Welcome to ITW 2019 Visby, Gotland, Sweden, Aug 25-28

Bus Shuttle Airport to Visby center

On Sunday, Aug 25, there will be a bus shuttle service from Visby airport to Visby city free of charge for ITW participants. The bus will leave at 11:05 am, 1:00 pm, 3:30 pm, 6:05 pm, and 11:05 pm on Sunday, Aug 25. The bus of the company “Tottes Bussar Visby” will wait in front of the airport and will have a sign showing ITW 2019. The bus will go to “Donners plats” (Clarion Hotel and Donners Hotel) as well as Best Western Strand Hotel (Strandgatan 34). The maximum capacity of the bus is 49 seats.
Technical program is available

The IEEE Information Theory Workshop will be held in Visby, Gotland, Sweden, from the 25th to the 28th of August 2019.

The Hanseatic city Visby is located on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea. It is one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Scandinavia with its 3.4km long town wall and several church ruins in the old city center. Visby is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995 and Gotland is a very popular summer vacation destination for Scandinavians.

We seek original, unpublished contributions in all areas of information theory, including but not limited to the focus topics listed below.

  1. Modern Coding Theory

    Graph based codes and iterative decoding
    Spatially coupled codes
    Polar codes

  2. Security, Privacy, and Trust

    Physical layer security
    Private information retrieval
    Security and privacy in distributed storage
    Security and privacy in machine learning

  3. Cyber-Physical Systems

    Interaction of information and control
    Time-sensitive source and channel coding
    Networked control systems
    Entropy in control, dynamics, and information theory

In addition, papers that broaden the reach of information theory, including emerging fields and novel applications of information theory, are encouraged.

Important Dates

Date of submission: April 1, 2019  
April 14, 2019

Date of notification: June 10, 2019  
June 13, 2019

Camera ready paper due: July 1, 2019


We are looking forward to welcoming you in Visby!
The organization committee

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