{"id":2,"date":"2015-09-17T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:37:13","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Society of Information Theory, established in 1986, promotes research in telecommunications, information theory, and related fields.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research conferences produced by the Society:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/canadian-workshop-on-information-theory-cwit\/\">Canadian Workshop on Information Theory<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/people.ece.ubc.ca\/~cwit\/\">CWIT 2024<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/biennial-symposium-on-communications-bsc\/\">Biennial Symposium on Communications<\/a>\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/bsc2025\/\">BSC 2025<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/catr-call-for-nominations\/\">Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/about-the-society\/\">About the Canadian Society of Information Theory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><em>(Nov 28, 2025)<\/em> The 19 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (<a href=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/\">CWIT 2026<\/a>) will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-10, 2026. <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CWIT_CFA_2026.pdf\">Call for Abstract<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>(June 4, 2025)<\/em> 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.<\/li>\n<li><em>(Dec, 21, 2024)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/bsc2025\/\">The 32 Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC 2025)<\/a> will be held in Sherbrooke, QC, June 3-6, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><em>(Nov 10, 2024)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/catr-call-for-nominations\/\">Call for nomination of 2025 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>(May 5, 2024)<\/em> The 18 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (<a href=\"https:\/\/people.ece.ubc.ca\/~cwit\/\">CWIT 2024<\/a>) will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2-5, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><em>(February 13, 2024)<\/em> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/nasit2024\">event website<\/a> and stay tuned.<\/li>\n<li><em>(August 22, 2023)<\/em> 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 &#8220;High-Dimensional Statistics: A Non-Asymptotic Viewpoint&#8221; by Martin J. Wainwright for 14 weeks. Interested Canadian students may participate by joining the reading group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/join.slack.com\/t\/canadianstude-ox96679\/shared_invite\/zt-21t1uncwj-2pJh9aFGoedUnjUrPmdU4Q\">Slack Workspace<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>(July 6, 2023)<\/em> We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research is awarded to <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/electrical-computer-engineering\/profile\/ehyang\">Professor En-Hui Yang<\/a> of the University of Waterloo for his contributions to source coding theory and its commercialization in Canada.<\/li>\n<li><em>(July 5, 2023)<\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/bsc2023\/\">31st Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC2023)<\/a> is being held in Montreal.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>(October 3, 2022)<\/em> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 2023 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research (CATR) is now accepting nominations [Deadline: <del>January 31<\/del>, February 28, 2023]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>(August 29, 2022)<\/em> 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 &#8220;foundations of differential privacy&#8221; and will start on September 14, 2022. For more information and registration, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/csrg\/index-fall-2022.html\">http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/csrg\/index-fall-2022.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>(September 16, 2021)<\/em>\u00a0The Canadian Society of Information Theory launched an online reading group,\u00a0the Canadian Student Reading Group on Data Science. The Fall 2021 season of the reading group features &#8220;deep generative models&#8221; and will start on September 20, 2021. For more information and\u00a0registration, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/csrg\/\">http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/csrg\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>(April 22, 2021)<\/em> 2021 IEEE North American School of Information Theory (NASIT), June 21-25, 2021. To register this virtual event, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/conferences.ece.ubc.ca\/nasit2021\/\">http:\/\/conferences.ece.ubc.ca\/nasit2021\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>(March 16, 2020) <\/em>Due to the coronavirus pandemic, BSC 2020 will be postponed to BSC 2021, Saskatoon. The exact symposium dates will be announced.<\/li>\n<li><em>(December 3, 2019) <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2020_nasit.pdf\">2020 IEEE North American School of Information Theory<\/a> will be held Wednesday, July 8 to Friday, July 10, 2020 at the University\u00a0 of British Columbia, Vancouver in Canada.<\/li>\n<li><em>(June 6, 2018)<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2019\/\">The 16th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT)<\/a> will be held in Hamilton, Ontario, June 2-5, 2019.<\/li>\n<li><em>(March 8, 2017)<\/em> We are pleased to announce that the 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research is <a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/76-2\/\">awarded to Professor Victor C. M. Leung<\/a> of the University of British Columbia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/news\/\">More news &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Society of Information Theory, established in 1986, promotes research in telecommunications, information theory, and related fields. Research conferences produced by the Society: Canadian Workshop on Information Theory [CWIT 2024] Biennial Symposium on Communications\u00a0[BSC 2025] Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research\u00a0 About the Canadian Society of Information Theory News (Nov 28, 2025) The 19 Canadian &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-infotheory","post-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotheory.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}