The IEEE European School of Information Theory (ESIT) is an annual educational event organized by the IEEE Information Theory Society for graduate students from institutes throughout Europe and beyond.

The objective of the school is to provide participants with the opportunity:

- to learn from distinguished lecturers by attending long-format (3 hour) tutorials;

- to present their own work to obtain feedback and to start up collaborations;

- to hear about applications of information theory in industry;

- to participate in a stimulating and inviting forum of scientists.

The 2025 edition of the IEEE European School of Information Theory, organized by the Italy Section Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society in collaboration with the COST Action 6G-PHYSEC (CA22168), will be held in Ancona, Italy, from May 4th to May 9th, 2025. The venue will be the Domus Stella Maris, Via di Colle Ameno 5, Ancona (Italy). The school is also part of the activities of Mission 6 – PhD Programs of the RESTART project, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).

This year’s topics of the school include Shannon and coding theory, physical layer security, code-based cryptography, cloud-integrated networks, artificial intelligence and continual learning, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and integrated sensing and communication. The school features two types of lectures: tutorial lectures, delivered in the morning and having a duration of 3 hours, and lightning lectures, delivered in the afternoon and having a duration of 1 hour. Tutorial lectures provide the student with a comprehensive introduction to a topic, covering its several facets and most promising research directions. Lightning lectures, instead, address a more specific research problem discussing cutting-edge solutions and techniques.

One of the goals of the IEEE European School of Information Theory is to promote interaction and collaboration among students. To this end, all students will have the possibility to present their work in dedicated poster sessions. Students who have just started their doctoral studies and have not yet obtained publishable results may also present the topic chosen for their thesis (including state-of-the-art and preliminary results).

Registration: https://r8.ieee.org/italy-its/ieee-esit-2025