General Co-Chairs

Thomas E. Fuja
Department of Electrical Engg.
University of Norte Dame
272 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
tfuja@nd.edu
Phone: (219) 631-7244
FAX: (219) 631-4393

Anurag Kumar
Department of Elec. Comm. Engg.
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, India.
anurag@ece.iisc.ernet.in
Phone: (91)-80-360 0855
FAX:(91)-80-360 0991

Technical Co-Chairs

Prakash Narayan
University of Maryland, USA
prakash@eng.umd.edu

B. Sundar Rajan
Indian Institute of Science, India
bsrajan@ece.iisc.ernet.in

Local Arrangements

Vijay Bhargava
University of Victoria, Canada
bhargava@engr.uvic.ca

Vinod Sharma
Indian Institute of Science, India
vinod@ece.iisc.ernet.in

Treasurer

Marc Fossorier
University of Hawaii, USA
marc@aravis.eng.hawaii.edu

The 2002 IEEE Information Theory Workshop will be held at the Windsor Manor Sheraton Hotel, Bangalore, India. The workshop will begin on Sunday, October 20, 2002 and end on Friday, October 25, 2002.

There will be seven half-day sessions featuring invited speakers; these sessions will be organized around the seven topics listed below.

There will also be two plenary talks.

There will be approximately fifteen contributed papers in addition to the papers included in the invited sessions; papers presenting new results in the above areas are hereby solicited. The deadline for submission has been extended to June 1, 2002. The contributed papers that cannot be accommodated will be considered as recent results.

Papers presenting recent results in any topic area of interest to the information theory community are solicited. The one-page summaries of the recent results will be published for those received before July 1,2002; however, on-site recent result contributions will be accepted.

Further Information including submission guidelines and contact information will soon be available at the ITW 2002 website: