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I have two openings for PhD students in my group in the Electrical Engineering Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). One opening is in the fields of Network Information Theory, Network Coding, Index Coding and a second in the study of dimension reduction and "core-sets" in the context of Big Data analysis.

Manuscripts are solicited for a Proceedings of the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Special issue on 'Foundations and Applications of Science of Information'. Manuscript deadline is August 31, 2015.

The 2016 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Technical Field Award Recipients were announced this week.

The organizers of ITW 2015 in Jerusalem have uploaded a number of photos and video from the workshop, including a panel on the history of information theory with Anthony Ephremides, Robert Gallager, Andrew Viterbi, G. David Forney, Sergio Verdú, and Jacob Ziv.

The 2015 North American School of Information Theory (NASIT) will be held on August 10-13, 2015, at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla.

Prof. Namrata Vaswani (http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~namrata) is looking for a postdoc and/or Ph.D. student. Her research lies at the intersection of signal/information processing and machine learning for high dimensional problems. In recent years, her group has worked on developing and analyzing online algorithms for various high-dimensional structured data recovery problems such as online sparse matrix recovery (recursive recovery of sparse vector sequences) or dynamic compressed sensing, online robust principal components' analysis (PCA) and online matrix completion, sparse PCA etc.

Dr. Carlos R. P. Hartmann's tribute

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Several videos produced by Women in Information Theory (WITHITS) are now available online.

Call for nominations for 2014 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Data Storage Technical Committee (a) Best paper award (b) Best student paper award Nomination deadline: June 30th 2015

Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished results in information theory for the Recent Results Poster Session.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of green networking and communication for 5G cellular networks.

Information Theorist Robert Ash passed away on April 15, 2015, after being struck by a car while crossing the street in Urbana, IL.

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

Two PhD positions are now available in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems at Tel Aviv University, Israel, in the fields of information theory and interactive communications. Starting immediately for up to two years. Funded by the European Research Committee (ERC).

91³Ô¹ÏÍø Information Theory Society Newsletter: call for contributions.