{"id":64,"date":"2016-10-09T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T13:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:38:08","slug":"catr-call-for-nominations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/catr-call-for-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"CATR: Call for Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/csit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-136 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/csit-300x33.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Call for Nominations of 2025 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Canadian Award for\u00a0Telecommunications Research (CATR) is awarded biennially, recognizing\u00a0distinguished\u00a0contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the\u00a0field of telecommunications. The scope of the\u00a0award includes information\u00a0theory, communication theory, networking, and signal processing with\u00a0application to\u00a0communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We solicit nominations of individuals with\u00a0outstanding records of achievement. Nominations shall consist of:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A detailed CV for the candidate;<\/li>\n<li>Letters from at least three referees, preferably at arm\u2019s length from the nominee;<\/li>\n<li>A written statement summarizing the candidate\u2019s accomplishments, putting them in the wider context of contemporary research, and a citation of no more than 25 words.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more detailed information and CATR and the award procedures, please refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/CATR-Award-Procedures_Version_2022_Approved.pdf\">the official CATR document<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The award will be announced at BSC 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nominations shall be addressed by the deadline of <strong><del>January 31<\/del> February 28, 2025<\/strong>\u00a0to:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anas Chaaban (email: achaab01@mail.ubc.ca),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Secretary, CATR award\u00a0committee<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Inquiries about the\u00a0award should be addressed to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yongyi Mao (email: ymao@uottawa.ca),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Chair, CATR award committee<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This year the award committee consists of<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Professors En-Hui Yang (University of Waterloo)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sorina Dumitrescu (McMaster University)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Masoud Ardakani (University of Alberta)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Secretary of CSIT)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa, President of CSIT)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">For complete award\u00a0procedures and names of past winners, please see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/canadian-award-for-telecommunications-research-catr\/\"><span class=\"s4\">http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/canadian-award-for-telecommunications-research-catr\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Nominations of 2025 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research The Canadian Award for\u00a0Telecommunications Research (CATR) is awarded biennially, recognizing\u00a0distinguished\u00a0contributions made by an individual in Canada to research in the\u00a0field of telecommunications. The scope of the\u00a0award includes information\u00a0theory, communication theory, networking, and signal processing with\u00a0application to\u00a0communications. We solicit nominations of individuals with\u00a0outstanding records of achievement. &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/catr-call-for-nominations\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-infotheory","post-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}