General
Monday and Tuesday will focus on information theory and communications, while Thursday and Friday will center on signal processing, machine learning, bioinformatics, statistics, and related disciplines.

Special presentations
Keynote (Wednesday)

Sparse sampling: variations on a theme by Shannon
Martin Vetterli, EPFL

Tutorials (Thursday, Friday)

Compressed sensing
Emmanuel Candes, Caltech

Signal processing for integrative bioinformatics
Al Hero, University of Michigan

Visual recognition: why, how, when
Pietro Perona, Caltech

Multimedia retrieval: audio, speech, images and video
Malcolm Slaney, Yahoo Research

Deadlines

11/26	Monday	Paper titles
12/16	Sunday	Open problems
12/21	Friday	Registration
01/01	Tuesday	Final papers

Sessions and events
Reception (Sunday evening)

Open problems (Monday)

Please contribute

Relief (Tuesday)

Who wants to be a researchaire?
Ruediger Urbanke, EPFL

Graduation day (Wednesday)

Graduating students and postdocs

Banquet (Wednesday)

World music by scientific talent