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.  This year's school is taking place in Madrid, Spain, a city offering historical sites, sprawling museums and traditional restaurants where tourists and locals meet alike. The school  venue  is the Marqués de Villafranca Palace, headquarters of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, located in the historical center of Madrid.

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)

Registration

Registration fee includes access to the technical activities and social program. Registration at an advanced rate can be done before March 31, 2017.

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