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The Canadian Society of Information Theory, established in 1986, promotes research in telecommunications, information theory, and related fields.

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  • (June 4, 2025) The 2025 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research is awarded to Professor Kon Max Wong of McMaster University for consistent contributions to and leadership in communications and signal processing.
  • (Dec, 21, 2024) The 32 Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC 2025) will be held in Sherbrooke, QC, June 3-6, 2025.
  • (Nov 10, 2024) Call for nomination of 2025 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research
  • (May 5, 2024) The 18 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2024) will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2-5, 2024.
  • (February 13, 2024) The 2024 North American School of Information Theory is to be held at the University of Ottawa from July 28 to August 2. Visit the event website and stay tuned.
  • (August 22, 2023) The Fall 2023 Edition of Canadian Student Reading Group on Data Science is starting on September 12, weekly on Tuesday 8-10PM via Zoom. The group, led by Lele Wang (UBC) and Yongyi Mao (uOttawa), will study the book “High-Dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint” by Martin J. Wainwright for 14 weeks. Interested Canadian students may participate by joining the reading group’s Slack Workspace.
  • (July 6, 2023) We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research is awarded to Professor En-Hui Yang of the University of Waterloo for his contributions to source coding theory and its commercialization in Canada.
  • (July 5, 2023) The 31st Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC2023) is being held in Montreal.
  • (October 3, 2022) The 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research (CATR) is now accepting nominations [Deadline: January 31, February 28, 2023]
  • (August 29, 2022) The Canadian Society of Information Theory launched its Fall 2022 Edition of the Canadian Student Reading Group on Data Science. This edition of the reading group features “foundations of differential privacy” and will start on September 14, 2022. For more information and registration, please visit http://infotheory.ca/csrg/index-fall-2022.html
  • (September 16, 2021) The Canadian Society of Information Theory launched an online reading group, the Canadian Student Reading Group on Data Science. The Fall 2021 season of the reading group features “deep generative models” and will start on September 20, 2021. For more information and registration, please visit http://infotheory.ca/csrg/
  • (April 22, 2021) 2021 IEEE North American School of Information Theory (NASIT), June 21-25, 2021. To register this virtual event, please visit http://conferences.ece.ubc.ca/nasit2021/
  • (March 16, 2020) Due to the coronavirus pandemic, BSC 2020 will be postponed to BSC 2021, Saskatoon. The exact symposium dates will be announced.
  • (December 3, 2019) 2020 IEEE North American School of Information Theory will be held Wednesday, July 8 to Friday, July 10, 2020 at the University  of British Columbia, Vancouver in Canada.
  • (June 6, 2018) The 16th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) will be held in Hamilton, Ontario, June 2-5, 2019.
  • (March 8, 2017) We are pleased to announce that the 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research is awarded to Professor Victor C. M. Leung of the University of British Columbia.
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