Sunday June 7

8.15-8.45 AM	Registration
8.45-8.50 AM	Opening remarks	Dmitry Trukhachev, General Chair
8.50-10.50 AM	Tutorial 1: Casting Error-Correction Decoding as a Convex Optimization Problem, and Building Efficient Solvers	Stark Draper, University of Toronto
10.50-11.20 AM	Coffee break
11.20 AM-12.20 PM	S1: Technical Session	Information Theory
12.20-1.20 PM	Lunch Break
1.20 PM-3.20 PM	Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO: From Antenna Array to Information Theory	Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa
3.20-3.50 PM	Break
3.30-5.50 PM	Tutorial 3: Information-Theoretic Analysis for Generalization of Learning Algorithms	Ziqiao Wang, Tongji University
6.00-10.00 PM	Welcome Reception	Black Sheep Restaurant (Tentative)

Monday June 8

8.15-8.45 AM	Registration
8.45-8.50 AM	Announcements
8.50-9.50 AM	Keynote 1: Can We Learn from Learned Error-Correcting Codes?	Natasha Devroye, University of Illinois Chicago
9.50-10.20 AM	Coffee break
10.20 AM-12.20 PM	M1: Technical Session	Error-Correction Codes
12.20-1.20 PM	Lunch Break
1.20 PM – 2.20 PM	Keynote 2: Quantization for LLMs and matrix multiplication	Yury Polyanskiy, MIT
2.20-3.20 PM	M2: Technical Session	Optical Communications and Related Topics
3.20-3.50 PM	Break
3.50-5.50 PM	M3: Invited and Technical Session	Compressed Sensing and Information Theory

Tuesday June 9

8.30-8.45 AM	Registration
8.45-8.50 AM	Announcements
8.50-9.50 AM	Keynote 3: Error-Correction for Nanopore Readouts: From Contextual Deletions to Substring Permutations	Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
9.50-10.20 AM	Coffee break
10.20 AM-12.30 PM	T1: Invited and Technical Session	Information Theory and Machine Learning
12.30-1.30 PM	Lunch Break
1.30-2.30 PM	Keynote 4: Diffusion Models Through the Lens of Information Theory	Henry Pfister, Duke University
2.30-3.30 PM	Canadian IT Society Meeting
3.30- 3.50 PM	Break
3.50-5.50 PM	Student Competition
6.30-10.00 PM	Banquet	Marriott Harbourfront

Wednesday June 10

8.30-8.45 AM	Registration
8.45-8.50 AM	Announcements
8.50-10.50 AM	Tutorial 4: Polar Decoders in Silicon: From Algorithms to Architectures	Warren Gross, McGill University
10.50-11.20 AM	Coffee break
11.20 AM – 12.40 PM	W1: Technical Session	Cryptography Molecular Communications and Information Theory
12.40-1.40 PM	Lunch Break
1.40 PM – 3.20 PM	W2: Technical Session	Wireless Communications
3.20-3.50 PM	Break
3.50-4.50 PM	W3: Technical Session	Distributed Computing