ITW 2009 - Taormina, SicilySan Domenico Palace Hotel***** 11-16 October 2009

Organization

• General co-chairs: Ezio Biglieri and Emanuele Viterbo

• TPC co-chairs: Dan Costello and Alex Grant

• Finance chair: Giorgio Taricco

• Pubblications chair: Elza Erkip

• Local arrangements: Gianluca Aloi

• Publicity chair: Yi Hong• Secretariat: Stilema

ITW 2009 - Taormina, SicilySan Domenico Palace Hotel

Technical program (TBD)• Source coding (lossless and lossy compression, universal coding) • Distributed source and channel coding • Joint source-channel coding • Coding for wireless systems • Coding for sensor and ad-hoc networks • Coding and biology • MIMO and Space-Time coding • Graph codes and iterative decoding • Cooperation in wireless • Sequences and coding • Cryptography • Compressed sensing • Other applications of coding

ITW 2009 - Taormina, SicilySan Domenico Palace Hotel

ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily

Preliminary Budget

• Early Registration: 540 EU

• Late Registration: 660 EU

• Students: 220 EU

• Target number of participants: 120

• Including: – Welcome Party + Banquet + Coffee breaks– CD Proceedings + bag etc. – Secretariat: Registration+hotel management

ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily

ITW 2009 - Taormina, SicilySan Domenico Palace Hotel

ITW 2009 - Taormina, SicilySan Domenico Palace Hotel

Hotel approximate prices• San Domenico Hotel*****: 350/260/180 EU• Hotel Villa Paradiso****: 148/135/- EU• Bristol Park Hotel****: 113/82/- EU• Hotel Monte Tauro****: 225/-/- EU• Teodomus Hotel***: 119/-/- EU• Hotel Isabella***: 113/82/- EU• Hotel Vello d’Oro***: 110/-/- EU• Hotel Condor**: 80/-/- EU• Hotel Soleado**: 69/-/- EU

(Double room for two / Double room for one / Single room)

ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily

ITW 2009 - Taormina, Sicily