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2025 Information Theory Workshop

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Workshop 2025 (ITW 2025) will be held in Sydney, Australia, Sep. 29 - Oct. 3, 2025.

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ISTC 2025

The 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC) will be held from Monday August 18th to Friday August 22, 2025, on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Frans Willems

Shannon Award for 2026

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society is pleased to announce that Frans Willems is the recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2026.

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Broadening Participation in the IT Society

The Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee introduces the new IT Society Volunteer website.

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Information Theory Society

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society is the premier professional society dedicated to the advancement of the mathematical underpinnings of information technology for the benefit of humanity. Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process.

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Upcoming Events

The Information Theory Society's upcoming conferences, workshops and schools
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The University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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The 11th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications(IWSDA'25)
The 11th International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications(IWSDA'25) will be held at The University of Melbourne,…
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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ USA Virtual Career Fair

A nationwide, virtual recruitment event connecting students, young professionals, and members with…

Oct 8, 2025
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Day Offer - Discount ITSoc membership

In celebration of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Day, take advantage of an exclusive offer available for first-time ITSoc…

Oct 7, 2025
Election of Members to the Board of Governors for a Three-Year Term 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2028

Voting is now open to society members for the Board of Governors (2026-2028) Election

Sep 22, 2025
2025 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award Recipients Named

The three winning papers were announced during the banquet at ISIT 2025.

Jul 17, 2025
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Conferences

Nov 08, 2025
The Cornell Club - New York, 6 East 44th Street New York, NY 10017
BoG Meeting - Hybrid Meeting, NYC - November 2025

20-23 Oct, 2025
Shenzhen, China
Deadline Extension: 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT'25)

The deadline for paper submission to the 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and…

20-23 Oct, 2025
Shenzhen, China
CFP - 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory

The inaugural Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT) will take…

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Jobs Board

Posdoctoral Researcher Position in Information and/or Communication Theory
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

We want to work with the leading information and communication theorists at TU Dortmund - Lehrstuhl…

Oct 3, 2025
PhD Position in Information and Communication Theory
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

We are looking for a PhD student to join us as a full-time research and teaching assistant at TU…

Oct 3, 2025
Post-doctoral researcher positions available within ERC Starting Grant project LESYNCH
Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST - University of Lisbon

Post-doctoral researcher positions are available within João Ribeiro's ERC StG project on the…

Sep 23, 2025
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Call to Action

Submit to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ BITS the Information Theory Magazine

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ BITS the Information Theory Magazine invites tutorial articles that provide a new perspective on traditional topics or on emerging and interdisciplinary areas.

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Submit to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory (JSAIT) covers various aspects of information theory and its applications, and accepts submissions in response to specific calls for papers.

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Recent Journal Issues

Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ BITS the Information Theory Magazine

BITS publishes tutorial articles on broad research areas viewed through an information-theoretic lens.
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Spring 2023 — Issue 1, Volume 3
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Fall 2022 — Issue 3, Volume 2
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Fall 2022 — Issue 2, Volume 2
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Research In Information Theory

Selected papers on information theory from our journals and conferences
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
This paper presents constructions of DNA codes that satisfy biological and combinatorial constraints for DNA-based data storage systems. We introduce an algorithm that generates DNA blocks containing sequences that meet the required constraints for DNA codes. The constructed DNA sequences satisfy biological constraints: balanced GC-content, avoidance of secondary structures, and prevention of homopolymer runs.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
DNA-based data storage systems face practical challenges due to the high cost of DNA synthesis. A strategy to address the problem entails encoding data via topological modifications of the DNA sugar-phosphate backbone. The DNA Punchcards system, which introduces nicks (cuts) in the DNA backbone, encodes only one bit per nicking site, limiting density. We propose DNA Tails, a storage paradigm that encodes nonbinary symbols at nicking sites by growing enzymatically synthesized single-stranded DNA of varied lengths.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
The number of zeros and the number of ones in a binary string are referred to as the composition of the string, and the prefix-suffix compositions of a string are a multiset formed by the compositions of the prefixes and suffixes of all possible lengths of the string. In this work, we present binary codes of length n in which every codeword can be efficiently reconstructed from its erroneous prefix-suffix compositions with at most t composition errors.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
This paper studies two problems that are motivated by the novel recent approach of composite DNA that takes advantage of the DNA synthesis property which generates a huge number of copies for every synthesized strand. Under this paradigm, every composite symbols does not store a single nucleotide but a mixture of the four DNA nucleotides. The first problem studies the expected number of strand reads in order to decode a composite strand or a group of composite strands.
Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ JSAIT on the Information Theory Magazine
Synchronization errors, arising from both synthesis and sequencing noise, present a fundamental challenge in DNA-based data storage systems. These errors are often modeled as insertion-deletion-substitution (IDS) channels, for which maximum-likelihood decoding is quite computationally expensive. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach based on neural polar decoders (NPDs) to design decoders with reduced complexity for channels with synchronization errors.

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