ADVANCE PROGRAM

2001 IEEE
International Symposium
on Information Theory

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Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
June 24 - June 29, 2001

Sponsored by
the IEEE Information Theory Society

2001 INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION THEORY

Omni Shoreham Hotel
Washington, D.C.
June 24 - June 29, 2001

ADVANCE PROGRAM

General Co-Chairmen:
Prof. Thomas Fuja
Prof. Prakash Narayan

Finance:
Roger Hammons

Publications:
Bill Byrne
Arnab Das
Sanjeev Khudanpur

Publicity:
Geoffrey C. Orsak

Registration:
Mustafa Eroz

Local Arrangements:
Jerome Gansman
Damianos Karakos
Haralabos Papadopoulos
Adrian Papamarcou
Nikos Sidiropoulos
Leandros Tassiulas

Webmaster:
Mark M. Westerman

Program Committee
Neri Merhav (Co-Chairman)
Shlomo Shamai (Co-Chairman)


Yair Be'ery Ian Blake Giuseppe Caire Philip Chou Daniel Costello Imre Csiszár Amir Dembo Dariush Divsalar Yariv Ephraim Elza Erkip Tuvi Etzion Meir Feder	Lorenzo Finesso David Forney Bruce Hajek Steven Hanly Alexander Holevo Amos Lapidoth Simon Litsyn Armand Makowski Ueli Maurer Vincent Poor Bixio Rimoldi Ron Roth Serap Savari	Paul Siegel Emina Soljanin Yossef Steinberg Emre Telatar David Tse Rudy Urbanke Santosh Venkatesh Sergio Verdú Bin Yu Ram Zamir Zhen Zhang Jacob Ziv

GENERAL INFORMATION

Place and date
The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT2001) will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., from June 24 through June 29, 2001.

Plenary talks

The 2001 Shannon Lecture will be given by:
Prof. Jack K. Wolf
University of California at San Diego

In addition, there will four plenary lectures at the 2001 ISIT. These lectures will be delivered by:

Prof. Frederick Jelinek
Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Robert McEliece
California Institute of Technology

Prof. Michael Rabin
Harvard University

Prof. Benjamin Weiss
Hebrew University

Technical Program
As usual, the technical program will cover interesting and important recent advances across all subfields of Information Theory. For ISIT2001, all technical talks will be limited to 20 minutes. On Friday, there will be a farewell reception in the afternoon, 1:00 - 2:30.

Language
The official conference language is English. All presentations will be in English, and no translation service will be available.

Web Site
www.seas.smu.edu/ISIT2001

Travel

Accommodation
The hotel for the conference is The Omni Shoreham Hotel located at:

2500 Calvert Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20008
Phone: (202) 234-0700
Fax: (202) 265-7972

Information concerning altenative accomodations can be found here.

ON-SITE REGISTRATION

Sunday, June 24

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Welcoming Reception - Sunday, June 24
Awards Luncheon - Tuesday, June 26
Banquet - Thursday, June 28
Farewell Reception - Friday, June 29

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration fee

Registration Categories


On/Before 30 April 2001	After 30 April 2001
IEEE Member	$450	$525
Non-Member (Registration Only)	$525	$625
Non-Member (Registration + Half-Year IEEE/IT Society Membership)	$550	$650
IEEE Student/Life Member	$150	$200

Payment
Credit cards accepted are: Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and Diner's Club. Other forms of payment are personal check or wire transfer. See the registration form for more details.

Cancellations