The "Information: Theory and Applications" (ITA) workshop is a multidisciplinary meeting of academic and industrial researchers applying theory to diverse scientific and technological disciplines. Unlike most conferences, ITA presentations are by invitation only. Speakers are encouraged to present their best and most accessible work of the year, regardless of whether it appeared elsewhere. Instead of plenary talks, ITA features plenary sessions, where prominent researchers present complimentary views of timely topics. Students present at poster sessions with catered lunch, and outstanding graduating students and postdocs selected by their home institutions present at Graduation Day, with awards for the best received talks.
ITA strives to innovate, and aims to bring students, researchers, and faculty together via ice-breaking, networking, and social events. It keeps the participants sated via catered breakfasts and 2-3 lunches, and morning, afternoon, and evening refreshments.
If you are interested in participation in ITA 2023, presenting a talk, organizing a session, or organizing a social event, please write to us at ita@ucsd.edu.
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Ivan Bajic
Yuval Cassuto
Yongjune Kim
Salman Avestimehr
Kamalika Chaudhuri
Suhas Diggavi
Ayfer Ozgur
Sriram Vishwanath
Tsung-Ting Kuo
Sanmi Koyejo
Pouria Saidi
Lalitha Sankar
Ramya Korlakai Vinayak
James Anderson
Takashi Tanaka
Kaiqing Zhang
Mihailo Jovanovic
Jason Marden
Bahman Gharesifard
Dileep Kalathil
Samet Oymak
Stephen Tu
Yingying Li
Nikolai Matni
Ahmed Arafa
Melih Bastopcu
Yin Sun
Hamed Hasani
Pariskhit Gopalan
Yao Qin
Ludwig Schmidt
Vitaly Feldman
Badih Ghazi
Janardhan Kulkarni
Vahab Mirrokni
Tianyi Chen
Mahdi Soltanolkotabi
César A Uribe
Mahnoosh Alizadeh
Tamer Basar
Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Babak Hassibi
R. Srikant
Aryan Mokhtari
Ramtin Pedarsani
Thinh Doan
Aritra Mitra
Abolfazl Hashemi
Girish Nair
Audra Mcmillan
Meisam Razaviyayn
Abhradeep Thakurtha
Ananda Theertha Suresh
Ahmad Beirami
Jaroslaw Blasiok
Flavio Calmon
Vatsal Sharan
Chuan Guo
Adel Javanmard
Oliver Koust
Ravi Tandon
Viveck Cadambe
Mario Diaz
Berk Ustun
Hilal Asi
Sunday, February 12th | |
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6:30 AM | Reception, Harborside - just south of Tower 1 towards Tower 3 |
Wednesday, February 15th | |
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8:00 AM | Breakfast, at Krishna Lounge |
9:00 AM | Graduation Day Presentations, at Cat, Barbie and Ken |
10:20 AM | Break, refreshments |
10:40 AM | Graduation Day Presentations, at Cat, Barbie and Ken |
12:00 PM | Graduation Day Posters, at Mac (outdoor terrace between towers 1 and 3), catered lunch |
2:00 PM | Plenary: Quantum Computing — Umesh Vazirani, Geoff Penington, Henry Yuen, at Barbie and Ken |
3:00 PM | Break, light refreshments |
3:45 PM | Start Your Own Open-AI, Quinn Li, Meir Feder, Sriram Vishwanath, Experienced Experts Discuss Starting Tech Companies, at Barbie and Ken |
4:45 PM | Break, on your own |
6:00 PM | Banquet: Dinner and Entertainment, ticket required, at Cheese(Harborside, between towers 1 and 3) |
9:30 PM | End |
Friday, February 17th | |
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8:00 AM | Breakfast |
9:00 AM | Sessions: Privacy and Security in Machine Learning; Fairness and Robustness in Machine Learning 2; Trustworthy Machine Learning; Distributed Learning & Decision Making 3; Distributed Learning; Statistics and Learning Theory |
10:20 AM | Break, refreshments |
10:40 AM | Sessions : Differential Privacy 2; Game Theory 1; Optimization; Robust Learning in Presence of Adversaries; Optimal Algorithms and Generative Modelling; Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning |
12:00 PM | Student Posters, catered lunch |
2:00 PM | Plenary: Machine Learning Applications — Vahab Mirrokni, Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sebastien Bubeck |
3:15 PM | Break, light refreshments |
3:30 PM | Sessions : Information-Theoretic Tools for Trustworthy ML ; Game Theory 2; Deep Learning and Optimization; Distributed Learning & Decision Making 4 |
4:50 PM | Farewell Bash, Food and Goodbye |
6:00 PM | End |
Location Location Location
The Wyndham is exquisitely located on San Diego’s thriving waterfront with spectacular views, a stone throw away from many of San Diego’s best known attractions and restaurants. All rooms are similarly sized and with balconies, they differ mainly in the view. Standard rooms face a courtyard or pool $155, Skyline view rooms face a modern high-rise neighborhood $170, Bay view rooms have spectacular views of the SD Bay, marina, airport, and Coronado Island $185. Please book soon Block rates no longer available. Please email us for further information., especially if you would like to stay over Presidents’ weekend, reservations cancellable up to three days prior to arrival.
Christina Fragouli
Matthieu Bloch
Alhussein Abouzeid & Alfred Hero
Saturday 2/8, 8:30 - 4:00, at the Catamaran. Registration required.
Daybreak
Nightcap
Reception
IT-Session Lunch
(for Attendees Only)
Graduation
Lunch
Banquet
Poster Lunch
Farewell
The ITA workshop and community are built upon the core values of collegiality, support, and dignity for all, and we endorse the conference codes of conduct adopted by the ACM, IEEE, and the Information Theory Society. Disrespectful, offensive, and inappropriate behavior is not welcome at our events. If you observe such behavior, please inform one of our staff or email us at ita@ucsd.edu.
Social Events
To mark Valentine’s Day week, we will hold several activities that bring together students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty, foster new friendships and research collaborations, and facilitate employment and mentorship opportunities.