Supporting Students Attending the Second Annual North American School of Information Theory

支持学生参加第二届北美信息论学院年度会议

• 批准号: 0952529
• 负责人: Randall Berry
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0952529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Students; Attending; Second; Annual

The Second Annual School of Information Theory to be held on August 9-13 at Northwestern University. Information theory provides the theoretical foundations for modern communication systems. This rich foundation has enabled dramatic performance improvements in both wire-line and wireless communication systems. In recent years, there has been much interest in building on these successes and extending information theoretic ideas to provide fundamental insight into the design of increasingly complex networks that are of critical importance both for military and civilian uses. Examples include communication systems such as Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs), wireless mesh networks and sensor networks as well as biological and social systems. With the goal of developing the next generation of information theorists, the first Annual School of information theory was held on June 2-5, 2008 at Penn State University. The school was very successful and provided nearly 100 graduate and postdoctoral students with an excellent platform where they were exposed to the state of the art in information theory. The Second Annual School of Information Theory will build on this success by exposing students to leading research in information theory through lectures by four leading figures in information theory and also by providing students the opportunity to discuss their own work and interact. This grant is providing travel support to make attending the school an affordable opportunity for graduate students and post docs from across the US.

第二届信息论学院年度会议将于 8 月 9 日至 13 日在西北大学举行。信息论为现代通信系统提供了理论基础。这一丰富的基础使得有线和无线通信系统的性能得到显着提高。 近年来，人们对在这些成功的基础上扩展信息论思想产生了浓厚的兴趣，以提供对日益复杂的网络设计的基本见解，这些网络对于军事和民用都至关重要。示例包括移动自组织网络 (MANET)、无线网状网络和传感器网络等通信系统以及生物和社会系统。 为了培养下一代信息理论家，第一届信息论年度学院于2008年6月2日至5日在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行。该学院非常成功，为近 100 名研究生和博士后学生提供了接触信息论最先进技术的绝佳平台。第二届年度信息论学院将在此成功的基础上，通过四位信息论领军人物的讲座，让学生接触信息论的前沿研究，并为学生提供讨论自己的工作和互动的机会。 这笔赠款将提供差旅支持，使美国各地的研究生和博士后能够负担得起就读学校的机会。