The Organizing Committee is proud to announce the participation of the following plenary speakers:

• Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) - Shannon Lecture.
  EE Dept. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
  From Constrained Signaling to Network Interference Alignment via an Information-Estimation Perspective


• Erdal Arikan, Bilkent University, Turkey - Polar Coding: Status and Prospects
• Zhanna Reznikova, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch RAS and Novosibirsk State University, Russia - Ants and Bits
• Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University, USA - Algorithms, Combinatorics, Information, and Beyond
• Vladimir Tikhomirov, Moscow State University, Russia - Entropy in Information Theory and Functional Analysis