2017 European School of Information Theory
May 8-11, 2017, Madrid, Spain

The European School of Information Theory (ESIT) is an annual educational event, organized by the IEEE Information Theory Society, for graduate students from institutes throughout Europe and beyond. Topics of this year's school include Shannon Theory, coding theory, source coding, sequential analysis and applied probability, among others. The scheduled tutorial lectures are: 

• Spatially coupled LDPC codes: from theory to practice
  Daniel J. Costello, Jr. (University of Notre Dame)
  
  
• Channel reliability: from ordinary to zero-error capacity
  Marco Dalai (University of Brescia)
  
  
• Fundamental limits in asynchronous communication
  Aslan Tchamkerten (Telecom ParisTech)
  
  
• Information-theoretic signal processing
  Ram Zamir (Tel Aviv University)

For more information about the school and registration to the event please visit the school's website:

http://www.itsoc.org/conferences/schools/european-school-2017

Registration

Early registration deadline has been extended. Registration for the 2017 European School of Information Theory  at an advanced rate can be done before April 7, 2017. Registration fee includes access to the technical activities and social program. The registration platform is accessible via the school’s website:

http://www.itsoc.org/conferences/schools/european-school-2017/registration

Organizing committee

Alfonso Martínez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Tobias Koch (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Pablo M. Olmos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)