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DESCRIPTION:The University of Melbourne will be hosting the 2026 IEEE Austr
 alian Information Theory School (AusITS) from Monday\, Feb 16th to Thursda
 y\, Feb 19th in Melbourne\, VIC\, Australia.\n\nThe school will provide gr
 aduate students and postdoctoral researchers with the opportunity to engag
 e with leading experts in Information Theory\, Communication Theory\, and 
 Machine Learning through short lectures\, as well as the chance to present
  their own work.\n\nGraduate students and postdoctoral researchers in Aust
 ralia and New Zealand working on problems in information/communication the
 ory and machine learning are encouraged to apply with the title and a shor
 t abstract of a poster that they would like to present.\n\nEarly bird fee:
  AUD $125 (before 16 January 2026)\n\nNormal fee: AUD $160 (from 17 Januar
 y 2026)\n\nWith the generous support of the IEEE\, a limited number of dis
 counted rooms are available at Graduate House.\n\nCo-sponsored by: Dept. E
 lectrical &amp; Electronic Engineering and School of Computing &amp; Information S
 ystems\, The University of Melbourne\n\nAgenda: \nhttps://sites.google.com
 /view/2026ausits/program-abstracts-slides\n\nMelbourne\, Victoria\, Austra
 lia
LOCATION:Melbourne\, Victoria\, Australia
ORGANIZER:jingge.zhu@unimelb.edu.au
SEQUENCE:25
SUMMARY:Australian Information Theory School
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/523294
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  baseline\;&quot;&gt;The University of Melbourne will be hosting the 2026 IEEE Aus
 tralian Information Theory School (AusITS) from Monday\, Feb 16th to Thurs
 day\, Feb 19th in Melbourne\, VIC\, Australia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;\
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 ign: baseline\;&quot;&gt; through short lectures\, as well as the chance to presen
 t their own work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;zfr3Q CDt4Ke &quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;li
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 olor: #212121\; font-family: Arial\; font-size: 12.0pt\; font-weight: 400\
 ; vertical-align: baseline\;&quot;&gt;Graduate students and postdoctoral researche
 rs in Australia and New Zealand working on problems in information/communi
 cation theory and machine learning are encouraged to apply with the title 
 and a short abstract of a poster that they would like to present.&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/
 span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p class=&quot;zfr3Q CDt4Ke &quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;background-color: tra
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 align: baseline\;&quot;&gt;Early bird fee:&amp;nbsp\; AUD $125 (before 16 January 2026
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 ght: 400\; vertical-align: baseline\;&quot;&gt;With the generous support of the IE
 EE\, a limited number of discounted rooms are available at Graduate House.
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