The 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory will be held at the Acropolis Congress and Exhibition Center in Nice, France, from Sunday June 24 through Friday June 29, 2007. Nice is the main city of the world famous French Riviera (Côte d'Azur). It offers a unique blend of glamour, culture, sports, and recreation. Previously unpublished contributions across a broad range of topics in information theory are solicited, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

Submitted papers should be of sufficient detail for review by experts in the field. In addition to submitting new results in areas that form the core of information theory, researchers in related fields and researchers working on novel applications of information theory are encouraged to submit contributions. Final papers will be five pages in length. The submission deadline is January 8, 2007 (hard deadline!). Detailed information on paper submission, technical program, tutorials, travel, social programs, and travel grants will be posted on this web site.

Plenary speakers:

• Michelle Effros (Caltech): Network Source Coding: Pipe Dream or Promise?
• Shlomo Shamai (Technion): Reflections on the Gaussian Broadcast Channel: Progress and Challenges
• H. Vincent Poor (Princeton): Competition and Collaboration in Wireless Networks
• Emery Brown (MIT/Harvard): Signal Processing Algorithms to Decipher Brain Function

General co-chairs	Giuseppe Caire and Marc Fossorier
TPC co-chairs	Andrea Goldsmith, Muriel Medard, Amin Shokrollahi, and Ram Zamir
Local arrangements	Merouane Debbah
Finance	Joseph Boutros
Publicity	Mehul Motani
Publications	Jean-Claude Belfiore
Tutorials	Urbashi Mitra
Web site	Ulrich Speidel

Important dates

• January 8, 2007: deadline for paper submission (hard deadline!)
• March 25, 2007: notification of acceptance
• April 20, 2007: final paper upload
• April 30, 2007: extended early registration deadline

Direct enquiries to:

Giuseppe Caire EE Department University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 caire@usc.edu

Marc Fossorier EE Department University of Hawaii at Manoa 2540 Dole Street Honolulu, HI 96822 marc@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu

For questions or comments relating to the operation of this web site, please contact Ulrich Speidel. This web site is hosted courtesy of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.