Interested authors are invited to submit papers describing novel and previously unpublished results on topics in information theory and its applications, including, but not limited to: Error Control Coding Coded Modulation Communication Systems Detection and Estimation Spread Spectrum Systems Signal Processing Rate-Distortion Theory Stochastic Processes Network Coding Shannon Theory Coding Theory and Practice Data Compression and Source Coding Data Storage Mobile Communications Pattern Recognition and Learning Speech/Image Coding Multi-Terminal Information Theory Cryptography and Data Security Applications of Information Theory Quantum Information Theory