The IEEE Information Theory Workshops (ITWs) are among the most prestigious, high-impact conferences in information theory and theoretical communications worldwide. The 2010 ITW is hosted by Claude Shannon Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Coding, Cryptography, and Information Security and the University of Dublin, Ireland. The University and the Institute assembled one of several most active research groups in Coding and Information Theory in the world, on a par with University of California at San Diego, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), and Nanyang University in Singapore. The ITWs enjoy technical sponsorship of the IEEE through its information theory society and access to the IEEE advertising and publication infrastructure. The 2010 Dublin ITW facilitates collaboration and the exchange of ideas between US students and researchers and experts from Europe and Asia whose participation is expected to rise because of the selection of plenary speakers and the invited sessions.
IEEE Information Theory workshops form an ongoing series of major international conferences organized by the IEEE Information Theory Society and devoted to a range of topics in Information Theory selected by the organizers. The purpose of ITWs is to review current trends in a sub-area of information theory that currently experiences rapid development. The 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, August 30 - September 3, 2010 featured several invited talks, invited and contributed sessions. The keynote talks of the workshop covered such recently developed topics as polar codes and applications of semidefinite programming in coding theory as well as local testability of properties of finite objects and algebaric aspects of cryptography. The invited sessions were devoted to information theory (channels with unknown or varying parameters), information-theoretic cryptography, and error-correcting coding. The workshop program also included a number of sessions formed of contributed talks that covered a broad range of resent results in communication theory, information theory and error-correcting coding. The proceedings of the workshop were published by IEEE Press and are available online. At the time of writing this report, the web site www.itw-2010.org contains abstracts of all the talks presented at the workshop as well as other information about the meeting. The award supported participation of graduate students and postdocs in the 2010 ITW. The total number of individuals supported by this project was about 15.
