The 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009) will take place on October 11-16, 2009 in Taormina, Sicily, Italy. Taormina is a world-famous tourist resort, endowed with a rare charm and atmosphere, whose fame is strictly related to the strong peculiarity of its setting. The main reason is the numerous stratifications of civilizations that have followed each other here since the VIII century B.C. Taormina is about 50km from Catania International Airport, which offers direct flight connections to many Italian and European cities. The conference venue is the Hotel Villa Diodoro****, located near the Greek theatre.

Topics
The sessions of the workshop will cover the following topics:
Source coding
Distributed source and channel coding
Joint source and channel coding
Coding for wireless systems
Coding for sensor and ad-hoc networks
Coding and biology
MIMO and space-time coding
Graph-based codes and iterative decoding
Cooperation in wireless systems
Sequences and coding
Cryptography
Compressed sensing
Coding applications

Further information regarding the technical and social programs, workshop registration, and hotel accommodations
will be posted on the workshop website at: http://www.deis.unical.it/itw2009