The Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) ( fa, کارگاه ملی نظریه اطلاعات و مخابرات ) is an international academic workshop that is held annually in one of the Iranian University campuses. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers in frontiers of

communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

and

information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...

worldwide to share and engage in various research activities. IWCIT features world-class speakers, plenary talks and technical sessions on a diverse range of topics in communication and information theory. IWCIT is the only workshop in Iran with an emphasis on information theory, and is one of the three events that is supported by the related scientific chapter in

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

Iran section. This workshop is included in the

Conference Publications Program (CPP).

History

2013

The First Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT) took place at

Sharif University of Technology Sharif University of Technology (SUT; fa, دانشگاه صنعتی شریف) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. It is widely considered as the nation's most prestigious and leading institution for science, technology, engineering, ...

, Tehran, Iran from Wednesday May 8 to Thursday May 9, 2013. Prof. Gerhard Kramer from

Technische Universität München The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

was the Keynote Speaker at IWCIT 2013.

2014

The 2nd IWCIT took place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran from Wednesday May 7 to Thursday May 8, 2014. Distinguished Keynote Speakers at IWCIT 2014 were Prof. Behnaam Aazhang (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

), Prof. David Tse (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

), Prof. Robert Schober (Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Gerhard Kramer (Institute for Communications Engineering,

2015

The 3rd IWCIT took place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran from Wednesday May 6 to Thursday May 7, 2015. Distinguished Keynote Speakers at IWCIT 2015 included Prof.

Imre Csiszár Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual award given in the field of information theory. He was born on Februa ...

(Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Prof. Gerhard Kramer (Institute for Communications Engineering, Technische Universität München), Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Prof.

Giuseppe Caire Giuseppe Caire (born 1965 in Turin) is an Italian telecommunications engineer. Career Caire received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1990, his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1992 ...

(Technical University of Berlin, Germany).

2016

The 4th IWCIT took place at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran on Tuesday May 3 and Wednesday May 4, 2016. The keynote speakers of the workshop were Prof.

Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books, i ...

and Prof. Raymond Yeung.

Scope

The scope of the workshop includes the following topics: * Shannon Theory: including Complexity theory,

Information theoretic security A cryptosystem is considered to have information-theoretic security (also called unconditional security) if the system is secure against adversaries with unlimited computing resources and time. In contrast, a system which depends on the computatio ...

, Multi-terminal information theory and

Quantum information theory Quantum information is the information of the quantum state, state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information re ...

Communication Theory Communication theory is a proposed description of communication phenomena, the relationships among them, a storyline describing these relationships, and an argument for these three elements. Communication theory provides a way of talking about a ...

: including Cognitive radio systems, Cooperative communications, Network resource sharing and scheduling, Molecular and Nano communications, and Optical and Quantum communication theory *

Coding Theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are stud ...

: including

Compressed sensing Compressed sensing (also known as compressive sensing, compressive sampling, or sparse sampling) is a signal processing technique for efficiently acquiring and reconstructing a Signal (electronics), signal, by finding solutions to Underdetermined ...

Data compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression ...

, and

Network coding In computer networking, linear network coding is a program in which intermediate nodes transmit data from source nodes to sink nodes by means of linear combinations. Linear network coding may be used to improve a network's throughput, efficiency, ...

. * Applications of Information Theory: information theory in learning, data mining,

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniq ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

and

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

External links

Workshop website

References

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