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ISIT 2025

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory 2025 (ISIT 2025) will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Jun. 22 - 27, 2025.

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2025 Information Theory Workshop

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop 2025 (ITW 2025) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2025.

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ISTC 2025

The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC) will be held from Monday August 18th to Friday August 22, 2025, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Peter Shor

Shannon Award for 2025

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Peter Shor is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2025.

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Broadening Participation in the IT Society

The Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee introduces the new IT Society Volunteer website.

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Information Theory Society

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society is the premier professional society dedicated to the advancement of the mathematical underpinnings of information technology for the benefit of humanity. Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process.

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The Student and Outreach Subcommittee plans student and outreach activities at symposia and workshops.
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The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Newsletter connects our members and is published four times a year.  Beginning with the March 2022 issue, the Newsletter is online only.
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Upcoming Events

The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools
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26-26
Jun
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Deadline:
"Learn to Compress & Compress to Learn" Workshop @ ISIT 2025
This workshop aims to unite experts from machine learning, computer science, and information theory to delve into the dual themes of learning-based…
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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-…
Sydney is known for its stunning beaches, vibrant arts scenes, and world-famous landmarks like the Sydney Opera House.
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Oct
Sydney, Australia
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2025 Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Workshop (ITW) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Otc. 3, 2025.
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News

Live-Stream of Peter Shor's Shannon Lecture

This year's Shannon Lecture will be live-streamed via Zoom.

Jun 19, 2025
Matt LaFleur is back!

The Society welcomes Matt LaFleur as its new Business Operations Manager.

Jun 5, 2025
2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

2025 London Symposium on Information Theory and 2025 Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium,…

Jun 3, 2025
2025 James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars awarded to Peter Kairouz

The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding…

May 26, 2025
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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…

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…

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Jobs Board

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…

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…

May 29, 2025
Research Assistant in Information Theory x 3
University of Cambridge

Up to three Research Assistant positions to work on Shannon Theory at the University of Cambridge.

May 21, 2025
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Call to Action

Submit to Â鶹´«Ã½AV BITS the Information Theory Magazine

Â鶹´«Ã½AV BITS the Information Theory Magazine invites tutorial articles that provide a new perspective on traditional topics or on emerging and interdisciplinary areas.

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Submit to Â鶹´«Ã½AV Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT) covers various aspects of information theory and its applications, and accepts submissions in response to specific calls for papers.

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Recent Journal Issues

Â鶹´«Ã½AV BITS the Information Theory Magazine

BITS publishes tutorial articles on broad research areas viewed through an information-theoretic lens.
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Spring 2023 — Issue 1, Volume 3
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Fall 2022 — Issue 3, Volume 2
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Fall 2022 — Issue 2, Volume 2
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Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
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.
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
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.
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
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.
Â鶹´«Ã½AV JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Kitaev’s 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.
Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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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