2021 IEEE North American School of Information Theory
About the School
The 2021 IEEE North American School of Information Theory will be held Monday, June 21 through Friday, June 25 2021.
This will be the 13th Annual North American School of Information Theory and follows a series of events designed to provide graduate students with opportunities to:
Learn from senior lecturers in the field who will present long-format tutorials;
Participate in a stimulating and inviting forum of scientists;
Present their own work for feedback and potential collaboration;
Deepen their connections with the community.
Program
The school will be a virtual event held over five days and will consists of
Senior lecturers presenting long-format (2 1/2 hour) tutorials;
Students presenting their own work in poster sessions.
Lecturers
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Tutorial 1:
Prof. Wei Yu, University of Toronto
Massive Random Access and Massive MIMO
Tutorial 2:
Prof. Negar Kiyavash, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Causal Inference
Tutorial 3:
Prof. Michelle Effros, California Institute of Technology
Network Information Theory
Tutorial 4:
Prof. Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo
Post-quantum Cryptography From the Learning with Errors Problem
Tutorial 5:
Prof. Lizhong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Understanding Deep Learning With an Information Geometric Method
Tutorial 6:
Prof. David Tse, Stanford University, Padovani Lecturer for 2020
Operating Blockchains at Physical Limits
Program Organizers
Prof. Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, General Co-chair
Prof. Lele Wang, University of British Columbia, General Co-chair
Prof. Ian Blake, University of British Columbia, Advisor
Prof. Anas Chaaban, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Treasurer
Prof. Yu Xiang, University of Utah, NSF Travel Grants Chair
Prof. Robert Rohling, ICICS, University of British Columbia, Liaison
Prof. Brian Marcus, PIMS, University of British Columbia, Liaison
Prof. Ozgur Yilmaz, PIMS, University of British Columbia, Liaison
Prof. Kevin Leyton-Brown, CAIDA, University of British Columbia, Liaison
Prof. Mark Schmidt, CAIDA, University of British Columbia, Liaison
Prof. Chen Feng, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Liaison
Prof. Aaron Gulliver, University of Victoria, Liaison
Prof. Jie Liang, Simon Fraser University, Liaison
Past Schools
Sponsors / Partners
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