Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar, who is Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow in our group, has recently been selected as the new Chairman of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

The IEEE Information Theory Society is a pre-eminent community promoting and supporting the scientific area of information theory. Information theory encompasses the processing, transmission, storage, and use of information, and the foundations of the communication process. Specific topics include Shannon Theory, coding theory, source coding, sequential analysis and applied probability, among others.