91³Ô¹ÏÍø

FIRST 91³Ô¹ÏÍø SEMINAR ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN INFORMATION THEORY AND COMMUNICATIONS

2nd AFRICAN WINTER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION THEORY AND COMMUNICATIONS

August 16-21, 2015 Protea Hotel Kruger Gate Skukuza, South Africa

Call for Participation

It is our pleasure to announce the First 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Seminar on Future Directions in Information Theory and Communications to be held at the Kruger National Park from 16 to 21 August, 2015.

Internationally acclaimed researchers in Information Theory and Communications will be invited to present seminars.. The seminars and discussions will be a forum for bringing together several leading researchers in Information Theory in a relaxed setting to explore future directions.

This event will be held in parallel with the 2nd African Winter School on Information Theory and Communications (see next page for details). The goal of holding the two events in parallel is to stimulate interest in Information Theory amongst young academics and researchers as well as to increase co-operation and knowledge sharing between leading international researchers,
African students and universities.

All international researchers in Information Theory as well as study leaders, doctoral students and young staff members from Africa, are encouraged to participate in order to establish more high-level co-operation between African universities and international researchers.

Speakers

Invited Speakers confirmed to date include:

• Jeff Andrews, University of Texas at Austin, USA and
  Chair Future Directions Committee, 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society
• Andrew Jiang, Texas A&M University, USA
• Emanuele Viterbo, Monash University, Australia
• Tadashi Wadayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
• Hirosuko Yamamoto, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Frans Willems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Organizing Committee

Conference Chair:
Hendrik C. Ferreira (University of Johannesburg)
TPC Co-chairs:
A. J. Han Vinck (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Hiroyoshi Morita (The University of Electro- Communications)

International Advisory Panel:
Jeffrey Andrews (University of Texas)
Daniel Costello (University of Notre Dame)
Kees Immink (Turing Machines)
Gerhard Kramer (Technical University of Munich)
Local Arrangements: Wendy Smith (University of Johannesburg)
Allan Emleh (University of Johannesburg)
Lucia Pelser (University of Johannesburg)