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Dear PhD students and postdoctoral scholars,

We are very happy to announce theÌý2023 Croucher Summer Course in Information Theory (CSCIT 2023)Ìýwhich will be held in the week of 14-18 August 2023 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

CSCIT 2023 features five stellar speakers, who will be speaking on a diverse array of topics in information theory, computer science, and machine learning.

Arnab Bhattacharyya (National University of Singapore)
Topic: Learning and inference from confounded and biased data

Irit Dinur (Weizman Institute of Science, Israel)
Topic: Expanders in high dimensions

Lara Dolecek (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
Topic: Channel coding for sampling channels with applications to blockchains

Farzan Farnia (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Topic: Information theory and adversarial machine learning

Amin Gohari (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Topic: The auxiliary receiver approach in network information theory

Given that all pandemic-related measures have been lifted in Hong Kong, CSCIT 2023 will be a completely in-person event, with room for 15 local and 30 non-local participants from Asia.

The registration fee is HKD 1500 HKD (approximately USD 190) and includes the following: participation in all summer school activities, a shared room in a CUHK student dormitory for 6 nights (Sunday, 13 August 2023, to Saturday, 19 August 2023), breakfast, lunches and refreshments (Monday to Friday), and 3 evening meals (on the nights with group activities).

Participants may apply for financial support in the form of a (partial) reimbursement of the registration and/or travel costs.

Application deadline: 30 April 2023, 23:59 (HKT).

Notification of Acceptance: 1-15 June 2023.

Application details:

Best regards,
Pascal Vontobel, CUHK, Director CSCIT 2023
Sid Jaggi, University of Bristol, Co-Director CSCIT 2023
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