The Fourth Workshop on Information Theoretic Methods in Science and Engineering (WITMSE 2011) will take place in Helsinki on August 7-10, 2011. The workshop covers hot topics at the intersection of statistics, information theory, machine learning, and their applications. The technical program will include plenary lectures and invited talks. 

Important dates

• Early registration deadline: July 1, 2011
• Banquet registration deadline: July 27, 2011
• Workshop dates, August

Plenary speakers

• Mati Wax, Wavion Wireless Networks
• Antonio Galves, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Neri Merhav, Technion, Israel

Organization

Honorary chair:

• Jorma Rissanen, Tampere University of Technology, and HIIT

Programme co-chairs:

• Petri Myllymäki, University of Helsinki
• Teemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• Ioan Tabus, Tampere University of Technology
• Kenji Yamanishi, University of Tokyo

The workshop is hosted by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Helsinki, and by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, and is sponsored by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.

For more information, contact Teemu Roos or Petri Myllymäki, orsend e-mail to witmse2011@helsinki.fi.