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 inqui ...

and

information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and Claude Shannon in the 1940s. ...

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

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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, enginee ...

, Tehran, Iran from Wednesday May 8 to Thursday May 9, 2013. Prof. Gerhard Kramer from Technische Universität München 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 university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

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

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 (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 (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 and Prof. Raymond Yeung.

Scope

The scope of the workshop includes the following topics: * Shannon Theory: including Complexity theory, Information theoretic security, 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 studied ...

: 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, by finding solutions to underdetermined linear systems. This ...

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 compressio ...

, and Network coding. * 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 sound, images, and scientific measurements. Signal processing techniques are used to optimize transmissions, ...

statistics Statistics (from German: '' Statistik'', "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, indust ...

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 ...

External links

Workshop website

References

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