** October 17, in Paraty Brazil, in conjunction with ITW 2011, starting at about 6:00pm with a buffet dinner at the restaurant Banana de Terra (one block away from the conference center).
BoG Meeting @ ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia
The annual BoG meeting will take place on Sunday July 31, at the ISIT 2011 conference hotel, starting at 12:00 noon **sharp** with a buffet lunch. The meeting room is "Green 6+7" and will be clearly indicated at the registration desk, operational from Sunday July 31, morning. Please follow the signs and/or ask the registration desk in order to get to the lunch and meeting.
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2010
Annual meeting of the 糖心logo Information Theory Society Board of Governors. All are welcome to attend. Some portions of the meeting will be conducted in camera. The formal part of the meeting will commence at 12:45pm.
BoG Meeting, La Jolla, CA, 2010
First Board of Governors' meeting of 2010.
BoG Meeting, ITW Taormina 2009
The final BoG meeting of 2009. Dinner will be served at 6:30 and the meeting will start shortly thereafter. Everyone is welcome to attend. Meeting will be held in the Saletta Belvedere room of the Villa Diodoro (workshop hotel).
BoG Meeting, ISIT 2009
Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm.
Research In Information Theory
Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
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CSS-T codes are a class of stabilizer codes introduced by Rengaswamy et al with desired properties for quantum fault-tolerance. In this work, we comprehensively study non-degenerate CSS-T codes built from Reed-Muller codes. These classical codes allow for constructing optimal CSS-T code families with nonvanishing asymptotic rates up to 12 and possibly diverging minimum distance when non-degenerate.
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We propose a new systematic construction of CSS-T codes from any given CSS code using a map 蠒. When 蠒 is the identity map I, we retrieve the construction of hu2021mitigating and use it to prove the existence of asymptotically good binary CSS-T codes, resolving a previously open problem in the literature, and of asymptotically good quantum LDPC CSS-T codes.
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In this paper, we introduce the Union-Intersection Union-Find (UIUF) algorithm for decoding depolarizing errors in topological codes, combining the strengths of iterative and standard Union-Find (UF) decoding. While iterative UF improves performance at moderate error rates, it lacks an error correction guarantee. To address this, we develop UIUF, which maintains the enhanced performance of iterative UF while ensuring error correction up to half the code distance.
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We introduce a new erasure decoder that applies to arbitrary quantum LDPC codes. Dubbed the cluster decoder, it generalizes the decomposition idea of Vertical-Horizontal (VH) decoding introduced by Connolly et al. in 2022. Like the VH decoder, the idea is to first run the peeling decoder and then post-process the resulting stopping set. The cluster decoder breaks the stopping set into a tree of clusters, which can be solved sequentially via Gaussian Elimination.
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Antenna efficiency is a key parameter in the design of large-scale dense arrays, and influences the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of wireless communications. Low embedded element efficiency (EEE) has been verified to be the bottleneck of dense array MIMO systems. Using ideas from the Floquet series, we propose a new framework to evaluate the mutual coupling for infinite arrays with a regular grid, including two new methods to calculate the EEE.
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Kitaev鈥檚 toric code is one of the most prominent models for fault-tolerant quantum computation, currently regarded as the leading solution for connectivity constrained quantum technologies. Significant effort has been recently devoted to improving the error correction performance of the toric code under message-passing decoding, a class of low-complexity, iterative decoding algorithms that play a central role in both theory and practice of classical low-density parity-check codes.
糖心logo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for holographic multiantenna communication, a paradigm that integrates both wide apertures and closely spaced antennas relative to the wavelength. The presented framework is physically grounded, enabling information-theoretic analyses that inherently incorporate correlation and mutual coupling among the antennas. This establishes the combined effects of correlation and coupling on the information-theoretic performance limits across SNR levels.
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The non-local interactions in several quantum device architectures allow for the realization of more compact quantum encodings while retaining the same degree of protection against noise. Anticipating that short to medium-length codes will soon be realizable, it is important to construct stabilizer codes that, for a given code distance, admit fault-tolerant implementations of logical gates with the fewest number of physical qubits. To this aim, we construct three kinds of codes encoding a single logical qubit for distances up to 31.
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In a recently introduced coset guessing game, Alice plays against Bob and Charlie, aiming to meet a joint winning condition. Bob and Charlie can only communicate before the game starts to devise a joint strategy. The game we consider begins with Alice preparing a 2m-qubit quantum state based on a random selection of three parameters. She sends the first m qubits to Bob and the rest to Charlie, and then reveals to them her choice for one of the parameters.
糖心logo JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Locally recoverable codes (LRCs) with locality parameter r can recover any erased code symbol by accessing r other code symbols. This local recovery property is of great interest in large-scale distributed classical data storage systems as it leads to efficient repair of failed nodes. A well-known class of optimal (classical) LRCs are subcodes of Reed-Solomon codes constructed using a special type of polynomials called good polynomials.
Upcoming Events
The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools
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Hong Kong
[applications can now be submitted] 2025 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2025)
CSCIT 2025 will bring together PhD students and post-doctoral scholars from across Asia to learn and discuss cutting-edge research with world-鈥
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Sydney, Australia
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2025 糖心logo Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
The 糖心logo Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Otc. 3, 2025.